{"id":873,"date":"2026-03-19T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=873"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:00:12","slug":"opta-supercomputer-makes-arsenal-champions-league-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Opta supercomputer makes Arsenal Champions League favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>The supercomputer at data-boffins Opta has predicted there will be a first-time Champions League winner this season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the competition reaches the quarter-finals, Arsenal have been made favourites to win the Champions League for the first time in their history. The Gunners will take on another non-winner in the quarter-finals, in Sporting Lisbon, who have reached the last eight for the first time since 1983.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Arsenal are calculated as a 29.73% chance to win the 2026 Champions League by Opta. That\u2019s comfortably clear of Bayern Munich, who are regarded as second-favourites with a 18.33% probability.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool, who face holders Paris Saint-Germain in a tough quarter-final tie, are considered only sixth favourites for the trophy at just 7.12%.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Opta supercomputer Champions League favourites<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Arsenal \u2013 29.73%<\/li>\n<li>Bayern Munich \u2013 18.33%<\/li>\n<li>Barcelona \u2013 15.66%<\/li>\n<li>Paris St-Germain \u2013 11.87%<\/li>\n<li>Real Madrid \u2013 9.85%<\/li>\n<li>Liverpool \u2013 7.12%<\/li>\n<li>Atletico \u2013 4.41%<\/li>\n<li>Sporting \u2013 3.03%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Champions League Team of the Week \u2013 Raphinha, Rice, Kane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Champions League Awards \u2013 Ruthless Raphinha, Sporting stun Bodo<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook | Instagram | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supercomputer at data-boffins Opta has predicted there will be a first-time Champions League winner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}