Mátrai Márk

Data Analyst⚽️📊
Sports Event Organiser🏟

[Mátrai Márk @MatraiMark]

Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé continued where they left off four years ago in the final.

Two all-time great players, both of them perform amazingly well in all of their World Cups historically.

As usual, Messi is at the top-right end of the visualisations.

[Mátrai Márk @MatraiMark]

Saudi Arabia were able to eke out a draw against Uruguay, which makes Spain and Cape Verde delighted. Game state also dictated Uruguay's dominance that the numbers show, but the 0.44 xG difference is just not enough of a gap to call the draw lucky/unlucky.

Source: FIFA

[Mátrai Márk @MatraiMark]

Frenkie de Jong is one of the best tempo-setting midfielders in the world. His line-breaking passing, carrying, ball circulating, and tempo shifting qualities are essential for The Netherlands' attacking game.

Source: FIFA

[Mátrai Márk @MatraiMark]

🇧🇷's drop-off from an ELO Rating persepctive has been significant for a while now.

The World Cup has just started, so they have an opportunity to reverse this trendline, but the game vs Morocco wasn't a dominant performance.

I'm yearning for Futebol Arte..

Source: Eloclub

[Mátrai Márk @MatraiMark]

🇰🇷 was impressive in-possession, difference seen in the long-ball rate. It centralised its gameplan on solutions on the ball in open-play.

🇺🇸 high-press and the mid-press rates were twice as high, this forced 🇵🇾 into a mid-block or a low-block.

Source: FIFA

[Marc Lamberts @marclamberts]

Radar charts aren't inherently bad, but the choices in data visualisation usually are. About, radar charts, data manipulations and data literacy.

https://t.co/mRegJbTI61

[Scouting Stats @ScoutingStatsAI]

We've opened up free access to the full player database for World Cup 2026.

All 1,248 players. All 48 squads. Every one rolled up across their whole club season, with the option to switch to country form. 40+ metrics, sortable and filterable by position, competition, age and minutes, totals or per 90.

See exactly who's in form heading into the tournament, then build your own top-10 graphic from any stat.

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[Mike Sielski @MikeSielski]

https://t.co/111w0XLlZg

[Mátrai Márk @MatraiMark]

@MeiaArmador__ Where would you put Iraola?

[Brendan Boyle @BrendyBoyle]

I love the angle taken by @kenearlys on the Champions League final.

He’s absolutely right to dedicate so much time to how Arsenal waste time 🗑️

The drinking water and human life lines 🤣

[Alex Barth @RealAlexBarth]

Team Theo here

[Baxter Holmes @Baxter]

NEW: In the age of analytics, one area has long remained especially elusive.

"How do you measure fear?" one Western Conference analytics staffer asks.

Enter Victor Wembanyama.

Says another analytics staffer: "What he does best is hard to quantify."

https://t.co/dssOgqAwxJ

[El Confidencial @elconfidencial]

Real Madrid: Klopp y Haaland, los dos cromos para volver a ganar de Enrique Riquelme.

El empresario, que será rival de Florentino Pérez en las elecciones a la presidencia del Real Madrid, ya sabe con qué piezas quiere contar en el plano deportivo
https://t.co/t7HpgWu20c

[Rob Pizzola @robpizzola]

Modeling is the part of sports betting nobody wants to talk about because it's hard and most people are doing it wrong. Sat down with @PlusEVAnalytics to walk through how sharp bettors actually approach it. Worth your time if you're serious about this stuff.

[Pedro Servin @pepe_servin]

“Los sistemas ya no existen, ​​se trata de los espacios que deja el rival" Spalletti resume la tendencia actual.
Equipos que defienden hombre a hombre sufren ante esta movilidad. En el video: Vitinha, Neves y Emery rotando para desarticular al Bayern.
https://t.co/lUwIHziJ5g

[Mátrai Márk @MatraiMark]

Yan Diomandé (RB Leipzig) will be one of the most sought-after players on the transfer market this summer. I compared his league season with Kylian Mbappé's breakout season, adjusting for league-quality.

Source: Understat
Source for VAEP analysis: https://t.co/INmAxQ62SB

[Mátrai Márk @MatraiMark]

@Anfieldlnsider @Ogie_Halfhand June 25th is their last group game. I don't think it's feasible to wait that long with a decision and appointment like this.

[Jobs In Football @JobsInFootball]

The role of data and analytics within football has grown demonstrably in recent years. As a result, work opportunities within this side of the game continue to grow.

Here, we take a look a look at some easy steps to help you get started!

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[Shane Henry @Hirald0]

Some loose parallels here with football / others sports generally in evolution of style and player types. Over time the game does basically become more advanced, but it’s more paper/scissors/rock in adjusting to whatever challenge is at hand than a straight progression upwards.

[Mátrai Márk @MatraiMark]

@Anfieldlnsider @HendrickD82