Borussia Mönchengladbach ended a seven-game winless streak with a victory over bottom of the table Schalke on Saturday, 20 March. Following on from the announcement that manager Marco Rose would be leaving at the end of the season to take over as Borussia Dortmund head coach, Die Fohlen lost four successive Bundesliga matches. This slump…
Barring a disaster of pretty sizable proportions, the Italian Serie A crown will change hands for the first time in a decade come May. Long have Juventus ruled the division, stringing together nine consecutive league-winning campaigns, and 2020-21 was supposed to make it 10—Cristiano Ronaldo’s second, albeit slightly different, La Decima, if you will. But…
Autores: Pablo Sarinelli & Ramiro Hertimian en Colaboración con @Sudanalytics A lo largo de la historia, las revoluciones tácticas siempre han tenido un padrino. En el pasado, la falta de evidencia quizás contribuya a que algunas innovaciones remitan a mitos de tintes románticos. Por ejemplo, Jonathan Wilson, en La Pirámide Invertida, otorga gran parte de…
Football matches are sometimes described like boxing bouts, as two fighters punching and counter-punching, slugging it out in an attempt to fell their opponent. It’s a dramatic comparison, sure, but it hits at a fundamental truth. As in boxing, in football you attack by taking action and you largely defend in ways which don’t make…
Football content is biased. There’s no other way to dress it up. All fans of football have preconceived beliefs when it comes to clubs, managers and players. No matter how much you try to leave all of that at the door when putting together what you believe to be an objective piece of content, opinion…
Marseille’s decision to hire Jorge Sampaoli was a bold one. It’s only the second time that the Argentine tactician has taken a job in Europe and the first, a single season with Sevilla, wasn’t deemed a success. They finished fourth in LaLiga and were knocked out of the Champions League by Leicester City. The Andalusian…
Resistance to change is normal. There’s often a fear of the unknown and moving away from what you’re used to is something very few are comfortable with. This is perhaps why there’s a refusal from some to accept a number of modern-day metrics used for analysis. Over the last decade, football data has become more…
Nach anfänglichen Schwierigkeiten bei Bayern München sorgt Flügelstürmer Leroy Sané mittlerweile für Furore. Die Wiedererstarkung des 25-Jährigen ist auch ein Verdienst von Cheftrainer Hansi Flick, der an der taktischen Einbindung Sanés gefeilt hat. Dass Sané aktuell ein absoluter Leistungsträger bei den Bayern ist, unterstrich sein Auftritt gegen Borussia Dortmund am vergangenen Samstag. Beim hart erkämpften…
Since retiring from football in 2013, Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has made a name for himself as one of the leading analysts on TV as part of the Sky Sports team. The 38-cap England international is the poster boy for statistics and analysis within media, having trialled VR and adopted expected goals into his vocabulary.…
“A draw is a disaster. A draw is a defeat in many ways. It’s not acceptable to draw a football match.” Steven Gerrard’s interview on Robbie Fowler’s podcast is 45 minutes long, but those three seconds were arguably the best insight into his mindset as a manager. It also goes some way to explaining why,…