11 Feb, 2025

Are some players consistently good finishers?

11 Feb, 2025

Eduin Boater Latimer analyses how finishers fare season-on-season and how much moving teams can affect the ability to out-perform expected goals

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06 Feb, 2025

Trends in Ligue 1 transfers – fad or focus?

06 Feb, 2025

Alex Stewart assesses what patterns in transfers between Ligue 1 and the Premier League can tell us about whether clubs follow trends in player acquisition

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30 Jan, 2025

Why Dominant Teams Don’t Always Make for the Best Transfer Targets: the Curious Case of Bodø/Glimt

30 Jan, 2025

Neel Shelat looks at Bodø/Glimt, one of Norway's most successful recent teams, and asks why many of the players do not seem able to replicate their feats elsewhere

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13 Jan, 2025

Market Analysis: The Saudi Pro League and Arabian Peninsula

13 Jan, 2025

Neel Shelat assesses the current landscape in one of the world's most interesting player trading markets, which is no longer just the preserve of aging stars chasing one last payday

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10 Jan, 2025

East Asia’s Year of Directness

10 Jan, 2025

Neel Shelat looks at how tactics shifted in Japan and South Korea last season, and what it might mean for football in general There have been some interesting tactical trends and developments in 2024. At the most elite level of men’s club football in Europe, there appears to have...

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12 Dec, 2024

Are Los Angeles FC Evolving Into The Ideal MLS Team?

12 Dec, 2024

Neel Shelat looks at the tactics and recruitment decisions of Los Angeles FC, MLS' emergent power club and 2022 double winners

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09 Oct, 2024

Set-Pieces: Are There Still Margins To Be Gained?

09 Oct, 2024

Alex Stewart looks at set pieces, an area of the game where there is still room to gain significant advantage through planning, strategy, and data use

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20 Aug, 2024

St. Pauli Under Alexander Blessin: What to Expect?

20 Aug, 2024

Bergas Brillianto analyses the new St. Pauli head coach Alexander Blessin, previously one of Europe's most extreme pressing coaches, and asks what the newly-promoted Bundesliga side will look like under him

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21 Jul, 2024

Jagoba Arrasate’s Osasuna: Marrying Tactics with Cultural Identity

21 Jul, 2024

Neel Shelat investigates how Jagoba Arrasate achieved results above expectations with Osasuna using a direct style of football

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16 Jul, 2024

Redesigning the Palace

16 Jul, 2024

Mohamed Mohamed returns with a long read on Crystal Palace, how they played in 2023/24, and what they might look to do in the transfer market

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