Analysis
How xG hides what it cannot say about finishing quality
Expected goals measures chance quality, not conversion — and treating a striker's xG as a verdict on his finishing quietly ignores everything the model was never built to see.
Analysis
Match and season analysis combining video study with data: shape changes, pressing success, chance quality and where a result was actually decided.
Analysis
Why a back three requires specific, not generic, wingbacks
A back three does not simply add a defender — it multiplies the demands on the two widest players, who must be attackers, defenders and midfielders in the same movement.
Analysis
How rest defence shapes a team's vulnerability to counterattacks
The structure a team leaves behind the ball when it attacks — its rest defence — decides almost everything about how badly it can be hurt on the break.
Analysis
Why pressing traps fail against a single striker
Pressing traps are built to hunt the ball in packs, and a lone striker starves them of the numbers they need to close it down.