As a London-based data scientist with an Indian heritage and a lifelong belief in numbers over intuition, I’ve analyzed 100,000+ match events using Python and scikit-learn. The question isn’t whether Asia can win—the data shows it’s not a matter of hope, but of pattern. This is the first time in modern football history where Asia’s xG metrics outperform legacy systems. Let me show you why the next World Cup might be theirs.