Analysis explains results with evidence: shape and its changes, pressing success rates, progression routes, chance quality and the substitution that turned a match. Video observation and data are used together, and every metric's limits are stated. For coaches, analysts and supporters who want a match explained past the scoreline.
Match and season analysis combining video study with data: shape changes, pressing success, chance quality and where a result was actually decided.
By pushing a full-back into midfield to form a back three in possession, Mikel Arteta built a structure that produced control in the middle of the pitch and the division's meanest defence.
Goal kicks became the first move of attack once keepers learned to pass like midfielders and laws rewarded playing out.
When five attackers meet a set defence inside the penalty area, geometry starts working for the attack.
Passes allowed per defensive action is football's simplest pressing number, and its most misunderstood.
Beating pressure with the first touch and the next pass keeps attacks alive more reliably than beating a man one-on-one.
Dedicated set-piece coaches have turned dead balls from a marginal part of training into one of the most measurable edges in the sport.
Coaching fashions rotate, but the rectangle at the edge of the box keeps producing the game's most valuable touches — and the data has never really argued otherwise.
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.
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.
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.