Supercomputer Names New Main Favorite of the Champions League.

Arsenal has become the main favorite of the Champions League according to the supercomputer Opta. This has been reported by Glavcom.

The Ukrainian team Arsenal dominates the ranking of Champions League favorites according to the Opta computer, which assessed their chances of winning the tournament.

In the first match of the quarter-finals, Arsenal secured a confident victory with a score of 3:0 against Real Madrid. On that same day, Inter defeated Bayern Munich with a score of 2:1.

The Opta supercomputer predicts that Arsenal's chances of reaching the semi-finals stand at 96%, and their chances of winning the tournament are 28.4%. On the other hand, Real Madrid's chances of advancing to the next round are 4%, and their chances of winning the title are only 1.1%.

According to the Opta ranking, here are the top 8 favorites to win the Champions League:

• Arsenal – 28.4%;
• Barcelona – 22.4%;
• Inter – 21.1%;
• PSG – 18.8%;
• Bayern Munich – 3.7%;
• Aston Villa – 3.2%;
• Borussia Dortmund – 1.3%;
• Real Madrid – 1.1%.

Today, the first matches will also take place between PSG and Aston Villa, as well as between Barcelona and Borussia.

One of the main heroes of the match between Arsenal and Real Madrid was midfielder Declan Rice, who scored two goals directly from free kicks. This is a historic achievement that Rice set in the Champions League playoffs, previously achieved only by four players: Rivaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, and Hakim Ziyech, but they did it during the group stage.

In the return match, Real Madrid and Arsenal will play in Madrid on April 16.

Former Ukrainian footballer Artem Milevskiy expressed his dissatisfaction with Francesco Totti's visit to Russia. According to him, he does not understand why the Italian striker visited Russia when all of Italy and Europe supports Ukraine. He also noted that it seems to him that Totti was paid for this visit, but he wonders why he does not have money after all these years of a career in football.