NWSL MVP Race: Assessing the League’s Best Players

Sophia Smith of the Portland Thorns

Stephanie Insixiengmay takes a look at the players nominated for NWSL's individual award and explains what makes them outstanding

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26 Oct, 2022

Scouting in Brazil: Four Players to Watch

26 Oct, 2022

Alex Stewart uses TransferLab to scout the Brasileirão and find players with the quality, and GBE points, to succeed in England

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20 Oct, 2022

Is Using Talented Playmakers Out Wide a Net Positive?

20 Oct, 2022

Jamie Scott looks at the kind of relationships certain types of wide attacker form, and how they benefit the team as a whole Playmakers are typically players who catalyse ball progression and/or creation in and around the final third. They are dynamic in the angles they receive at, and...

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18 Oct, 2022

FC Lorient: Breaking the Stereotype of Direct Teams

18 Oct, 2022

FC Lorient are this season's surprise package in Ligue 1. Neel Shelat looks at their unusual approach and shows we shouldn't always just judge a team by its data

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12 Oct, 2022

Bielsa’s Influence, and the Curious Case of Javier Torrente

12 Oct, 2022

Marcelo Bielsa is hugely influential, but not every coach he's influenced plays the same way. We used Coach ID to map styles and found an interesting outlier

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10 Oct, 2022

Are data analytics the new YouTube skills and goals videos?

10 Oct, 2022

Arran Ridley uses some nifty analysis to show how we talk about football on Twitter is changing

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Lena Oberdorf: A Perfect Midfielder

Stephanie Insixiengmay looks at the 2022 Women's Ballon d'Or nominee, who is only 20, and assesses her terrifyingly high ceiling

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05 Oct, 2022

How Manchester City’s Asymmetrical Approach to Chance Creation is Actually Systematic and Similar

05 Oct, 2022

Jamie Scott is back another superb team analysis, this time focussing on Pep Guardiola's asymmetry at Manchester City

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