The Matchday
Europa League matchday 2: what do form, head-to-heads and margins show?
The 18 matches on 15 October: Juventus have 5 goals, form covers just one game, and margins are comparable across a shared sample of 13 fixtures.
Published 9 October 2026
Juventus are first with 3 points and have the round's best attack, with 5 goals. Across the 18 fixtures on 15 October, standings and form describe the opening game: every team has played just one Europa League match.
Margins also need a consistent sample: the match-by-match comparison covers the 13 fixtures available from Netwin, Betsson and Betflag together. Available head-to-head records cover only Salzburg-Milan and date from 2022.
The margin, operator by operator
The margin measures the markup built into the full-time result market. Medians describe each operator's own sample, and coverage varies: the Matches column shows how many fixtures enter each summary.
| Operator | Matches | Median margin | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Betsson | 17 | 6.66% | 6.05% | 7.26% |
| Netwin | 13 | 7.01% | 6.65% | 7.33% |
| Betflag | 17 | 9.01% | 6.44% | 9.88% |
Recorded on 9 October 2026 at 14:49, Italian time. These are the margins from that reading: the odds table further down shows current prices.
Across the 13 shared fixtures, Betsson has the lowest margin in 8, Netwin in 4 (level with Betsson on Lyon-Crystal Palace) and Betflag in one, Celta-Juventus. We compare gaps only within this group, with all three outcomes available from the same operators: the smallest gap is 0.76 percentage points, on Salzburg-Milan and on Celta-Juventus, the largest 2.99 on Union Saint-Gilloise-Real Sociedad. Fixtures with reduced coverage are excluded from this comparison.
Standings and form after just one match
The previous round, with the figures and margins measured then: Europa League, the matchday in numbers: what we can measure and what we can't
Celta Vigo-Juventus: Celta are 26th with 0 points, 0 goals scored and 1 conceded. Juventus won their opener, scoring 5 and conceding 0, level with the round's other least-conceding defences. Available form records one defeat for Celta and one win for Juventus.
Salzburg-Milan: Salzburg are 14th on 3 points, Milan 29th on 0. The archive holds 2 meetings, both in the Champions League: 1-1 on 6 September 2022 and Milan's 4-0 win on 2 November 2022. Both belong to another cup competition.
Lyon-Crystal Palace: both won and have 3 points, sitting 11th and 2nd. Lyon scored 2 goals and conceded 1; Palace scored 4 without conceding.
The other fixtures, briefly
- AZ Alkmaar-Hapoel Be'er Sheva — AZ are 25th on 0 points after a defeat; Hapoel 18th on 1 after a draw.
- Lech Poznan-Bayer Leverkusen — 35th against 8th, 0 points against 3. Lech conceded 4 goals, Bayer 0.
- Celje-Omonia Nicosia — Celje are 30th on 0 points, Omonia 15th on 3. Goals scored: 0 against 1.
- Sparta Prague-Lillestrøm — Sparta are 3rd on 3 points with 4 goals scored; Lillestrøm 23rd on 0 with 1 goal.
- Torreense-Sunderland — 12th and 16th, both on 3 points after a win. Goals conceded: 1 and 0.
- Union Saint-Gilloise-Real Sociedad — Union are 5th on 3 points, Real 24th on 0. Union scored 3 without conceding.
- Bournemouth-Sturm Graz — Bournemouth are 10th on 3 points after a win; Sturm 20th on 1 after a draw.
- Benfica-Celtic — Benfica are 7th on 3 points, Celtic 28th on 0. Goals scored are 2 and 1 respectively.
- Dinamo Zagreb-Anderlecht — Dinamo are 17th on 1 point after a draw; Anderlecht 22nd on 0 after a defeat.
- Ferencvaros-Viktoria Plzen — 6th against 34th, 3 points against 0. Ferencvaros scored 3 goals, Viktoria conceded 3.
- Jagiellonia Bialystok-Ararat-Armenia — 21st and 33rd, both on 0 points; goals conceded: 2 against 4.
- Marseille-Olympiacos — Marseille are 32nd on 0 points with 4 goals conceded; Olympiacos 13th on 3 with 1 conceded.
- NEC-Levski Sofia — NEC are 36th and Levski 27th, both on 0 points. NEC have the round's leakiest defence: 5 conceded.
- Rennes-OFI Crete — Rennes are 19th on 1 point, OFI 9th on 3. Both have conceded 0 goals.
- Hoffenheim-Besiktas — Hoffenheim are 31st on 0 points; Besiktas 4th on 3. Goals scored: 0 against 4.
This matchday's odds, right now
Odds for these matches, read now from the official feeds. The outcome-by-outcome comparison across all operators is on the odds page.
No match from this competition is in the listing right now.
Sources and limits
Standings and form come from ESPN; over just one match, goal averages equal the goals in the opener. Head-to-heads come from the openfootball archive: we have none for the other fixtures, so we do not cite them. Some team names are not yet matched to the archive: a gap does not mean the two sides have never met. Margins come from official operator feeds via api.oddsonar.com.
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