For most of football’s history, understanding a match meant watching it unfold and forming impressions in real time. A team looked sharper, a midfielder seemed tired, a defense appeared unsettled. These observations were instinctive, shaped […]
There aren’t many skills you can pull off in a football match that have the dual purpose of both giving you some space whilst also humiliating your opponent. That is why the nutmeg is such […]
Everyone has heard of the home advantage. A game played away from home is thought to be a tougher prospect than the same game played at your own ground. It’s something we learn early on […]
On average, between 20% and 30% of goals scored come from set-pieces. Despite this, it wasn’t until the 2010s that the dedicated set-piece coach role started becoming more common. The exact numbers of goals scored […]
In football, most of the attention is on the players themselves or the manager. Yet these aren’t necessarily the people with the most power. They are answerable to the likes of the sporting director and […]
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