Category: Team Stats & Analysis

Decoding Como’s Promotion: Soccerment’s Advanced Metrics in the Spotlight on Sky Sport

Once again, Soccerment’s advanced metrics played a crucial role in unlocking the secrets of a football success story. This time, our insights were prominently featured on Sky Sport. This significant exposure underscores our commitment to delivering top-tier football data analytics that shape the way the game is understood and appreciated. In the latest episode, with…

May 16, 2024
Data-driven scouting for Newcastle

After the takeover from PIF, Newcastle United was set to become one of the main players in January’s transfer market. This has indeed been the case, with the Magpies already completing two important signings. In this piece, we use our extensive dataset to scout for interesting players in the positions where Newcastle seems to be…

January 18, 2022
The rejuvenation of Crystal Palace

Last summer came with many changes for Crystal Palace, with the end of Roy Hodgon’s tenure, the appointment of Patrick Vieira as manager and a very busy transfer window, which led to a very interesting team rejuvenation. If we compare the start of the current season with the same period of 2020/21, the Eagles have…

November 17, 2021
[ITA] – "La Juventus che vorrei" secondo la tesi di Andrea Pirlo

La Juventus è una delle squadre più interessanti in Europa in questa stagione. La ragione principale è l’atto di fede compiuto dalla dirigenza bianconera nel nominare il debuttante assoluto Andrea Pirlo come nuovo allenatore; una decisione che sembra urtare con l’approccio storico della Vecchia Signora. La rosa della squadra bianconera sembra essere abbastanza in linea…

September 21, 2020
Juventus under coach Pirlo

Juventus will be one of the most interesting teams to watch in Europe this season. The main reason for our excitement is the leap of faith taken by the top management in naming rookie Andrea Pirlo as the new Head Coach, an appointment that seems to jar with the Old Lady’s historical approach. Juventus’s squad…

September 20, 2020
AZ Alkmaar's Talent Factory

The quantity and quality of players that the AZ Academy is able to promote to the first team every year is outstanding. This is no coincidence, but is the result of a well thought-out long-term plan, structured over the past five years. In this in-depth analysis we look at what distinguishes AZ’s player development process.…

November 28, 2019
Ball possession in European football (part 3)

Final part of our trilogy of posts dedicated to ball possession in European football. We look into the recurring build-up patterns of four top European teams: Barcelona, Man City, Napoli and Bayern Munich. Third part of a trilogy The FIRST PART OF THE TRILOGY (LINK) was an introduction to ball possession. How it is calculated and…

May 14, 2018
Ball possession in European football (part 2)

In this second post of our trilogy on ball possession, we expand the analysis we started in the first part, digging into the build-up habits of the top European teams. We propose the ratio of passes on total touches, as an indicator of “good football”. Napoli are topping the tables on this measure. Man City…

March 9, 2018
Ball possession in European football (part 1)

This is part one of a trilogy of posts dedicated to the role of ball possession in football. In this post, we look at how ball possession is calculated and how the focus on ball possession is often (not always) a synonym of success. We also start digging into the bidirectional causation problem: do the teams play…

January 22, 2018
Crossing: An effective strategy?

Crossing is still very much used by the top European teams (18.6 per match, on average). However, we doubt the efficiency of such an attacking strategy. We calculate that only 1 every 64 crosses is directly translated into a goal. Is it worth trying? We conclude it is not, unless you have someone like Mauro…

November 26, 2017

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