Real Sociedad has gone through a bad period of results and that has caused it to fall to seventh place, in addition to reducing the gap to eighth and ninth, and increasing the deficit to Athletic and Atlético.
Despite this, the Opta Analyst ‘supercomputer’ believes in realistic options to secure a new European place and achieve a fifth consecutive classification, something that would be historic for the San Sebastian club. This gives only a 14.1% chance of being left (considering that the top seven qualify). There is even a 0.3% chance of being eleventh, something unthinkable in the current state of the royalists.
More options than Betis
Opta predicts that txuri urdin is more of a team than Betis, despite being behind at the moment and, in fact, they give Real more than double the chance of being sixth (48.5% to 22.8% Betis) and be fifth (12.7% compared to 3.7% of Betis). However, it is clear that Athletic starts as a favourite, and therefore has a solid 53.9% probability of staying where it is, in fifth place which could land the Champions League jackpot. La Real also has a huge 22.7% probability of finishing seventh and has to see the Conference in the best cases.
However, perhaps the most surprising fact of all is the one that almost equals the chances of getting to the Champions League at the end of the tenth. txuri urdin has only 1.6% of finishing fourth and 0.2% of being third, with fourth place currently 11 points away, while the probability of being tenth is 1.1%, with Getafe in fourth.
Source: La Verdad
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