xGoals: Changing how we evaluate goalscoring chances ⚽️
Expected goals is a model used by the #DFL subsidiary #SportecSolutions to provide shots on goal with a further element of qualitative analysis ➡️ https://t.co/cC9y5k5O4z
#FocusTomorrow#sportstech
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it’s ok to be black.
it's ok to be asian.
it’s ok to be female.
it’s ok to be male.
it’s ok to be gay.
it’s ok to be straight.
it’s ok to be YOU.
But it's never ok to call football soccer 😉
Paul Pogba & Antoine Griezmann bought themselves & the rest of the World Cup winning squad NBA Championship-style victory rings. | 📸 @MATUIDIBlaise
@FutbolsaCountry@btsportfootball Yesterday and today, I haven’t seen one mention of the ongoing case except this one. Like 97% of discussion was rehashing Messi debates. It means a lot to me that someone didn’t forget and said so.
Preferiría tenerte a mi lado como en los viejos tiempos pero será un placer encontrarnos en un campo de fútbol de nuevo, @Torres !!! Vamos, @vissel_kobe ⚽️🐮💪🏻
Barcelona fans are UPSET about the team’s play as they’re 1) top of the liga 2) alive in the Champions League and 3) in the Copa del Rey final? #ElClásico
WHAT HAPPENED TO FRANCE IN THE 2010 WORLD CUP, a revisionist history: God had set a thirst trap in the form of Yoann Gourcuff’s general existence and the entire team lost their goddamn minds over it.
...But we talk about referees like their weaknesses are immutable and their performance & judgement can’t improve. If we talked about other ref tools like we do VAR, it’d be like, he pointed to the spot to award RMadrid a horrible penalty so I’m against referees having fingers.
People blaming VAR as a technology when it’s used to make a controversial decision are confusing. It’s not MAKING the decision via an algorithm. It’s not mind controlling the referee! Perhaps there’s an argument for anything enabling/exacerbating poor referring being bad...
99 times out of 100 the biggest story of this match would be “Pep Guardiola still doesn’t watch penalty shootouts?” instead of “Whose career is over, Kepa’s or Sarri’s” 😳 #CHEMAN
I’ve begun to have a negative Pavlovian reaction to seeing Kate Abdo on my streams, not because there’s anything wrong with her, but because it means Alexis Lalas or Steve Nash is nearby ☠️
Thoroughly enjoying what constitutes as #LFC news when you’re top of the tables vs when in crisis!! Is this how it felt to be Chelsea while we were losing 6-1 to Stoke on Steven Gerrard’s last match for the club? It’s...so nice
Ffs Real Madrid are going to win the Champions League again. Sergio Ramos will kick a puppy in the final, the puppy will skid into a second ball thrown onto the pitch, the ball will roll into the opposition goal, and the ref will let it stand as the title-winning goal. #AJXRMA