Barcelona will know that they will have to be somewhere near their best to beat a Las Palmas side that has lost just one home league game this season.
With that said, we still believe that the Catalan giants have enough quality in their squad to claim a narrow win over the newly-promoted side.
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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 53.57%. A draw had a probability of 23.9% and a win for Las Palmas had a probability of 22.53%.
The most likely scoreline for a Barcelona win was 0-1 with a probability of 11.1%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 1-2 (9.73%) and 0-2 (9.52%). The likeliest drawn scoreline was 1-1 (11.35%), while for a Las Palmas win it was 1-0 (6.63%). The actual scoreline of 1-2 was predicted with a 9.7% likelihood. Our team at Sports Mole correctly predicted a 1-2 win for Barcelona in this match and our data analysis correctly predicted the win for Barcelona.