Predicting the Champions League: Bayern will be next year, Liverpool will be the next year, and then Manchester City will win two championships again. Is it credible?

With the 2024-2025 season coming to an end, there are only 4 suspense left in the European football world this season. - the Serie A champion, the Champions League/European Union/European Union champion.

Among them, the match between Paris vs Inter Milan in the Champions League final is undoubtedly the most concerned and expected thing. It should be noted that at the beginning of this season, these two teams are not popular teams in the eyes of all media.

Opta, Champions League forecast on September 13, 2024, In the Champions League round of 36 championship prediction released by Opta on September 13 last year, the biggest favorite teams are undoubtedly Manchester City and Real Madrid. Although Inter Milan and Paris had a 10.9% probability of 4.1% at that time, there were actually not many predictions that would make the two teams meet in the finals as their main choice;

SCORE 90, Champions League forecast on September 16, 2024, and in S90's prediction, Manchester City and Real Madrid are also the hottest teams. Unlike Opta, which also put Inter Milan in the top three prediction results, S90 cannot even find Inter Milan and Paris in the top five sequences.

So, from this point of view, are all the Champions League predictions actually unreliable results?

AI Forecast Review: From 2024-2100, it still seems unreliable

As the season is about to end, ONEFOOTBALL also reviewed AI's previous Champions League championship predictions. And it is not difficult to see from the prediction of 2024-2100 that it seems to be a bit unfavorable. At the beginning of 2024, ONEFOOTBALL made predictions for the next Champions League this century through AI. In the results at that time, AI believed that the champion of the 2024 season would be Barcelona and the champion of 2025 would be Manchester United.

But unfortunately, in the quarter-finals of the 23/24 season, Barcelona was reversed by Paris 1-4 at home and missed the semi-finals; and what's worse is that Manchester United finally only won the 8th place in the 23/24 season and missed the Champions League!

So, can Bayern escape the AI ​​"curse" in the next 25/26 season of the Champions League? Perhaps, it depends on whether Bayern can introduce Wiltz and its defensive transformation;

As for Liverpool's 2027 championship and Manchester City's championship in 2028 and 2029, it is actually not impossible, but it can only be said that it is too advanced at the moment.

I am afraid that even Milan’s own loyal fans may not be so optimistic about whether AC Milan can win the team’s 8th Champions League trophy in 2030.

In the predictions of the remaining period of 2039-2100, AI has given many unimaginable results: Wolves in 2042, Turin in 2052, Malmo in 2056 (Swedish Premier League team), Alaves in 2084 and Galatasaray in 2090, etc., all seem quite challenging and imaginative.

After all, it may seem unbelievable to take Atletico Madrid's three-game Champions League predictions from 2039-2041. The simple reason is that the basis for winning the championship in 2040 is that many players born around 2010 must take on major responsibilities. But at the moment, Atletico Madrid does not seem to have such a burst of talent, right?

The last heart-wrenching fact is undoubtedly that since 2025, AI has no longer predicted that Manchester United will win the Champions League championship. Could it be that it is also directly concluding that the team may only be able to hang out in the European League in the future?