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We used AI and a complex formula to predict how the World Cup will play out.

We asked our AI model to simulate the World Cup 100,000 times. Here are the results

There are 48 teams, 104 matches and infinite possibilities at the World Cup. We crunched the numbers to find every team’s probability of success.

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Pep Guardiola to leave Manchester City at the end of the season.

Pep Guardiola confirms Man City departure; England leave stars out of World Cup squad

Pep Guardiola will depart Man City and Michael Carrick will stay at Man United, as England prepare to head to next month’s World Cup without several familiar faces.

  • Rohith Nair and Martyn Herman
Kim Hellberg (Middlesbrough) and Tonda Eckert (Southampton) clash on the sidelines.

Spygate 2.0: The cheating saga that could blow up the Premier League promotion race

Socceroo Riley McGree’s Middlesbrough could get a last-minute re-entry into the Championship play-off final after an analyst from a rival club was sprung filming one of their training sessions in the bushes.

  • Vince Rugari
Mo Toure scores for Norwich on Wednesday.

A goal every 15 touches: Why this Socceroos striker is earning Haaland comparisons

Mohamed Toure has made a stellar start to life at English club Norwich City – and his manager sees shades of none other than Erling Haaland in his mental approach.

  • Vince Rugari
Beth Mead, Kim Little and Steph Catley celebrate Arsenal’s win.

‘I was panicking’: Catley survives injury scare as Kerr’s Chelsea suffer title blow

Four Australians started at Stamford Bridge as the visitors prevailed 2-0 to all but end Chelsea’s hopes of back-to-back Women’s Super League titles.

  • Vince Rugari
Man City coach Pep Guardiola looks despondent after the loss.

Man City’s season heads south in far north, as Arctic minnows cause major upset

City’s 3-1 loss was described as one of the most humiliating defeats in Champions League history.

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A car ploughs into the crowd at Liverpool’s victory parade.

‘Move, move, move’: Enraged driver who ploughed van into soccer parade jailed for decades

“You struck people head-on, knocked others onto the bonnet, drove over limbs, crushed prams and forced those nearby to scatter in terror,” a Liverpool judge told Paul Doyle.

  • Brian Melley
Laura Woods collapses on air.

Football presenter collapses live on TV before international match

Football commentator Laura Woods collapsed while covering England’s friendly against Ghana on ITV.

Australia battled hard when a player down but came up short against the European champions.

The Matildas needed a jolt. Trouble is, they only have four months to fix things

The overall picture out of the 3-0 defeat to England was of an Australian outfit which has stood largely still over the past two years. With the home Asian Cup on the horizon, that’s a big concern.

  • Emma Kemp
Sam Kerr during the international friendly against Wales on Saturday.

England score in last-minute penalty kick for 3-0 to rub salt in the wound for Matildas

Sam Kerr is in line to reclaim the captain’s armband when the Matildas take on the Lionesses in Derby.

  • Frances Howe