AFCON Winner Predictions (2021)
Opta's website, which specializes in statistics and numbers, released its expectations of the candidate teams to win the African Nations Cup, which kicks off in Cameroon today, Sunday.
Opta relied in its predictions on the numbers and data related to the results of the matches played by each team in the Black Continent Championship, up to the final, and these numbers and data were processed by an artificial intelligence model.
According to the statistics published by the British website through its official Twitter account, Nigeria topped the list with 14.79%, followed by Morocco in second place with 14.77%, and then the Egyptian team in third place. with 12.93%, Algeria in sixth place with 8.15%.
According to the AI rankings, here are Opta's predictions for the teams' chances of winning the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon:
1-Nigeria National Team (14.79%)
2-Morocco National Team (14.77%)
3 Egypt national team (12.93%)
4-Senegal (12.23%)
5-Côte d'Ivoire, "Ivory Coast" (8.27%)
6-Algeria national team (8.15%)
7-Tunisia national team (7.88%)
8-Ghana national team (7.31%)
9-Mali national team (3.26%)
10-Cameroon national team (2.87%)