Insights

Accelerations: The Hidden Metric That Shapes Football Performance

«Do players really keep running strong until the final whistle?»

“Your Game or Theirs?”

xPPDA: Rethinking Pressure in Football with a Dynamic, Context-Aware Metric

«Championships Are Won in Enemy Territory»

Do players in Spanish professional soccer leagues maintain match running performance until the end of the match? A 5-minute interval analysis by match participation

“You don’t win titles in August—but you might lose them.”

“Do Teams Really Run More Without the Ball? It Depends on How Long They Have It”

«Knowing a flag is red is not enough. What matters is why it was raised—and how heavy it is.»

Interaction effects between possession status and percentage: insights from modeling match-running performance across possession status in male soccer