Liam Twomey of the Athletic has just done a deep dive on Nicolas Jackson and Christopher Nkunku, with some really interesting thoughts on what could end up being a battle between the two players to be ...

Playmaker Stats is delighted to be working with Brentford again for the 2024/25 season and, in tandem with the popular xG Philosophy account, we are introducing a brand-new feature focused on ...

With more than half of the season gone, we have enough stats to get a good idea of how well Premier League teams have been playing and therefore how things will likely unfold in the months ahead.

Fresh terminology has worked its way into the language of football and is being deployed by coaches, pundits and fans alike, but what does it mean? We are often told that football is a game of ...

In 2017, BBC's Match of the Day introduced a new statistic in their post-match summaries of Premier League matches. Expected goals, or xG, is designed to tell us how many goals a team should have ...