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Al Jazeera’s artificial intelligence bot Kashef has crunched the numbers and produced some predictions for today‘s game.


Japan faces Croatia in the round of 16 match of the 2022 World Cup on Monday.

Kashef, our artificial intelligence (AI) robot, has analyzed more than 200 metrics, including the number of wins, goals scored and FIFA rankings, from games played over the past century to see who is most likely to win.

Here is Kashef’s prediction:
Who: Japan vs Croatia
Where: Al Janoub Stadium
When: December 5, 18:00 (15:00 GMT)
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Prediction: Japan have not been easy to predict so far in this tournament. The 24th-ranked team stunned Germany (11) in their opener, then lost to Costa Rica (31), before pulling off another big upset by beating Spain (7th).
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Croatia, which mixed two 0-0 ties with a 4-1 thrashing of Canada in the group stage, has reached the round of 16 twice in five previous World Cup appearances.
After weighing all the data, Kashef has given 12th-ranked Croatia a 62 percent chance of beating Japan tonight.
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The 2018 World Cup runners-up are scheduled to face Brazil in the quarterfinals on December 9.
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After 52 matches in this World Cup, Kashef has an accuracy level of 67 percent. After each match, Kashef runs the model again to predict the outcome of the next game until the final.
Predicting the results of matches is not an easy task: external factors, such as the morale of the team or the physical state of the players, make a big difference in the development of the game.
See if you can outwit Kashef and predict today’s winners by playing our AI game here.


