Roberto Firmino remains an enigma. He’s now into his sixth season as a Liverpool player and there are people out there who still don’t know what he does for the Premier League champions. There are always preconceived notions in football, often expectations detailed to people at a young age, and these are hard to shake…
Twenty3 are delighted to announce an Analytics Toolbox partnership with Premier League side, West Bromwich Albion. The agreement sees The Baggies integrate the Twenty3 product across multiple areas of their technical team to aid with efficiency and deeper analysis upon their return to the top flight of English football. Their team will enjoy access to…
To say that Fantasy Premier League (FPL) is all about data is stating the obvious – from goals scored to assists and clean sheets, anyone who plays the popular virtual football game is using statistics to some degree in order to make decisions about their team. But some fantasy football players are taking things further.…
A manager’s ability to sell a ‘project’ and a vision to fans of their club is fast becoming a key weapon in the armoury of any elite coach. Being able to demonstrate that players are adapting to a certain tactical style, or a recruitment strategy is putting the building blocks in place for success, is…
Taking the last two seasons as a guide, Premier League new-boys Leeds United, West Bromwich Albion, and Fulham have three roles to divide between them. It’s how the promoted sides do things now. One team challenging for Europe, one team in a traditional relegation scrap, and one team bombing completely. This might have emerged as…
Ohh Thiago Silva. The Brazilian completed his move to Stamford Bridge last week after his Paris Saint-Germain contract expired. The 35-year-old is a serial winner and brings experience to a youthful Chelsea team. It’s an exciting time at Stamford Bridge following the arrivals of Ben Chilwell, Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech to their ranks already.…
That Ajax team from the 2018/19 season was pillaged when the campaign came to an end. It was inevitable. Barcelona secured the services of Frenkie de Jong while Juventus pipped a host of clubs to the signature of Matthijs de Ligt. Both were spectacular in their own right. However, it was a surprise to see…
With the Women’s Champions League final on Sunday, there are parts of the 2019/20 season still to be wrapped up, and yet 2020/21 is already upon us. New dawns, new faces, new outfits; our levels of knowledge drop again on the rollercoaster of sporting life. But a new season also tends to mean that we…
It wasn’t too long ago that most teams across Europe had at least one box-to-box midfielder in their team. The sort of player to make a crunching tackle on the edge of their own area before arriving late to finish off a team move just moments later. However, football is perpetually evolving and the demands…
The combined age of Barcelona’s two top-scorers is 66. That’s pensionable age. It’s no surprise, given the ground-breakingly embarrassing exit from the Champions League, that there’s talk of a rebuild at Camp Nou. Some are even wondering how Los Culés might look if Lionel Messi left. But the player that needs shifting most urgently is…