The Matchday
Conference League matchday 2: what do form, goals and margins tell us?
The 18 matches on 22 October: Brighton and Trabzonspor on 4 goals, Atalanta on 3 points and margins with different coverage. Form covers only the opener; head-to-head records are missing.
Published 19 October 2026
The 18 matches on 22 October come after just one game per team: Brighton & Hove Albion and Trabzonspor have scored 4 goals each, while Atalanta are fourth on 3 points. Standings and form cover the whole round; we do not cite head-to-head records because they are missing from the archive consulted.
The market feed covers 17 of the 18 matches: Red Star Belgrade-F.C. København is missing. Odds load from the feed in the matchday table below, alongside the reading time.
What the margin measures, operator by operator
The margin measures the overall markup on the full-time result market. The medians describe different samples: the Matches column shows coverage across the round.
| Operator | Matches | Median margin | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netwin | 16 of 18 | 8.07% | 7.65% | 8.35% |
| Betflag | 16 of 18 | 8.11% | 7.08% | 9.33% |
| Betsson | 17 of 18 | 8.72% | 7.92% | 9.48% |
| bwin | 10 of 18 | 9.66% | 8.64% | 10.46% |
Recorded on 19 October 2026 at 20:45, Italian time. These margins belong to that reading; the odds table updates from the feed.
The like-for-like comparison covers only the 10 matches with every outcome available from the same four operators. Within this group, Betflag has the lowest margin on 6 matches, Netwin on 3 and Betsson on 1.
Across these same 10 matches, the gap between the highest and lowest margin runs from 0.73 percentage points on Jablonec-Brighton & Hove Albion to 3.38 on Ajax Amsterdam-Atalanta. Inter D'Escaldes-CSU Craiova has only one operator available, so there is no comparison.
Form covers only the opener
Positions, points and goals come from ESPN. Every team has just one match in the available standings and form records: a win, draw or defeat describes only the opener. Goal averages reflect that single result.
The previous round's preview: Conference League matchday 1: what do the numbers tell us?
Brighton and Trabzonspor: 4 goals each
They are the round's highest-scoring sides. In Jablonec-Brighton & Hove Albion, the visitors are first on 3 points, with 4 goals scored and 0 conceded; Jablonec have 0 points, with 2 scored and 3 conceded.
Trabzonspor-Heart of Midlothian: the hosts are third on 3 points, with 4 goals scored and 2 conceded. The visitors drew their opener, scoring 1 and conceding 1.
Ajax Amsterdam-Atalanta: different starts
Atalanta are fourth on 3 points, with 3 goals scored and 1 conceded. Ajax are twenty-fifth on 0 points, with 1 scored and 2 conceded. The name Ajax Amsterdam is not matched in the archive, so we do not cite previous meetings.
The other fixtures, briefly
- Kairat Almaty-Panathinaikos — 1 point against 3: Kairat opened with a draw, Panathinaikos with a win.
- FC Nordsjælland-CSKA Sofia — 1 point against 0, with each side scoring 1 goal in their opener.
- Getafe-FC Lugano — Getafe have 1 point and 1 goal scored; Lugano have 3 points and 3 goals scored.
- Iberia 1999-Mjällby AIF — Iberia have 0 points; Mjällby have 3, with 2 goals scored and 0 conceded.
- Inter D'Escaldes-CSU Craiova — Inter lost their opener without scoring; Craiova drew, scoring 1 and conceding 1.
- Kauno Zalgiris-SK Brann — 0 points against 3. Kauno have conceded 4 goals, Brann 1.
- Pafos-Riga FC — Pafos lost, scoring 1 and conceding 3; Riga drew, scoring and conceding 1.
- Red Star Belgrade-F.C. København — 0 points against 3. København are second, with 3 goals scored and 0 conceded.
- AGF-Egnatia — AGF have 0 points and 0 goals scored; Egnatia have 1 point after a draw.
- AS Monaco-SC Freiburg — both have 3 points: Monaco are ninth, Freiburg seventh. They scored 2 and 3 goals respectively.
- Borac Banja Luka-KuPS Kuopio — both have 0 points. Borac have conceded 2 goals, KuPS 4.
- Braga-KAA Gent — Braga lost, scoring 0 and conceding 3; Gent won without conceding.
- FC Midtjylland-Sint-Truidense — 1 point against 3. Sint-Truidense have scored 2 goals and conceded 0.
- FC Thun-Hajduk Split — Thun lost without scoring; Hajduk won, scoring 2 and conceding 1.
- Lincoln Red Imps-FC Twente — 0 points against 3. Twente have scored 1 goal and conceded 0.
This matchday's odds, right now
Available odds for the round, read from the official feeds when the page opens. The outcome-by-outcome comparison across operators is on the odds page.
No match from this competition is in the listing right now.
How to read these numbers
Mjällby, Brighton, København, Gent, Sint-Truidense and Twente have conceded the fewest goals among the round's teams, all on 0; Kauno and KuPS have conceded 4, the highest figure in the round. The sample remains just one match.
The openfootball archive returns no head-to-head records for any of the 18 fixtures; some team names are not matched. This is a limitation of the available data. Margins come from the operators' official feeds via api.oddsonar.com.
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