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08 Jun From Movement to Advantage: How AI Can Help Us Understand Player Behaviour in Football

Posted at 13:00h in Research

There is a part of football that still escapes most data. Not the pass.Not the shot.Not the sprint.Not the tackle. The movement before all that. The adjustment before receiving.The run that opens a passing lane.The pause that holds an opponent.The step away from the ball that creates space.The...

22 May How to Detect When a Team Starts Losing Its Defensive Balance

Posted at 19:26h in Research

https://youtube.com/shorts/YlZ8vkAUo5c?feature=share Most tactical problems do not start with the final mistake. They start seconds earlier. A defensive line becomes too stretched.A midfielder arrives late to cover.A full-back jumps to press without compensation behind him.Distances between teammates become too large around the ball. And suddenly, the team loses control of...

17 Nov Do Black Players Really Run More? A Scientific Examination of a Long-Standing Football Myth

Posted at 14:02h in Research

Last Thursday, during a guest lecture I gave at Stanford University’s “Science of MythBusters” course, we explored how scientific reasoning helps test long-standing beliefs by confronting them with rigorous data rather than intuition.A newly published study provides a clear example of this approach applied to...

11 Nov Do Real Madrid and FC Barcelona dominate because they keep the ball—or because they control the space?

Posted at 13:52h in Research

https://youtu.be/EFYyQPsNVkQ Football has long equated dominance with possession.But what if the real indicator of control isn’t how long you keep the ball, but how fast you can reach it? In collaboration between LaLiga’s Football Intelligence & Performance Department, the University of Zaragoza and the Universidad Rey Juan...

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

Posted at 13:51h in Research

Does a team always run more without the ball? This data-driven analysis of over 8,000 LALIGA match records shows that physical effort during in-possession phases can exceed out-of-possession demands—especially when ball possession drops below 36%. Discover how possession percentage reshapes match running performance and what...

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08 Jun From Movement to Advantage: How AI Can Help Us Understand Player Behaviour in Football

22 May How to Detect When a Team Starts Losing Its Defensive Balance

17 Nov Do Black Players Really Run More? A Scientific Examination of a Long-Standing Football Myth

11 Nov Do Real Madrid and FC Barcelona dominate because they keep the ball—or because they control the space?

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