Oliver Hopkins

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.

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.

1 week ago | theanalyst.com | RYAN BENSON |Oliver Hopkins

Which teams managedall-time high or all-time low points tallies for the PremierLeague in 2024-25? With the dust now settled on the 2024-25 Premier League season,it’s time to spotlight the teams who’ve set new benchmarks forthemselves – both in a positive and negative fashion. In total, there were eight teams who either recorded theirall-time best points tallies in the Premier League, or theirall-time worst.

1 week ago | theanalyst.com | Oliver Hopkins

We analyse what the 2024-25 PremierLeague table looks like based on Opta’s expected points model;put crudely, what the table ‘should’ look like based on each team’sunderlying numbers. The latest PremierLeague campaign is in the books. Liverpoolwere runaway champions. They’ll be joined in the ChampionsLeague next season by Arsenal,ManchesterCity, Chelseaand Newcastle– who finished second through fifth – as well as Tottenham,who qualify as a result of winning the Europa League.

2 weeks ago | theanalyst.com | RYAN BENSON |Oliver Hopkins |Matt Furniss

TottenhamHotspur lifted their first trophy in 17 years on Wednesday asthey beat ManchesterUnited in the UEFA Europa League final. Here, we look at wherethe game was decided. It wasn’t a classic, but Tottenham fans won’t care. Spurs beat Manchester United 1-0 on Wednesday in Bilbao to win theEuropa League, earning them their first trophy since the 2008EFL Cup.