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Champions League winners predicted by supercomputer with Premier League club tipped for glory… but it’s not Liverpool
A suprise team has been tipped to win this season's competition
A SUPERCOMPUTER has sensationally predicted the winners of this season's Champions League.
And it's NOT the most in-form team of the tournament, which has just wrapped up its revamped group stage.
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Despite suffering defeat to PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday night, Liverpool became the first winners of the new Champions League group phase.
The Reds are many football fans' favourites to lift the prestigious trophy in May.
But according to a supercomputer, one of Kop club's domestic rivals will reach and WIN the showpiece at Bayern Munich's Allianz Arena.
's supercomputer has sensationally predicted that Arsenal will win their first-ever Champions League this summer.
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The prediction has been made following 100,000 simulations of this season's competition.
The North Londoners have been given a 24.3 per cent chance of winning the tournament.
Mikel Arteta's troops have also been given 59 and 38.7 per cent chances of reaching the semis and the final respectively.
Liverpool are the supercomputer's second favourites to win the competition.
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The Merseysiders have been given an 18.9 per cent chance of winning their seventh European Cup.
It's been calculated that they have 50.4 and 34.3 per cent chances of reaching the semis and the final.
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Defending champions Real Madrid are the third favourites, with the supercomputer calculating they have a 10.8 per cent chance of retaining the trophy.
It's been calculated that struggling Premier League champions Manchester City have just a 6.5 per cent chance of becoming two-time winners of the competition.
Aston Villa, meanwhile, have a mere 2.7 per cent chance of replicating their stunning triumph in 1982.
Liverpool, Arsenal and Villa sailed into the last 16 with respective first, third and eighth-placed finishes.
Manchester City, meanwhile, will have to go through a two-legged play-off - in which they'll either face Real or Bayern Munich - to join them in the knockout stages.
Who faces who in the Champions League?
Here's a look at the ties across the competition...
Teams who finished from ninth to 24th in the Champions League league phase will play off to decide who reaches the last-16.
PLAYOFF ROUND
Atalanta vs Sporting Lisbon or Club Brugge
Borussia Dortmund vs Sporting Lisbon or Club Brugge
Real Madrid vs Celtic or Man City
Bayern Munich vs Celtic or Man City
AC Milan vs Feyenoord or Juventus
PSV vs Feyenoord or Juventus
PSG vs AS Monaco or Brest
Benfica vs AS Monaco or Brest
Winners of playoff ties will then face the teams who finished in the top eight of the league phase in the last-16...
LAST 16
Liverpool vs PSG/Benfica/AS Monaco/Brest
Barcelona vs PSG/Benfica/AS Monaco/Brest
Arsenal vs AC Milan/PSV Eindhoven/Feyenoord/Juventus
Inter Milan vs AC Milan/PSV Eindhoven/Feyenoord/Juventus
Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid/Bayern Munich/Celtic/Man City
Bayer Leverkusen vs Real Madrid/Bayern Munich/Celtic/Man City
Lille vs Atalanta/Borussia Dortmund/Sporting Lisbon/Club Brugge
Aston Villa vs Atalanta/Borussia Dortmund/Sporting Lisbon/Club Brugge
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