Harry Kane was never just a tap-in merchant, but he was great at it, and considering it requires a ton of skill, this made him extremely valuable. He could get into great positions and fire off a shot, or stick a leg out. He was just there, ready to shoot. Now? Now he’s ever...
They are extremely patient on offense to pick out passes that have a high likelihood of being turned into shots and on defense stick close to goal, making everything easy elsewhere but tough inside the box. The Foals will move into the Champions League and lose one of their elite strike pa...
Moyes' own successor has been lighting worlds on fire (despite a good deal more investment). So I'm going to compare him to Roberto Martinez, and I think it's a pretty reasonable comparison. Sure Romelu Lukaku is nice to have if you're Martinez, but don't forget how dominant Marouane ...
The exponent has since been adjusted to 1.8 but the formula tracks remarkably well with actual results. Similar formulas have since been developed for basketball and football (to avoid confusion, I'll stick with the American convention where 'football' is 'soccer' and 'football' is 'football')...
So they stick themselves year after year in the hottest market in the world, and the position everyone knows you have to overpay to get an elite star. James: Yeah, I agree with that. I do wonder where the 21-year-old strikers are at Arsenal. Why aren’t there one or two on the ...
but with no obvious explanation in the way De Gea can describe things on the defensive end, the expectation should probably be that United will conform to their attacking numbers going forward.The biggest stick with which Solskjær has been beaten is the schedule he’s faced so far. The ...
It is a long process, but... If you stick with it, you see your kids start to gain comfort. My son, who is an able U8 player but possibly nothing special, passes and shoots with both feet regularly during his games. He doesn't think about it either. ...
a Stanley Cup winner with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and who also does some cool stuff with modelling NFL play-by-play and R. Sam teaches data visualization and is not exactly a fan of radar charts. He gave me some stick about that - mostly fair, though I did actually study data vis pre...
combined with the general decline of midfield general Kyle Beckerman's stats and mobility over the past 3 seasons justified the change. It looks as though Cassar will stick with the 4-3-3, it's hard to think Plata won't produce more than he did in 2015 and a full season of ex-Boca...