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1 week 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 week 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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2 weeks 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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4 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
theanalyst.com | David Segar |Ana Gonzalez |Ana González |Jonathan Manuel
We have dived deep into some Premier League data to find out where teams are shooting from this season. Whether you’re a fan, a neutral, or a student during fresher’s week with more loan money than self control, who doesn’t love a high volume of shots?
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1 month ago | 
theanalyst.com | David Segar |Ana Gonzalez |Ana González
Chelsea have agreed deals with Sporting CP to add youngsters Geovany Quenda and Dário Essugo to their already significant ranks, but what will the Blues eventually be getting? Nothing can stop Chelsea from signing footballers. Not even the fact it’s March. Of course, no players can actually move until the summer transfer window opens, but Sporting CP confirmed on Wednesday that Geovany Quenda and Dário Essugo will be joining Chelsea for around £44 million and £18.4m, respectively.
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1 month ago | 
theanalyst.com | David Segar |Alistair Tweedale
Stat, Viz, Quiz is the Opta Analyst football newsletter. This week’s edition looks at Newcastle United, Leicester City, and a Ruud van Nistelrooy record. It happened. It really finally happened. After so long, with people having waited generations to witness it, it finally happened… Federico Chiesa appeared off the bench for Liverpool after seven consecutive games as an unused sub.
