For the Artificial intelligencehe the real Madrid the new one will not win Champions League. The current European champion is not the big favorite, according to the AI. On the other hand, the one who wins the tournament – which launches a new format – will be Manchester Citywho were champions two seasons ago and were eliminated last year by Real Madrid themselves in the quarter-finals.
According to the supercomputer OptIt will be the team coached by Pep Guardiola that will win the next edition of the Champions League, a tournament that changes format and abandons the traditional group stage to make a sort of league in which 36 teams will be in the same ranking. This new European Cup begins this Tuesday, September 17.
So, for Artificial Intelligence, Manchester City is the favorite to win the Champions League, with 25.3% options. In other words, the English team has a 1/4 chance of winning the trophy and the remaining 3/4 are shared by the rest of the 35 teams. Of this remainder, Real Madrid is the one with the most options, according to this technology. However, the white club, current champion, gives 18.2% chance of winning the contest. That’s 7% fewer options than Manchester City. Artificial intelligence doesn’t seem to have figured out what Real Madrid is in the European Cup yet.
After these two teams, which are obviously once again the big favorites to win like last year, a third club appears that surprises the world of football. According to artificial intelligence, the third favorite to win the new Champions League is… Inter Milan. This gives the Italians – finalists in 2023 – 10.9%, above other European clubs like Arsenal (6.3%), Bayer Leverkusen (5.4%) and Barcelona (5.2%),
Thus, the Catalans are the sixth favorite to win the trophy (which is equivalent to being eliminated in the quarter-finals), even behind Bayer Leverkusen. But for Artificial Intelligence, the group formed by Xabi Alonsocurrent German champion, is more favourite for the Champions League than a classic like the Bayern Munich (eighth, with 4.1%) or another big European team like Liverpool (seventh favorite, with 4.2%). In ninth place is the Paris Saint-Germainwho only has a 4.1% chance of winning the new European Cup.
To justify that City are the big favourites, Artificial Intelligence, through this Opta supercomputer, explains that “excluding penalties, they have not lost in their last 23 Champions League games, with 16 wins, and if they avoid defeat in their first two games of the 2024-25 season, it will equal the longest unbeaten streak of a team in the history of the tournament.
Regarding Real Madrid, he explains that “the integration Mbappe “For a team that has won the Champions League, it is a formidable challenge for the other contenders” and he points out that it has a 48.9% chance of being in the semi-finals for five consecutive seasons and a 31.6% chance of being a finalist.
