The American data based news website FiveThirtyEight showcases their football predictions for most of the leagues in Europe and across the world here. Though these predictions are at times divisive, the models they use to estimate individual match performances are founded on strong principles. They use three metrics to evaluate…

When the starting eleven of Liverpool Football Club was named by Jürgen Klopp for the FA Cup game at Aston Villa, there were many eyebrows raised at the apparent strength of it. For a game against virtually an U-18 Villa side, in a season ravaged by injuries and thickly scheduled…

The narrative of home support in football is in its power to push their teams to score more goals and hence lead to victories. But what does the data from the experiment of football with no fans show us? Project Restart of the English Premier League led to the 2019–20…

I love Liverpool Football Club (LFC) and football, in that order. Through my years of supporting the club, I have seen great goal scorers in the 21st century. From Michael Owen’s fast-burning rise and fall to Mohamed Salah’s Liverpool kingdom. Since not all goals are equal in the context of…