Despite their age, Messi and Suarez still showed they can regularly find the back of the net last season, and given their history of success together, along with the question marks on the back end for the visitors, we expect RSL to suffer their first opening game defeat in quite some time.
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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 Inter Miami win with a probability of 45.88%. A win for Real Salt Lake had a probability of 30% and a draw had a probability of 24.1%.
The most likely scoreline for a Inter Miami win was 2-1 with a probability of 9.28%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 1-0 (8.68%) and 2-0 (7.18%). The likeliest Real Salt Lake win was 1-2 (7.26%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (11.22%). The actual scoreline of 2-0 was predicted with a 7.2% likelihood. Our team at Sports Mole and our data analysis both correctly predicted that Inter Miami would win this match.
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