After beating Liverpool in the Champions League first leg, Real Madrid has increased its propensity to make it to its 14th ‘Orejona’.
SPAIN – Real Madrid beat the Liverpool in the first leg for the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and throughout the competition, the Merengues have increased their chances of qualifying for the semi-finals and winning the ‘Orejona’.
According to ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight Soccer Power Index, the Real Madrid from Zinedine Zidane He currently has a 47 percent chance of progressing to the semi-finals and an 11 percent chance of winning Europe’s biggest club title.
Early October last year, weeks before the current edition of the Champions League After the calendar changes the competition suffered as a result of COVID-19, the White House had only a 27 percent chance of reaching the semi-finals and only a seven percent chance of winning the title.
A month later Football Power Index revealed a decrease in the chances of it Real Madrid in his desire to advance to the semifinals by giving him just 18 percent. In early December, the ‘whites’ retained the same chances of making it to the semifinals, although their chances of declaring themselves champions dropped to three percent.
In the first SPI statistics of 2021, Real Madrid he increased his chances of making it to the semifinals to 30 percent, but in February his chances of becoming one of the top four teams in the Champions League and crowned champion dropped to 25 and 4, respectively.
After beating Atalanta in the round of 16, the Merengues increased their chances of making it to the semifinals to 50 percent and 11 percent of winning the trophy, a chance they’ve kept until now.
The second leg in between Liverpool and Real Madrid It will be held next Wednesday and on Saturday the Merengues will be visited by Barcelona, an important duel in the battle for the LaLiga title.