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4/23/2024
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All of Manchester United's Signings Under Erik ten Hag, Ranked
Sunday's FA Cup semifinal “win” over Coventry City really felt like the end of an era at Manchester United. So, I decided to look back at all 16 players who joined the club during that era. Erik
4/19/2024
15 : 44
Will Barcelona Ever Catch Real Madrid?
The final El Clasico — the final “The Classic” — of the season is on Sunday. Real Madrid are flying, while Barcelona are dying/crying/lying/whatevever-other-term-with-a-negative-connotation-rhymes-with
4/16/2024
17 : 24
How Liverpool's Season Started to Fall Apart
And it was all going so well. A little over a week ago, Liverpool were the favorites to win the Premier League and the Champions League. Today, they're relative longshots to win either one — let
4/16/2024
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4/13/2024
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Why This Arsenal Might Be the Best Arsenal We've Ever Seen
Famously, the 2003-04 version of Arsenal played 38 Premier League games and didn't lose a single one. I wrote about why this season's Arsenal, who've already lost four times, might be even
3/29/2024
16 : 24
Is Harry Kane Cursed? An In-Depth Investigation
When I started this piece, I figured all the threads would lead back to a specific moment in April 2018: when Harry Kane claimed a somewhat dubious-looking goal by saying, “I sweat on my daughter's
3/26/2024
17 : 54
Everything You Need to Know About the Premier League Title Race
OK, not everything. But I looked at every game Liverpool, Manchester City, and Arsenal still have to play — and then I ranked them all, in order of difficulty: City's non-penalty xG differential at
3/22/2024
17 : 24
Why Is European Soccer Still So, Uh, I Don't Know, Dumb?
A couple weeks ago, I moderated a panel at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference with the following people: -Sarah Rudd, co-founder of src | ftbl, former head of analytics at Arsenal -Ian Graham,
3/20/2024
16 : 54
Is Gregg Berhalter Good? And Why Are Premier League Teams Scoring So Many Goals?
After a week off, I've got two for you today. The first: My colleague Jeff Carlisle and I explored a question that lots of angry USMNT fans on the Internet seem to be quite sure of: Is Gregg
3/8/2024
17 : 54
How Klopp, Pep, and Klopp-v-Pep Changed Soccer Forever
One last time, huh? Ahead of Sunday's game at Anfield, I wrote about the managers for Liverpool and Manchester City: Although Pep's City are further than ever from Klopp's heavy-metal
3/5/2024
17 : 34
The 50 Best American Soccer Players Right Now, Ranked
I was tasked with coming up with a way to rank the club performance of every male American soccer player. To do so, I relied on my two favorite metrics for player performance: 1) Are you playing? And 2
3/1/2024
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Can Manchester United Ever Catch Manchester City? And if So, How?
Betteridge's Law of Headlines, try to answer that! Ahead of this weekend's Manchester derby, I wrote about how the bad team might one day reach the level of the good team: Casemiro, 32, and
2/27/2024
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Why Bukayo Saka Is the Next [READ PIECE TO LEARN WHICH SUPERSTAR]
Bukayo Saka: pretty good at soccer! I wrote about how he's, very quietly, made the leap into a new level of stardom this season: Outside of Saka, pretty much every attacker on Arsenal is scoring
2/19/2024
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The Premier League, Ranked, Vol. 5
Bill Connelly and I are back on our BS with the latest round of our Premier League re-ranking. You'll never guess who's number 1: After sputtering through the first third of the season mostly
2/13/2024
18 : 24
Why Lionel Messi Will and Won't Win the Champions League
I'm back — sorry for the weeklong silence. I was in London last week for work. Also, I saw Darwin Nunez score a goal … IN PERSON. It was the most “10/10, would recommend” experience that I've
2/10/2024
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2/2/2024
16 : 44
So, How's the Greatest American Soccer Player of All Time Doing?
I wrote about Christian Pulisic's weird and weirdly under-discussed season with AC Milan: Put simply, Pulisic has been one of the most productive, ever-present attackers in Serie A so far this
1/30/2024
17 : 44
Why Liverpool Should Replace Jurgen Klopp With ...
Sorry I missed last Friday. Busy day, turns out. I wrote about what happened on Friday, today: Outside of Manchester City's Pep Guardiola, [Jurgen] Klopp has no peers among his managerial