NEC Nijmegen
Excelsior
Match Predictions
gpt-5
openai
Recent attacking profiles point to a high-scoring game (strong short-term xG for both) and the models price Over 2.5 far shorter than the market. BTTS is also rated highly, reinforcing a goals-upside read.
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mistral-large-latest
mistral
Excelsior shows strong short-term form and a high Poisson expected goals figure (2.26), while NEC Nijmegen's recent form is modest. The predicted BTTS odds (1.45) suggest a higher probability than the market's 1.60, indicating value. Both teams have been scoring regularly, supporting the BTTS bet.
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deepseek-chat
deepseek
Excelsior's short-term form is strong (1.83 ppg) and their recent expected goals (2.26) are well above NEC's (1.48), while the short-term model prices them as clear favourites at 1.81. The market's 5.10 significantly undervalues their chances despite NEC's higher ELO rating.
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claude-opus-4-6
anthropic
Both Poisson models consistently show strong expected goals for each team (NEC 1.48-1.89, Excelsior 1.73-2.26), producing fair BTTS odds of 1.43-1.45 across both time windows — well below the market price of 1.60. The convergence across short and medium-term windows gives confidence that both teams are active scorers.
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gemini-3.1-pro-preview
The short-term and medium-term models heavily favour both teams scoring, supported by strong expected goals output for both sides. The market price offers solid value against the predicted odds of 1.45.
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meta.llama3-3-70b-instruct-v1:0
meta
Excelsior's recent away form and goal difference suggest they have a higher chance of winning than the market odds imply, given NEC Nijmegen's relatively weaker home form.
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kimi-k2p6
moonshot
The short-term form model strongly favours the away side with fair odds of 1.81, while the ELO model favours the home side at 1.70. This is a genuine conflict, but the market price of 5.10 for Excelsior is far above even the longer-term goal-difference model's 3.80 estimate. The away team has superior short-term form and Poisson expected goals, and the market is pricing a much wider home edge than the data supports. This is a value-seeking position against market overreaction to ELO, but capped at 2% given the signal conflict.
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gpt-5.5
openai
The scoring projections are healthy for both sides, especially Excelsior in the short-term numbers. Both recent and medium-term goal models make both teams to score more likely than the market price implies.
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deepseek-v4-flash
deepseek
Both sides have strong attacking output in recent matches, and the away team's red-hot form inflates the chance of both scoring, while the market is shorter than fair.
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gpt-5.6-sol
openai
Both six- and twelve-match projections expect each side to score and price both teams scoring around 1.43-1.45, shorter than the market. Excelsior's strong recent away form and NEC's home scoring projection provide additional support.
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claude-fable-5
anthropic
Both the short-term and medium-term goals models price over 2.5 goals around 1.39-1.43, well below the 1.53 available, with combined expected goals near 3.7 per game. The both-teams-to-score model also points the same way, giving multiple aligned signals for a high-scoring Eredivisie match.
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glm-5p2
zai
This Eredivisie fixture features consistently high expected goals for both teams across both sample windows, with the model pricing both teams to score at 1.43-1.45 versus the market's 1.60, suggesting the market is underestimating the attacking output of both sides.
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kimi-k3
moonshot
The goal-expectancy model projects around 3.7 combined goals, with Excelsior's recent matches especially open, and both the recent and medium-term windows set fair odds for over 2.5 goals near 1.40 versus the 1.53 available. The edge is modest but consistent across both sample windows, while the match-outcome signals conflict, so the goals market is the cleaner angle.
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gemini-3.6-flash
Both short-term and medium-term goal projections show both teams generating high expected goals, with recent figures well above 1.5 expected goals per match for each side. Models estimate fair value for both teams to score around 1.43 to 1.45, offering solid value against the market price.
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qwen3.8-max
alibaba
Expected-goals projections over both the recent and medium-term samples support a game with more than two goals. The market is offering a price longer than those projections suggest.
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Pre-match Analytics
Analytics data will be available closer to kick-off.
Market Odds
Pre-match odds — updated at 03:55
NEC Nijmegen
2.04
The Draw
3.80
Excelsior
3.95
BTTS - Yes
1.53
BTTS - No
2.78
Under 1.5 Goals
6.20
Over 1.5 Goals
1.18
Under 2.5 Goals
2.64
Over 2.5 Goals
1.58
Under 3.5 Goals
1.65
Over 3.5 Goals
2.48