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1 week ago | 
theanalyst.com | David Segar |Oliver Hopkins
With the 2024-25Serie Aseason concluded, it’s time to spotlight the players who excelledacross the campaign. From record-breaking goalkeepers to prolificforwards, here’s Opta Analyst’s Serie A Team of theSeason. The 2024–25 Serie A season concluded with Napoliclinching their fourth Scudetto, edging out Interin a tightly-contested title race. At the other end of the table,Empoli, Venezia and Monza were relegated after challengingcampaigns.
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1 week ago | 
theanalyst.com | David Segar |Oliver Hopkins
With the 2024-25season concluded, we’ve come up with one statistic for eachPremier League team to summarise the story of theircampaign. The 2024-25 Premier League season is at an end, but we can’tbring ourselves to say goodbye to it just yet, not while there’sstill some juicy data to go through. It was an impressive campaign for teams like Liverpool,Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest, while Manchester United,Leicester City, Ipswich Town and Southampton will want to move onfrom it quickly.
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1 week ago | 
theanalyst.com | RYAN BENSON |David Segar |Jamie Kemp |Robbie Dunne
With Spain’s topflight officially done and dusted for the campaign, we look back onit by picking our La Liga Team ofthe Season for 2024-25. Barcelonawere the champions in Spain in 2024-25, securing their 28thtop-flight title with two matches to spare. They dethroned theireternal rivals RealMadrid in the process, who ended the season by parting wayswith legendary manager Carlo Ancelotti, with Xabi Alonso takingover ahead of next season.
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1 month ago | 
theanalyst.com | Matt Furniss |David Segar
Which team will winthe Championshipplay-offs in 2024-25? We assess all four participants in contentionto win the final place in next season’s Premier League with thehelp of Opta supercomputer predictions. BristolCity vs SheffieldUnited. CoventryCity vs Sunderland. Four teams. Two ties. One aim: to reach the so-called promised landof the Premier League.
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1 month ago | 
theanalyst.com | David Segar |Matt Furniss
Stat, Viz, Quiz is the Opta Analyst football newsletter. This week’s edition looks at underachieving teams overachieving in Europe. Jamie Vardy’s latest goal, and English team’s simultaneous success. It’s amazing how quickly football can go from despair to joy, and back again. Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur have had miserable seasons in the Premier League but are on course to face each other in a major European final.
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1 month ago | 
theanalyst.com | David Segar |Matt Furniss
Barcelona are on the hunt for a treble as they come up against a faltering Inter Milan side in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals. We look ahead to the tie by identifying some key elements to keep an eye on. The second of the 2024-25 UEFA Champions League semi-final first legs is played on Wednesday, as Spanish giants Barcelona come up against Italian side Internazionale. The two teams meet at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, before doing it all again at San Siro next Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
theanalyst.com | David Segar |Ana Gonzalez |Ana González
Ahead of Eintracht Frankfurt’s UEFA Europa League quarter-final second leg against Tottenham Hotspur, we look at the rise of star striker Hugo Ekitiké. Hype can build quickly in football. A hot streak from a player can soon lead to links with the biggest clubs, which can lead to pressure and, ultimately, people concluding that the hype was misplaced.
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2 months ago | 
theanalyst.com | David Segar |Oliver Hopkins |Matt Furniss
Arsenal and Real Madrid will face each other in the UEFA Champions League for the first time since 2005-06. We take a look at what the difference makers could be in this mouth-watering quarter-final could be. With Real Madrid so often in the latter stages of the UEFA Champions League, it’s quite surprising that their meeting with Arsenal this week will be their first against the Gunners in 19 years.
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2 months ago | 
theanalyst.com | David Segar |Ana Gonzalez |Ana González
With reports suggesting Trent Alexander-Arnold is set to leave boyhood club Liverpool for Real Madrid when his contract expires this summer, we look at how the Premier League side could replace the seemingly irreplaceable right-back. A significant celebration is expected on Merseyside in late May assuming Liverpool win the Premier League, which they lead by 12 points with nine games remaining.
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2 months ago | 
theanalyst.com | David Segar |Ana Gonzalez |Ana González |Jonathan Manuel
With only a few weeks remaining of the season, we’ve decided it’s time to check in on the Opta supercomputer’s updated League Two predictions and analyse some of the underlying data powering those projections. It has been an especially competitive League Two this season, and with eight games remaining for most teams, as many as nine clubs could consider themselves still in with a chance of automatic promotion.
