It is time for AI Agent Johan’s revenge, coming Saturday it will be Netherlands 🐯 vs Sweden playing their second game of the World Cup 2026. The first game against Japan was very close, as Johan already highlighted in his prediction, but unfortunately it ended up with a draw, where AI Agent Johan predicted a win.
This blog post covers three things:
- what I had to do before Johan could predict anything useful
- what Johan actually predicts for this match.
- Enhancements to Johan
What needed to be updated before Johan could go live
Johan’s AI Builder model was trained on historical data, but the model inputs it uses at prediction time come from the Dataverse Teams table — not the training data. That means those values need to reflect the current reality going into the tournament, not some historical average.
Before the group stage started, I manually updated the following data for every Netherlands opponent (and for the Netherlands themselves):
- Goals scored last 5 — based on their last five matches
- Goals conceded last 5 — based on their last five matches
- Win streak — current streak at time of prediction
- FIFA ranking — latest official FIFA ranking used to calculate the ranking difference (link to FIFA ranking)
Sweden— what the data says
Before AI Agent Johan’s revenge, here’s what the raw numbers look like for Sweden heading into this game. Because of the 5-1 victory during their first group stage match the numbers did improve big time for Sweden.
| Sweden | |
| FIFA ranking | 35 |
| Goals scored last 5 | 2.8 |
| Goals conceded last | 1.8 |
| Win streak | 1 |
| Netherlands | |
| FIFA ranking | 8 |
| Goals scored last 5 | 1.4 |
| Goals conceded last 5 | 1.2 |
| Win streak | 0 |
The Ranking difference (Netherlands minus Sweden) is in favor of the Netherlands 🐯 again. The other thing you notice is that when you look at the goals scored and conceded that it is almost impossible that the game would end up with a 0-0 draw 🤣
What AI Agent Johan 🤖 predicts
I opened Copilot Studio, triggered the Predict Match topic, typed in Sweden and selected Group Stage. AI Agent Johan 🤖 went to work.
My take
My orange heart is telling me that this time my prediction will be Win. As mentioned in the data analysis I think this one could a game with quite some goals so hopefully an exciting match and AI Agent Johan’s revenge on his first prediction.
Enhancements to Johan
In order to make it even more fun by being able to predict any match during this World Cup, not The Netherlands only, I have made some changes to Johan.
- The Topic is now extended with an extra Question which stores the result into a new entity called: WorldCupHomeTeam
- The WorldCupHomeTeam is now an extra input parameter for the Power Automate Flow
- The steps to collect that activate stats for the Netherlands are now replace to look at the input parameter
- The AI Prompt is updated so it is more focussed on the HomeTeam in general instead of The Netherlands
What’s next
Johan will be back before every Netherlands group stage game and after the Sweden game the last one of the Group Stage will be on the agenda, next game: Tunesia. Hopefully the Dutch Team will perform in line with the prediction from AI Agent Johan so he vision and predictions can be shared for a bit longer.
Blog Series AI Agent Johan
This post is part of the AI Agent Johan series. Start from the beginning here or read the full setup series via the links below.
Post 1 — Introduction: Can AI Agent Johan predict if the Netherlands will win the 2026 World Cup Soccer ?
Post 2 — Data layer: Building AI Agent Johan’s Brain – The data layer
Post 3 — AI Builder training: AI Agent Johan: Training the AI Builder model – JScheper.com
Post 4 — Copilot Studio setup: Bringing AI Agent Johan in Copilot Studio to life🤖 – JScheper.com
Post 5 — AI Agent Johan his first prediction: Netherlands vs. Japan: AI Agent Johan his first prediction for NL against Japan
