There are only 16 teams left for the 2026 World Cup, but who will reach the final at MetLife Stadium near New York on July 19?
BBC Sport football pundit Chris Sutton has done a good job with his predictions for the last 32 matches, but Paraguay’s victory over Germany caught him by surprise, as it did most of you.
Of more than 60,000 user predictions for this game, only 2% chose Paraguay to win.
However, you did well otherwise: Morocco’s victory over the Netherlands was the only result you got wrong.
Chris was right with his predictions of 13/16, while the AI got 12/16.
With 88 of the 104 matches of this World Cup now complete, users are still leading the way.
Chris was right 54 times (61%), the AI was right 55 (63%), but you lead with 62 (70%).
Will there be more surprises in the round of 16, which includes Mexico vs England and Paraguay vs France?
The AI predictions were created using Microsoft Copilot Chat. We simply asked the tool to “predict the results of the World Cup Round of 16 matches.”
The BBC’s new prediction game allows readers to pick the winner of each knockout match.
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