The shackles will well and truly come off for a Unionistas side who ought to play without any trepidation on Thursday evening, especially with Barcelona's morale and energy levels being drained in Saudi Arabia.
A second-string Blaugrana outfit made hard work of their previous success over Barbastro, and the Barca sheets may not be clean at the end of the 90 minutes, but the visitors will surely possess too much offensive firepower for their third-tier hosts, whose journey should still end on a high rather than with a whimper.
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Data Analysis
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Barcelona win with a probability of 72.66%. A draw had a probability of 17.8% and a win for Unionistas had a probability of 9.51%.
The most likely scoreline for a Barcelona win was 0-2 with a probability of 14.29%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 0-1 (13.23%) and 0-3 (10.28%). The likeliest drawn scoreline was 1-1 (8.37%), while for a Unionistas win it was 1-0 (3.88%). The actual scoreline of 1-3 was predicted with a 6.5% likelihood. Our team at Sports Mole correctly predicted a 1-3 win for Barcelona in this match and our data analysis correctly predicted the win for Barcelona.
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