11v11

Spend ten minutes in any football forum and you’ll notice something: fans don’t just watch matches, they quantify them. Goal difference, expected-goals models, head-to-head win percentages — the modern supporter thinks in numbers almost as much as in moments of brilliance. That instinct for odds and outcomes isn’t unique to football. It’s the same mental muscle that drives ev...

A turbulent summer is behind Liverpool. The club appointed Andoni Iraola as their new head coach in June, and since then, Anfield has been undergoing a full reconstruction: of the squad, style, and identity.

Amid all the noise surrounding the rebuild, one of the burning questions was

Sports history is packed with headline moments everyone can recite from memory. Look past those, though, and you’ll run into episodes so odd they hardly sound true. A match settled 149-0, a future NBA star who fought off a lion with nothing but a spear, a volcanic eruption that quietly redirected a transfer. None of it ever lands in the usual highlight package, yet it sticks ...

A team dominates possession for 85 minutes, racks up eighteen shots, hits the post twice, and loses 1-0 to a deflected corner. Every fan has watched a match like this. Every analyst has one bookmarked in memory.

This is one reason football keeps its grip on us even in the era of touch maps, pressing metrics and increasingly detailed statistical models. Chances do no...

Many football bettors are guilty of not being analytical enough when formulating their pre-match predictions.

Emotion is one of the primary elements which often influences decision-making and can ultimately be the route to making consistent losses.

Using football statistics is not guaranteed to deliver winning returns, but does undoubtedly increase your ch...