“Maybe we are lucky,” said Arne Slot, after his Liverpool team was unloaded by Paris Saint-Germain from the Champions League in the middle of the week.
The chances had certainly been favor before this unexpected penalty shootout in Liverpools. After strolling on the summit of the opening league phase, table, Opta Supercomputer was not the only outlet that made the red favorites to win overall competition.
Regardless of whether it was an accident or missed opportunities, Liverpool will not act for the quarter -finals. But which of the eight pages that will occur with excitement in April will occur the big-ear trophy?
PSG Possibly ended up in the league phase table under Milan and PSV Eindhoven, but their newly discovered status as a conqueror of Liverpool has swollen their chances of winning the club’s first Champions League title. The freely flowing French giants by Luis Enrique are loud favorites of the second favorites OptaJust behind the former employers of the Spanish trainer, Barcelona.
The Catalan giants passed Benfica in the 16th round and on what is generally considered the lighter half of the draw. Before Hansi Flick’s side competes against one from Bayern Munich or Inter, she is preparing for a quarter -finals Borussia Dortmund. The Bundesliga fighters – they won as many league games as they lost this season – are outsiders to take one step better than last season when they were beaten in the final of Real Madrid and only have a 1% chance on continental -Ruhm.
Aston Villa It doesn’t go much better in Opta 10,000 simulations of the remaining games of the competition. The Unai Emery team allegedly only has a 2.8% chance of winning the whole thing. You have to pass this in-form literation of PSG in the quarters, a discouraging view that Emery referred to as a “big, big challenge” against his former club.
arsenal And real Madrid are also on the hard side of the draw. Surprisingly, the Gunners have a better chance of winning their first European trophy than 15 times the master. The side of Mikel Arteta, who may be able to welcome Bukayo Saka for at least the second leg, is given the advantage in a highly expected quarter -finals against Real.
Write Madrid at your risk. The defending European champion made a tense and controversial linking of Last-16 against Atletico Madrid by demanding all their grain. When Jew Bellingham beamed: “We are very good at finding a way.”
Inter are also seen as a Real Madrid as a likely winner of Europe’s greatest price. The defending champions of series A meet other continental giants Bayern Munich In the next round with an easy advantage.
However, Madrid can never be overlooked. When it was brought to Atletico’s Diego Simeone that this version of his arch -rival was relatively poor, the Argentine coach shot back: “I think you are very hard in an incredible team: Mbappe, Vinicius, Bellingham, Brahim, Valverde, Rodrygo.
You have the opportunity to prove this status again in the coming months.
Rank – team | Probability of winning the Champions League |
|---|---|
1 – Barcelona | 20.4% |
2 – PSG | 19.3% |
3 – Arsenal | 16.8% |
4 – Inter | 16.4% |
5 – Real Madrid | 13.6% |
6 – Bayern Munich | 9.7% |
7 – Aston Villa | 2.8% |
8 – Borussia Dortmund | 1% |