Given Scotland's efforts against Ukraine, there will inevitably be some tiredness in their legs, and that will only encourage Republic of Ireland. Nevertheless, it will still take a big performance from the Green Army to beat Scotland, something which we do not think that they are capable of at this 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 Scotland win with a probability of 60.66%. A draw had a probability of 25.1% and a win for Republic of Ireland had a probability of 14.27%.
The most likely scoreline for a Scotland win was 1-0 with a probability of 17.79%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 2-0 (13.93%) and 2-1 (8.48%). The likeliest drawn scoreline was 0-0 (11.35%), while for a Republic of Ireland win it was 0-1 (6.92%). The actual scoreline of 2-1 was predicted with an 8.5% likelihood. Our team at Sports Mole correctly predicted a 2-1 win for Scotland in this match and our data analysis correctly predicted the win for Scotland.
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