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Writer, ESPN; author, NET GAINS: INSIDE THE BEAUTIFUL GAME’S ANALYTICS REVOLUTION (out now, link below)

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Ryan O'Hanlon
2 years
My book, NET GAINS, is out today! It's about why the "data revolution" in the world's most popular game trails far behind sports like basketball and baseball, how that's changing, and how far it might all eventually go. Buy it wherever you buy your books:
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I joke about how, if you only watched international soccer, you would have a deranged view of who the best players in the world are. But if you only watched international soccer, you would think that Xherdan Shaqiri is the greatest soccer player of all time -- and you'd be right.
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7 months
Real Madrid look terrible. I'm moving them up to no. 1 in my Champions League power rankings.
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1 year
If you amortize the result, Chelsea only lost 0.00003 to 0.00001.
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Hoping this jinxes it, but France–Portugal is shaping up to be one of the worst soccer games we've ever seen.
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3 months
It's not lost on me that we might never see a 40-something player perform at this level ever again, at a major tournament. Make sure you watch every minute of every Portugal game from here on out. Enjoy Pepe while you still can.
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1 year
The Greatest Trick Jose Mourinho Ever Pulled Was Making Me Forget That He Got Eliminated from A Knockout Tournament by a Team Whose Coach Was in Jail
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manager in prison
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I wasn't confident Real Madrid would win the Champions League final until they got outshot 5-2, conceded multiple breakaways, and had their post hit in the first 25 minutes.
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This is the worst I’ve ever seen a team play with nine men *and* the worst I’ve ever seen a team play against nine men.
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Hoping this jinxes it, but France–Portugal is shaping up to be one of the worst soccer games we've ever seen.
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1 year
Congratulations to the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, which has no connection to the Saudi Arabian government, for achieving their first Champions League qualification.
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I wrote about the main reason why the USMNT got dumped out of the Copa America: the players aren’t as good as we thought they were.
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11 months
Remember Jonah Hill in MONEYBALL? That was, basically, Ian Graham at Liverpool. I talked to him about using data to build one of the best soccer teams in the world -- and what comes next:
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1 year
Contrary to popular belief, Cristiano — not oil — is the main source of the PIF’s wealth.
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Cristiano Ronaldo: “My decision to join Saudi clubs was 100% crucial to bring in new top players. It’s a fact”. 🇸🇦 “When I joined Juventus, Serie A was dead and then after I signed… it was revived. Wherever Cristiano goes he generates higher interest”.
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He’s a goals-only center forward with eight non-penalty goals this season.
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Chelsea have made Dusan Vlahovic their No. 1 target for the summer and have made an €80 million offer for the striker, sources have told @LaurensJulien 💰
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England’s best passers are 1) playing a position that completely negates his ability to pass, and 2) sitting on the bench after playing a position that completely negated his ability to pass.
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England's wins in knockout matches under Southgate: Colombia (pens), Sweden, Germany (at home), Ukraine, Denmark, Senegal, Slovakia, Switzerland (pens), and Netherlands. The literal luck of the draw plays such a massive role in shaping international-soccer legacies.
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Wanna feel old? Lamine Yamal hasn’t even been born yet.
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Stefan Ortega came on for an injured Ederson in the second half of the away games at Liverpool and Spurs. In 55 total minutes, he faced seven shots on target and saved all seven. If he's not perfect off the bench, City don't win the league.
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Premier League title probabilities, based on the odds from @ESPNBet : -Liverpool: 42% -Manchester City: 31% -Arsenal: 27%
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1 year
Diving face-first into the lowest bar imaginable.
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Erik ten Hag on Antony’s return: “I have no idea. Of course he is disappointed, but he is okay”. 🔴🇧🇷 #MUFC
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Filed under: records you don't want your keeper to be setting.
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11 - Matt Turner's 11 saves vs. Brazil are the most by a #USMNT goalkeeper since Tim Howard made 15 saves vs. Belgium in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Stopper.
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Liverpool's last four league games (per @StatsPerform ): -Expected goals: 9.28 -Goals: 5 -Expected goals against: 4.75 -Goals against: 6 That'll do it.
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Ryan O'Hanlon
1 year
Think you see this across all sports. It’s easier for the average fan to relate to the coach, so the sport gets filtered through that lens. Scheme, tactics are what win games. In reality, games are won by players playing well. Titles are won by the teams with the best players.
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Not sure if I should be happy or disturbed that there is at least one living human being who got front-row tickets to see Real Madrid play at the Bernabeu in the Champions League and thought to himself, "Yes, I'm going to wear my Quinnen Williams jersey to the game".
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OK, Jude might actually literally be on fire.
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I’m considering this as confirmation that Sadio Mane purposefully kicked the ball as Sissoko’s hand in the 2019 Champions League final:
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Evan Ferguson’s middle name is “Joe”. Not “Joseph”. Someone with the middle name “Joe” is going to win the Ballon d’Or.
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1 year
If they fit together — no clear six among the trio, but still possibly enough ball-winning on the whole — the Gravenberch/AMac/Szoboszlai midfield could be scary, for a long time.
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Liverpool have agreed a 40m euros fee with Bayern Munich for Ryan Gravenberch. Player flying to Merseyside for medical.
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Lots of Liverpool injuries + great Arsenal performance + worst Liverpool performance this season =
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Arsenal 3 (2.3)-(0.5) 1 Liverpool I took out the big offside chance from Havertz here
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I wrote about Christian Pulisic, who is scoring and assisting goals at a higher rate than Vinicius Junior, Robert Lewandwoski, Julian Alvarez, Bukayo Saka, and Victor Osimhen:
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We're just minutes away from Scotland achieving the greatest feat in all of sports: scoring a goal without attempting a shot.
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Premier League teams are on pace to score about 200 extra goals this season, compared to the average of the previous 15 seasons. What the hell is going on?
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"RELEASE: PGA Tour signs a record, fair-value $3 billion shirt sponsorship deal with legendary Premier League club Newcastle United"
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My big takeaway from BECKHAM is ... that David and Victoria really love each other and have a fantastic relationship?
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After winning the World Cup, Lionel Messi is now faced with the same dilemma that so many great athletes must confront as their careers wind down: profit-sharing with a trillion-dollar corporation or direct funding from a trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund?
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Eighty minutes in against Uruguay, Endrick has attempted zero shots and completed one of four passes. He's so far away from being good enough to start/play for Brazil, let alone Real Madrid, right now.
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I think the USWNT lost because the entire team failed to immediately voice universal approval for the Green New Deal.
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I though Inter were fantastic. Pep and City, meanwhile, figured out the key to winning the Champions League final: allow your opponent to create a ton of chances.
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Could convince me that’s a decent result for everyone: -Liverpool stay ahead of City and now should get healthy. -City get points from their hardest remaining fixture. -Arsenal jump to first. -Neutrals: 10 games left, one point between first and third.
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Ways to win the Champions League, ranked: 1) Be Real Madrid 2) Get a good draw 3) Kick ball in goal 4) Have good players 5) Have a good coach
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9 months
Score doesn’t show it, but that was one of the most lopsided soccer games I’ve ever seen.
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If Klinsmann can massively improve his tactical acumen, finally figure out how to identify which of his players are actually good, and learn how to make it so his players don't hate him and/or each other, I think he could still be a decent manager.
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Tim Spiers
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Stock manager sacked statement: "We wish to place on record our thanks..." South Korean FA: "Klinsmann has failed to display managerial capability and leadership in areas ranging from tactics, personnel management (and) attitude."
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me, when it is my fault:
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PSG president Al-Khelaifi: “Mbappé has said that he will not leave for free. If he changed his mind, it is NOT my fault”. ⚠️🇫🇷 #PSG
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I have now officially scored a goal against a player who has scored a goal against Lionel Messi.
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Should the Premier League step in and adjust the point totals of any teams that get to play against Frank Lampard three times this season? They need to preserve the integrity of the competition.
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1 year
Arsenal collapsed. Also: if Arsenal didn’t collapse, Man City probably still would’ve won the league.
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Solid weekend for Liverpool. Gained a goal of goal difference on Arsenal.
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On my first day as English Football’s Independent Regulator, I promise to impose a strict limit on the number of center backs each team is allowed to play in a given match.
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Gonna let it marinate for a day before I do anything stupid, but I’m seriously considering unleashing a “Jude Bellingham is better than Xherdan Shaqiri” take on the world.
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A coach told me that he used to think that analytics were useless in football. Then he told me that he's never been more wrong about anything in his life. Read about it here:
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ProFootballTalk
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A coach told me earlier today that analytics was just a way for people who never would have gotten jobs in football to get jobs in football. To understand that is to understand why they get so defensive whenever anyone questions analytics.
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Newcastle are missing 10 first-team players (and now 11 with Nick Pope going off):
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Congrats to Thomas Tuchel, who took a team that was winning 2.1 points per game and improved them to a team that was winning 2.1 points per game en route to a Bundesliga title.
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Very interested to see how they deal with reffing in Europe. Newcastle are currently running the Legion of Boom/90s Knicks defense in the PL: be extra physical every time, knowing the refs aren’t going to call every foul. CL games won’t be reffed in the same way.
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Newcastle the grenade lurking in the Champions League draw today. In weakest pot because of lack of recent European experience. Could set up a difficult group for whoever gets them.
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Mikel Arteta’s Brilliant Tactical Tweak May Have Saved Arsenal’s Season (His Players Started Kicking the Ball Into the Goal Again)
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Ryan O'Hanlon
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We're already way past the question of "Can data help you win soccer games?" Now we're onto: "Can data help you win *too many* soccer games?" I wrote about how, for the former owners of Toulouse and the current owners of AC Milan, the answer was"yes".
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We will never truly compete at the highest level until our best athletes start playing basketball.
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Cody Gakpo, who is a forward, is not a midfielder.
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This stat is especially useless in a season where there hasn't been a unified number of games played since August.
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How the top spot has been taken up during the #PL season so far 🤔
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In a first, I wrote a column that led a stranger to accuse me of being on the payroll of the Saudi government. (They were right; I am.) It‘s about Mo Salah, money, memories, and trying to win:
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I ranked all 20 Premier League managers. The criteria? How confident I would be that they would improve the 10th-richest team in the league:
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this little mf has made laugh in disbelief more than anyone other than xherdan shaqiri
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LIONEL ANDRÉS MESSI IS NOT HUMAN.
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I don't think United are a purposefully evil or amoral or corrupt organization. But when you have the money they have and then don't put in any effort with, well anything, you're going to absorb lots of corruption and evil and amorality.
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Michael Caley
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this is, I think, instructive about what's going on at United right now no one did the simplest google search on this guy, no one did the slightest checks with former players, because there's just no structured oversight of anything the football team does
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@billbarnwell smfh you of all people should be admiring how Spain has been wrapping up ball carriers in the open field
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If you're ever feeling like the people running your favorite soccer club are doing an especially bad job, just remind yourself that Joan Laporta and Barcelona still exist.
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Liverpool have the easiest schedule, Manchester City have the hardest, and Arsenal are the only one not favored to win every remaining match. I broke down the final 30 games of the title race:
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I had questions about how well Sergio Busquets would do in MLS. Just five minutes against Cruz Azul confirmed that I am an idiot.
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@billbarnwell unlike football, soccer *is* played on a spreadsheet
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I wrote about Wrexham, the soccer team: -Why are they top of the league? -How good are they? -What are the chances they get promoted again next year? -Can anyone copy anything they're doing? -Will they ever reach the Premier League?
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Funny sport ...
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You: [go to a roast dinner with your family, unconcerned about being the main man] Me:
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Indy Football
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James Maddison: ‘When I go for a roast dinner with my family, I like to be the main man’ @RichJolly
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