Neel Shelat has a look at another unusual tactical set-up paying off – this time, it is surprise LaLiga package, Rayo Vallecano.

Neel Shelat takes a look at another team exceeding expectations with an unusual tactical approach They say ‘never go back,’ but Ernesto Valverde certainly does not follow that piece of advice. He moved to Bilbao for his fourth stint at Athletic Club at the start of this season, having...

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...

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

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

Alex Stewart and Tom Underhill look at the Napoli midfielder, whose high transfer fee when joining Fulham was seen as emblematic of the failures in their scouting, but who has since gone on to excel

Dan Pritchard assesses Graham Potter’s tactical approach using data to show how he overachieved relative to budget with the Seagulls Almost all football clubs at the professional level use data these days, but fewer are led by that data, used to its fullest potential. This is something that requires...

Jamie Scott analyses how Leeds United have manipulated width to create opportunities With the adoption of positional play (Juego de Pocision, or JDP for short) fast becoming a conventional strategy in modern, elite-level football, viewing the football pitch from a zonal perspective, rather than from a player-centric standpoint, has...

Jamie Scott assesses the Swedish playmaker’s unorthodox method and how it benefits Tottenham Hotspur Dejan Kulusevski’s stint at Tottenham, under Italian manager and notorious serial winner Antonio Conte, has been an unequivocal success so far. The Swedish attacker has contributed to his side’s revival under Conte and subsequent top...

In part two of this two-part series, Yash Thakur looks at the players who feed off through balls and turn them into goals We have looked at the creators in depth in the first part of this series, but playing a pass is one half of the act. The...