There are people who spend their Mondays analysing whether Manchester City can beat a team that hasn’t won since August.
Then there are people who build their own football prediction app and find themselves investigating Malaysian cup results, Korean attacking midfielders and the possibility of torrential rain in Pohang.
I’m still the second kind.
Monday Madness was one thing. Now we’re back for Terrible Tuesday.
The arrangement remains simple. My primitive self built app examines recent results, produces football betting predictions and identifies potentially interesting markets. I then look at the actual football, because a computer doesn’t necessarily understand why a 10-0 victory over Malaysian cup opposition might not translate into continental success.
This Tuesday, 13 October 2026, we’re heading to the AFC Champions League Elite for three fixtures involving clubs from Japan, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia and China.
There are goals everywhere, apparently.
Kyoto Sanga vs Ratchaburi: The Thai Team Have Apparently Forgotten How to Play Normal Football
Ratchaburi have developed a rather entertaining relationship with goals.
Their most recent match finished 6-0 in their favour, which would ordinarily be enough to suggest that their attacking players are enjoying themselves.
But look back to their previous AFC Champions League Elite encounter and things become considerably more ridiculous.
They lost 6-4.
Ten goals in a single football match. Six conceded, four scored, and presumably a few defenders wondering whether they’d accidentally turned up to play basketball.
At this point, Ratchaburi seem less interested in controlling football matches than ensuring absolutely everybody gets an opportunity to score.
Kyoto Sanga haven’t been quite so extravagant, but they’ll surely fancy their chances against Thai opposition, particularly with Rafael Elias providing a reliable attacking threat.
The Brazilian has recorded five goals and three assists in nine appearances, making him the obvious player to watch if Kyoto are going to take advantage of Ratchaburi’s defensive generosity.
And that’s where my app becomes interested.
It identifies Over 1.5 goals as the market worth considering, with recent results suggesting that two goals across 90 minutes is a perfectly reasonable expectation.
Ratchaburi have demonstrated they can score plenty and concede even more. Kyoto possess attacking quality of their own and should approach this fixture believing they can win.
Of course, Ratchaburi could suddenly discover defensive organisation and ruin everybody’s entertainment.
But given their recent adventures, I’m not particularly convinced.
Pohang Steelers vs Johor Darul Ta’zim: Can They Do It on a Rainy Tuesday Night in Pohang?
Pohang Steelers aren’t having a particularly enjoyable time.
One victory in their last five matches is disappointing enough, but their most recent outing brought a 3-0 defeat against Incheon United.
That result dropped them into the bottom six of South Korea’s 12-team K League 1.
Not ideal.
Johor Darul Ta’zim, meanwhile, have developed a taste for putting footballs into opposition nets.
Their Malaysian FA Cup performances have been particularly entertaining, with September producing victories by scorelines of 7-2 and 10-0.
Ten.
There comes a point when scoring goals stops being an attacking achievement and starts looking rather inconsiderate.
Naturally, there is an important distinction between dismantling domestic cup opposition and travelling to South Korea for an AFC Champions League Elite fixture.
And that brings us to the most important question.
Can Johor do it on a rainy Tuesday night in Pohang?
The forecast suggests a 90% chance of rain, winds of approximately 11km/h and humidity reaching 93%.
It’s hardly the sort of weather that encourages a pleasant evening of sightseeing.
Still, my app isn’t particularly concerned about the meteorological situation.
It favours Over 2.5 goals, supported by the recent scoring patterns of both teams. The model’s supplied data indicates that 80% of the relevant recent matches reached that threshold.
Pohang are conceding. Johor are scoring.
The obvious question is whether Johor’s domestic attacking dominance will survive the step up in opposition, particularly away from home.
Equally, Pohang’s defensive struggles suggest the Malaysian visitors might not need to reproduce another ten-goal performance to contribute to an entertaining evening.
Three goals between them will do.
Preferably before everybody gets completely soaked.
Shanghai Port vs Daejeon Citizen: Birmingham’s Loss, Korean Football’s Gain
Lee Myung-jae has been one of the more productive creative players in Korean football this season.
The Daejeon Citizen player has recorded 11 assists in K League 1, an impressive contribution from somebody who has also represented South Korea on ten occasions.
He even had a brief adventure in English football with Birmingham City.
That lasted only a few months before he departed the West Midlands.
Who can blame him? I wouldn’t particularly want to live in Birmingham either.
Back in South Korea, however, Lee has been creating opportunities with remarkable consistency, and his ability to supply teammates could be particularly important against Shanghai Port.
The Chinese side possess an exciting attacking player of their own in Ghanaian forward Prince Obeng Ampem.
Ampem joined Shanghai Port on loan in February 2026 and has already produced one of the more extraordinary individual performances of this AFC Champions League Elite campaign.
Against Ratchaburi in September, he scored a first-half hat-trick during a 6-4 victory.
Yes, Ratchaburi again.
Apparently, they’re determined to feature in every discussion about goals in Asian football.
With Lee supplying chances for Daejeon and Ampem demonstrating his ability to finish them for Shanghai, this fixture has the ingredients for an entertaining contest.
My app agrees.
Although Shanghai Port are considered favourites, the more interesting prediction concerns Both Teams to Score: Yes.
The model identifies a strong possibility of both sides finding the net, partly because their recent defensive records suggest neither can be entirely trusted to keep a clean sheet.
Lee’s creativity gives Daejeon a route into the match, while Ampem has already demonstrated that he doesn’t require an entire 90 minutes to make an enormous impact.
Shanghai might be favourites, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll have everything their own way.
And if Ampem produces another hat-trick, perhaps somebody should investigate whether Ratchaburi have accidentally followed him to China.
Terrible Tuesday: Three Matches, Three Markets
Three AFC Champions League Elite fixtures, three statistical suggestions and another opportunity to discover whether my homemade prediction app knows anything useful about football.
Kyoto vs Ratchaburi offers the prospect of goals, largely because the Thai visitors appear incapable of participating in an uneventful match.
Pohang vs Johor provides an interesting examination of whether domestic attacking dominance translates into continental football, preferably without everybody needing a change of clothes afterwards.
And Shanghai Port vs Daejeon Citizen brings together two attacking talents who could make life rather uncomfortable for the opposition defenders.
For anybody searching for football betting tips or the best soccer betting odds, I’m not offering guarantees or directing you towards a bookmaker.
I’m simply identifying markets that caught my attention.
If you fancy following one, wonderful. If not, you can still enjoy the football.
There are plenty of soccer betting tips online promising that somebody has discovered a foolproof formula.
I haven’t.
I’ve built an app, given it some football statistics and asked it to make predictions.
Sometimes it’ll be right. Sometimes it’ll be spectacularly wrong.
And occasionally, a Thai football team will participate in a ten-goal thriller and make the whole exercise considerably more entertaining than expected.
See you next Tuesday.
