Champions sprint, artificial intelligence delivers its verdict
The Champions race has reached the point where every detail weighs like a boulder. Five teams in five points, two days to live holding your breath, a margin for error that is thinning until it disappears. We asked artificial intelligence to simulate the last 180 minutes, and what emerges is a story of fits and starts, nerves of steel and small episodes that can change everything.
Napoli is the team that sees the most light ahead. The calendar (Pisa away and Udinese at home) smiles on the Azzurri, and the simulation confirms it: Antonio Conte’s team, according to the AI, will do its homework, thus securing the necessary points to secure second place and face the path in Europe’s top competition for the second year in a row.
Juventus will experience, according to the simulation, a more complex sprint, but with a satisfactory result for the Bianconeri colors. Fiorentina at home, the derby away: two games that can turn into traps, but Juve will stay upright according to the algorithms, bringing home what it will need: qualification will come with a one-point lead over the first of the excluded.
According to the algorithms, Milan is the team walking a tightrope. At Marassi against Genoa, according to the AI, it will suffer by snatching a point, then closing at San Siro with a victory against Cagliari: that will be enough to get the better of Roma, which for the simulation will draw the derby and close with a success in Verona, finishing on equal points with the Rossoneri but staying behind them because of direct defeats against them.
The computer does not give hope, finally, to Como: the simulation speaks of a draw with Parma and a success with Cremonese for 69 final points that will not be enough to give the first historic participation in the maximum European competition.
To sum up, according to the artificial intelligence the three teams that will accompany Inter to the Champions League will be Napoli (85% chance of qualification), Juventus (75%) and Milan (55%). Roma (35%) out by a whisker, Como (20%) further back.
