The Matchday
Europa League matchday 4 in numbers: form, goals and margins match by match
Eighteen matches on 4 and 5 November: five sides on 9 points, Benfica on 10 goals, and operator margins that need to be read alongside coverage.
Published 30 October 2026
Europa League matchday four takes place on 4 and 5 November. Benfica, Bayer Leverkusen, AFC Bournemouth, Ferencvaros and Olympiacos have 9 points after 3 matches: all wins. Benfica have the round's highest-scoring attack, with 10 goals; Bayer have its tightest defence, with 0 conceded.
We have standings, form and margins for all 18 fixtures. Usable head-to-head records are missing, so we do not cite them. The football data comes from ESPN; margins come from official operator feeds via api.oddsonar.com. Odds load from the feed in the match table below.
Margins: why coverage matters
The margin measures the cost built into the full-time result market. Median, minimum and maximum refer to each operator's available matches: the samples differ in size.
| Operator | Matches | Median margin | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Betsson | 18 | 6.56% | 5.72% | 7.66% |
| Netwin | 16 | 6.94% | 6.09% | 7.3% |
| Betflag | 16 | 7.06% | 6.09% | 8.47% |
| bwin | 2 | 5.43% | 4.53% | 6.33% |
Recorded on 30 October 2026 at 18:10, Italian time. Only Betsson covers all 18 matches, so the medians do not describe a shared sample.
To compare gaps, we use only the 2 matches with prices for all three outcomes from the same four operators: Betsson, Netwin, Betflag and bwin. The smallest gap is 0.56 percentage points on Crystal Palace-TSG Hoffenheim; the largest is 2.77 on Benfica-Lech Poznan. These are the extremes within this group, not the whole round. In both, bwin records the lowest margin among these operators. Hapoel Be'er-OFI Crete has only one operator available: there is no gap to measure.
The previous round in numbers: Europa League matchday 3: what do form, goals and margins tell us?
Five sides on 9 points, five different matches
Stade Rennais-Olympiacos opens the round on 4 November. The hosts have 5 points, the visitors 9; both have scored 4 goals. Olympiacos have conceded 1, Stade Rennais 3.
AC Milan-Ferencvaros: Milan are 24th on 3 points, Ferencvaros 4th on 9. The form record shows one win and two defeats for Milan, three wins for the visitors. They have scored 4 and 9 goals respectively.
Sparta Prague-AFC Bournemouth: Sparta are 16th on 4 points, Bournemouth 3rd on 9. The visitors have scored 8 goals and conceded 1.
Bayer Leverkusen-Marseille pairs sides on 9 and 0 points. Bayer have scored 8 goals without conceding; Marseille have lost all 3 matches, scoring 1 and conceding 6.
Benfica-Lech Poznan: Benfica are first on 9 points, with 10 goals scored and 2 conceded. Lech are 32nd on 1 point, with 1 goal scored and 9 conceded.
AZ Alkmaar-Juventus: 6 points against 7
AZ are 10th on 6 points, Juventus 7th on 7. Both have two wins: AZ also have a defeat, Juventus a draw. Goals scored and conceded are 6 and 2 for AZ, 9 and 3 for Juventus.
The other matches, briefly
- Anderlecht-RB Salzburg — 22nd and 21st, with 3 and 4 points.
- Crystal Palace-TSG Hoffenheim — 4 points against 3; both have conceded 5 goals.
- Levski Sofia-Jagiellonia Bialystok — 4 points against 3, goals conceded 3 against 6.
- Lillestrom-Viktoria Plzen — 1 point against 0. Viktoria have lost all 3 matches.
- NEC Nijmegen-Omonia Nicosia — 4 points against 6; both have scored 5 goals.
- Real Sociedad-Lyon — 4 points against 6, goals scored 8 against 5.
- Celta Vigo-Union St.-Gilloise — 3 points against 7. Union have conceded 1 goal.
- Celtic-Besiktas — Celtic have 0 points, Besiktas 7. Goals conceded are 9 and 5.
- Hapoel Be'er-OFI Crete — 1 point against 3, goals scored 1 against 3.
- SK Sturm Graz-NK Celje — 4 points against 1, goals conceded 3 against 7.
- Sunderland-Dinamo Zagreb — 7 points against 4. Sunderland have two wins and a draw.
- Torreense-Ararat-Armenia — 3 points against 0. Ararat have the round's leakiest defence: 11 goals conceded.
This matchday's odds, right now
Odds for the 18 matches load from official feeds when the page opens. The outcome-by-outcome comparison across operators is on the odds page.
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How to read these numbers
Standings and form cover just 3 Europa League matches: a few results can shift positions and averages. Superlatives refer to teams in this round. The openfootball archive provides no usable head-to-head records for these fixtures; some clubs also lack a matching archive name. This is a limitation of the available data, not a complete history of past meetings.
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