Yash Thakur takes a look at a recently-converted full back in Spain’s Primera Division and uses TransferLab to profile her. The modern full back role is one of the most difficult and versatile positions to play in football due to its physical demands and tactical variations. In more recent...
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23 Jul, 2021
How Important is Attacking Balance to a Team’s Success?
23 Jul, 2021
Josh Hobbs explores the idea of “attacking balance” and takes a look at how teams in the Premier League fare by that measure. “They’re a one-man team.” “If those two got injured at the same time, they’d have nothing going forward.” These are common criticisms that crop up all...
Read more13 Jul, 2021
Joe Montemurro Should Build His Juventus Side Around Barbara Bonansea
13 Jul, 2021
Abdullah Abdullah profiles Barbara Bonansea and shows how she could fit in to Joe Montemurro’s plans at Juventus. This summer has ushered in a new beginning for several clubs around Europe. Juventus have set their sights on challenging in the UEFA Women’s Champions League, appointing Joe Montemurro as their...
Read more09 Jul, 2021
What if TransferLab was Managing Brazil in the Copa America…?
09 Jul, 2021
James Nalton uses TransferLab’s new National Best XI tool to compare Tite’s Brazil to TransferLab’s predicted XI. Since taking over as Brazil manager in 2016, Tite has never lost a Copa America game. In 2019, he guided his nation to their first Copa win since 2007. This year, perhaps unsurprisingly...
Read more07 Jul, 2021
Analysing Outside Centre Backs
07 Jul, 2021
Eric Laurie looks at the outside centre back role and explores the underlying data to see what we can learn about it. An interesting development in football throughout recent seasons has been the increased use of a back three/five with some of the clubs using this tactical feature becoming...
Read more28 Jun, 2021
TransferLab Suggests an England Best XI For Gareth Southgate against Germany
28 Jun, 2021
Jon Mackenzie uses TransferLab to build a potential starting XI for England’s Round of 16 match against Germany. Perhaps this is the case whenever football fans are involved, but for England, the story of the European Championship so far has been selection issues. And it’s not hard to see...
Read more23 Jun, 2021
Haley Bugeja: The Maltese Prodigy
23 Jun, 2021
Yash Thakur digs into the data for one of the up-and-coming stars of women’s football. Aged just 17, Haley Bugeja was awarded the Best Young Player of the Year award in last season’s Serie A Femminile. In many respects, Bugeja came out of nowhere. Touted as a prodigy back...
Read more21 Jun, 2021
Mexico: A Rich Source of Recruitment for European Clubs?
21 Jun, 2021
Alex Mahoney of 44SPORTS explains how fertile a source of recruitment Liga MX in Mexico could be for European clubs. Despite a handful of high-profile transfers to Europe from the Mexican league (Liga MX) and consistently solid performances of the Mexican National Team at virtually every World Cup, Mexican...
Read more16 Jun, 2021
Developing New Metrics: Set Piece Delivery
16 Jun, 2021
Josh Hobbs looks at another novel metric generated by TransferLab. One of the perennial problems using data to analyse football is the discrepancy that exists between those with the ability to manipulate data and those who understand what is taking place on a football pitch. Where data scientists will...
Read more09 Jun, 2021
The Modern Centre Forward in the Women’s Game
09 Jun, 2021
Abdullah Abdullah looks at how the role of the centre forward is changing within women’s football. European football has a new name on its Champions League trophy. Last month, Barcelona Femini thrashed Chelsea Women 4-1 and in the process became the first team other than Olympique Lyon Feminin to...
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