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...