Barcelona 4, SK Slavia Praha 2

PRAGUA (Interstat) — Barcelona’s substitutes delivered a devastating second-half surge to overcome an early deficit and defeat SK Slavia Praha 4-2 in a Champions League group stage match Wednesday at Fortuna Arena. The heavily favored visitors, projected by Interstat’s ELO system with a 99.10 percent probability to win, found themselves stunned in the 10th minute when Slavia Praha forward Vasil Kušej capitalized on a disjointed Barcelona defense to give the Czech side a shocking early lead. The goal defied the pregame projection of a 3-0 Barcelona victory by the same analytics firm. Barcelona, however, began to assert control as the… Read more...