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[Spanish Football Analytics @SF_Analytics_]

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New La Liga season is less than 24 hours away,

Ahead of the new season, I thought it would be interesting to look at how each team's league position has fluctuated since 2000; to almost see how each team got where they are

So, in alphabetical order...

[Spanish Football Analytics @SF_Analytics_]

Appreciate this account is not active anymore but putting this on here as some people may find this interesting.

I recently wrote about the UK’s proposed independent football regulator and the need for a moral reckoning in top-level football:

https://t.co/MxWEjxl7RU

[Guardian sport @guardian_sport]

Vinícius Júnior and why it’s time to stop talking about the football.

By @sidlowe https://t.co/GMlEWITNos

[Robbie Dunne @robbiejdunne]

The talent in that top left corner for Real Madrid is mad. Six players who could become the best in the world at their positions and majority of them not even in their prime yet.

[Spanish Football Analytics @SF_Analytics_]

@analyticsLaLiga yeah just need to sort a grad job and then the dust will settle up and then back to posting and a catch up needed!

[Spanish Football Analytics @SF_Analytics_]

@analyticsLaLiga i need to get back on it! finding it hard to balance things but hoping to get back to it once things are more settled. hope you are well

[Spanish Football Analytics @SF_Analytics_]

@analyticsLaLiga huge congrats man

[La Pausa @lapausa_fc]

Top 10 players for attacking sequence involvement in Segunda this season (per 90 averages).

No surprise to see the players at the top, but interesting that Adrià Altimira makes the list as the only defender on there. The ex-Barça man having a very good season at RB for Andorra.

[Ben Griffis @BeGriffis]

What La Liga teams might be really good at defending their box in open play?

Looking at the end locations of opponent passes in the final 3rd & % of completions into box can help us

Mallorca/Getafe allow very few completions into the box. Almería/Real Valladolid the opposite

[Mehedi Hassan @MHassanFootball]

Short Thread: Football Visualisations. Where do you get started?

A great (more like the best) place to start is watching tutorials made by @mckayjohns. I started with this.
YT: https://t.co/LlO7jtpgkI

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[Spanish Football Analytics @SF_Analytics_]

@MHassanFootball @markrstats @Odriozolite @jdeposicion @analyticsLaLiga @UtdArena thanks for including us in this mate, despite my recent inactivity. hoping to get back to posting regularly soon once i’ve sorted a grad job. hope you’re all well mehedi.

[Ben Griffis @BeGriffis]

La Liga players with the most successful dribbles so far, per Opta

📊 But also all their dribbles visualized on the pitch

🥇 Vinícius Júnior (75)
🥈 Javi Galán (51)
🥉 Samuel Chukwueze (49)
4⃣ Sergi Dardar (45)

#LaLiga #LaLigaSantander

[Ben Griffis @BeGriffis]

La Liga's most dangerous passers by the PDI

[Ben Griffis @BeGriffis]

Lee Dixon:

“João Felix is going to have to learn this isn’t Spanish football; that might be a free kick any day in Spain but not here. This is the the Premier League.”

Said so matter of factly.

Premier League elitism is truly disgusting

[Spanish Football Analytics @SF_Analytics_]

@NealGardner_ hahaha tell me about it

[Football España @footballespana_]

La Liga's updated salary limits after the winter transfer window.

Atletico Madrid's has shrunk the most, with €26m less than they started the season.

Meanwhile Real Betis and Valencia gained the most, with around €4m extra at their disposal.

[Hudl Statsbomb ES @StatsbombES]

En las últimas 10 jornadas de la Segunda División (#LaLigaSmartBank) ningún equipo ha sacado más puntos (21) que el Albacete.

El equipo de Rubén Albés también tiene la mejor diferencia de goles esperados (xG - xG concedido) en dicho período

[Robbie Dunne @robbiejdunne]

Antoine Griezmann was everythwere tonight.

Led Atlético in:

Clearances (5)
Passes in final third (30)
Successful dribbles (5)
Duels (18)
Duels won (12)

[Spanish Football Analytics @SF_Analytics_]

@juliocosta_lisb this stresses me out haha

[Yash @Odriozolite]

Dani Ceballos vs Elche | La Liga 22-23

Ceballos has become vital for Real Madrid now. He ability to act as a tempo setter, his vertical line breaking passing & progression on the ball makes him such an important asset. Works hard off the ball as well.

[Spanish Football Analytics @SF_Analytics_]

only 2 of them started tonight. how are they supposed to compete against other elite teams with 3 of them

[Spanish Football Analytics @SF_Analytics_]

at what point do psg try to win the champions league without three forwards who do no defensive work.

sure, you can afford to have one of messi, neymar or mbappe but 3 just seems excessive- especially considering football is becoming more and more about systems