USA head into the tournament opener as the overwhelming favourites, and we expect them to live up to that tag by easing to a comfortable victory over Vietnam, whose confidence would have been dented by the heavy defeat to Spain last week.
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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 USA Women win with a probability of 94.07%. A draw had a probability of 4.6% and a win for Vietnam Women had a probability of 1.37%.
The most likely scoreline for a USA Women win was 3-0 with a probability of 13.21%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 4-0 (12.87%) and 2-0 (10.16%). The likeliest drawn scoreline was 1-1 (2.17%), while for a Vietnam Women win it was 0-1 (0.56%). The actual scoreline of 3-0 was predicted with a 13.2% likelihood. Our data analysis correctly predicted a 3-0 win for USA Women in this match and our team at Sports Mole correctly predicted the win for USA Women.