Thursday certainly presents Roma's toughest test of the group stage thus far, but they should take confidence from their victory over Slavia Prague in their previous meeting in Italy, and we fancy them to come out on top again this week thanks to the superior quality throughout their squad.
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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 Roma win with a probability of 40.12%. A win for Slavia Prague had a probability of 34.75% and a draw had a probability of 25.1%.
The most likely scoreline for a Roma win was 0-1 with a probability of 8.75%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 1-2 (8.69%) and 0-2 (6.43%). The likeliest Slavia Prague win was 1-0 (8.04%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (11.82%). The actual scoreline of 2-0 was predicted with a 5.4% likelihood.