Supercomputer backs Sporting for Champions League quarters, surprise revealed | OneFootball

The Opta Sports supercomputer has made a new projection for the outcome of the Champions League and points to Arsenal as the main favorite to win the competition. As for Sporting, apparently, the lions have a strong chance of advancing past the 'round of 16' and are more favored to reach the final than... Real Madrid.

According to the presented calculations, the Gunners have a 26.7% probability of winning the final that will be held in Budapest. The analysis also recalls that Arsenal is the team with the most games in the history of the competition without ever having won the trophy.

Completing the top-5 candidates for victory are, in order, Bayern Munich (16.4%), Liverpool (11.4%), Manchester City (11.1%), and Barcelona (9.7%). Interestingly, the current titleholder, PSG, appears only in seventh place, with a 4.3% chance of repeating the triumph.

As for Sporting's journey, the forecast points to the lions as favorites in the tie against Bodø/Glimt. According to Opta, the Portuguese team has a 63.2% probability of reaching the quarter-finals. The possibility of reaching the semi-finals was estimated at 24.6%, considering that the next opponent could be Arsenal or Bayer Leverkusen.

In fact, one of the most curious data points of the projection is the probability of reaching the final of the millionaire competition: Rui Borges' Sporting appears with 3.1%, a value higher than that attributed to Real Madrid, which appears with only 1.9%.

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