For the Artificial intelligencehe real Madrid the new one will not win Champions League. The current European champion is not the top favorite, according to the AI. On the other hand, who will win the tournament – which is launching a new format – will be Manchester Citywhich was the champion two seasons ago and was eliminated last year by Real Madrid itself in the quarterfinals.
According to the supercomputer Optit will be the team coached by Pep Guardiola who wins the next edition of the Champions League, a tournament that changes format and leaves behind the traditional group stage to make a kind of league in which 36 teams will be in the same classification. This new European Cup starts this coming Tuesday, September 17.
Thus, for Artificial Intelligence, Manchester City is the favorite to win the Champions League, with 25.3% options. That is, the English team has a 1/4 chance of winning the trophy and the remaining 3/4 is shared by the rest of the 35 teams. Of that rest, Real Madrid is the one who has the most options, according to this technology. However, the white club, current champion, gives 18.2% chance of winning the competition. That is, 7% fewer options than Manchester City. Artificial Intelligence seems to have not yet understood what Real Madrid is in the European Cup.
After these two teams, which evidently are once again the top favorites for victory like last year, a third club appears that surprises the world of football. According to Artificial Intelligence, the third top favorite to win the new Champions League is… Inter Milan. It gives the Italians – runners-up in 2023 – 10.9%, above other clubs in Europe such as Arsenal (6.3%), Bayer Leverkusen (5.4%) and Barcelona (5.2%),
Thus, the Catalans are the sixth favorites to win the trophy (which is equivalent to being eliminated in the quarterfinals), even below Bayer Leverkusen. But for Artificial Intelligence, the group trained by Xabi Alonsocurrent German champion, is more favorite in the Champions League than a classic like the Bayern Munich (eighth, with 4.1%) or another great European team like Liverpool (seventh favorite, with 4.2%). In ninth place is the Paris Saint-Germainwhich is only given a 4.1% chance of winning the new European Cup.
To justify that City is the top favorite, Artificial Intelligence, through this Opta supercomputer, explains that “excluding penalty shootouts, they have not lost in their last 23 games in the Champions League, with 16 wins, and If it avoids defeat in its first two games of the 2024-25 season, it will equal the longest unbeaten streak by a team in the history of the tournament.
Regarding Real Madrid, he explains that “incorporating Mbappe “to a team that has won the Champions League is a formidable challenge for the other contenders” and points out that it has a 48.9% chance of being in the semifinals for five consecutive seasons and a 31.6% chance of being a finalist.
