To make sure you never miss out on your favourite NEW stories, we're happy to send you some reminders

Click 'OK' then 'Allow' to enable notifications

UBS Simulates World Cup 10,000 Times, Gives Italy 1.6% Chance To Win

UBS Simulates World Cup 10,000 Times, Gives Italy 1.6% Chance To Win

UBS' findings are very interesting to say the least.

Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar

Yep - that's despite Italy failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.

UBS ran a simulation over 10,000 times and the result makes for interesting reading.

The summer World Cup is just under a month away (get excited), and ahead of the footballing extravaganza, UBS deployed a team of analysts and editors to run a computer simulation.

Here's the results...

Image: UBS
Image: UBS

Interesting.

So, Italy have a 15.3% chance to win their Group, not to mention a 1.6% to win the whole thing, even though they will not compete at the World Cup.

Cool.

The simulated prediction does, however, give Germany a 24% chance to raise another World Cup.

While giving Brazil a 19.8% and Spain a 16.1% chance.

Next on the list is England with a 8.5% chance who are ahead of France, Belgium and Argentina, among others.

Naturally, though, UBS giving Italy a chance to win the World Cup sent social media into overdrive:

Who wins the World Cup?

Let us know who you think.

Featured Image Credit:

Topics: Football News, Football, World Cup, Italy

Nasir Jabbar is a journalist at SPORTbible. He graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA in Media Communications. He's a combat sport aficionado, and has contributed to MMA websites AddictedMMA and CagePotato. Nasir has covered some of the biggest fights, while interviewing the likes of Conor McGregor, Michael Bisping and Anthony Joshua. He's also an avid Bristol City fan.

X

@https://twitter.com/NasJabbar