11tegen11
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11tegen11
@11tegen11
Data scouting expert | Consulting to professional football clubs | xGplots & passmaps on @11tegen11_plots | Co-founder @Betweentheposts | elftegenelf at gmail
Joined July 2010
- Ha, @Skysports liked my passmap so much they made sure to cut the 11tegen11 logo off... Well done, guys.
- Xhaka deep, and Cazorla advanced, next to Özil. There really very little to improve on this picture. #passmap
- Let's go over some early #EPL numbers, starting with Expected Goals per match. Already, we see City are in a league of their own. Liverpool are a firm second, and then we see... Wolves. Arsenal and Manchester United are in obscure mediocrity here.
- Manchester United consistely getting results despite opponents having equal or better chances is setting the stage for a fascinating turn of events. Ole would be smart to turn down the job of regular manager & have this unlikely spell define his reputation
- Replying to @11tegen11About as dominant as a #passmap can be. Barcelona's tiki-taka controlled the center of the pitch and dominated territory completely.
- By now most teams around the world have 'someone doing something with data'. And that's not going to sort any effect. Hire smart people, structure your decision making, run it like a business. Money invested in smarter decisions is money well spent.Brighton spends £3m a year on data consultancy to help their recruitment team to get the right players. A single wrong transfer at PL level can cost £50m in fees/wages. Yet a lot of clubs would choke at the idea of spending 3% of that on data services.
- I've seen a sh*tload of xGplots of the years, but rarely do you witness a 0-5 win going against xG, by a lot.
- If ever a match could convince people that tactics / the manager matters, it was this one. The utterly unpreparedness of Belgium.
