A recent supercomputer prediction has forecast that Argentina and Lionel Messi will win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Having missed on winning the 2014 tournament after a 1-0 defeat to Germany in the final, Lionel Scaloni's side has emphatically not lost a competitive match since 2019 and enters the tournament in superb form. Predicted to go all the way later this year, researchers BCA have published a special report combining data from 192 group stage games and 64 knockout rounds played during the 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cups.
As relayed by FourFourTwo most recently, Argentina are predicted to see off Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal in a penalty shootout victory, thus recording their second victory at a World Cup, after their success back in 1986. Some have also suggested this could be the last majority tournament for the pair, so bowing out this would way would emphatically mark the end of an era.
