Europe’s top five leagues: Who will be champions?

CIES Football Observatory has presented a predictive analysis of the final rankings of the top five European leagues. The research group has made the prediction based on a multivariate statistical model taking into account the offensive and defensive performances of big-5 league teams until the 31st of December 2016.

According to CIES, four of the five current leaders in the big five European leagues are the most likely champions. That means Chelsea will win the Premier League; Real Madrid will be crowned La Liga champions; Bayern Munich will win the Bundesliga and Juventus will win the Scudetto for the sixth time. However, in the French Ligue 1, PSG’s hegemony will end, as Monaco should…