Tom Harrison

10 ways that football clubs should be using analytics How teams can create advantages over their opponents

✍️ 10 ways that football clubs should be using analytics

🆕Recruitment & contracts

✅Pre-game, live, collective & individual analysis

❓Predicting young player potential

📈Training data & overall trends

👇Exploring each type with Liga MX case studies

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Is Alexis Gutiérrez good enough for Club América? Cruz Azul have done well to get a significant fee for Gutiérrez

✍️ Is Alexis Gutiérrez good enough for América?

▫️Less attacking output than current options Álvaro Fidalgo & Érick Sánchez

▫️Very little impact in build-up

▫️Few dribbles, lots of sideways/backwards passes

👇Complete analysis of América's new signing

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Re-building Juárez Analyzing the Juárez squad after their best-ever Liga MX season, and signings to strengthen for the future

✍️ Re-building Juárez: Where should they try to strengthen?

▫️Left-back options to replace Orquin
▫️Replacement if Campillo leaves
▫️How to improve central creation
▫️Better striker than Zaldívar

Article analyzing the squad & possible signings below 👇

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Re-building América Analyzing the squad, their disappointing season, and options to strengthen the side

✍ Re-building Club América: Where should they try to strengthen?

▫️ Orquín should take Chicote's minutes

▫️ Another midfielder to boost options?

▫️ A direct replacement if Brian leaves

▫️ Various options to improve cover out wide

Article below 👇

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Re-building León Analyzing the squad and possible signings ahead of Apertura 2025

✍️ Re-building León: Where should they try to strengthen?

▫️Left-back with more attacking output
▫️A better ball-winning midfielder
▫️Younger wingers to add creativity
▫️Backup striker options

👇 Link below, analyzing the squad & potential signings

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Thanks Jon!

That's true, I'd forgotten how much Pizarro played this season to be honest, 8 starts in the league!

Enjoying this series from Tom.

I would take the question mark off the new striker, though I agree it's wise to not set out to find 'a new Gignac'

It's also still very funny that Pizarro needs to replace a lot of the production he himself was providing over the last several tournaments.

Re-building Tigres Analyzing the squad, and how Guido Pizarro can improve performances next season

✍️ Re-building Tigres: What does Guido Pizarro need to improve next season?

▫️ A holding-midfielder to replace Carioca
▫️ More creativity in the squad
▫️ A new striker?

👇 Analyzing the squad, the contract decisions and potential signings

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Thanks and credit to @thetransferflow.bsky.social for inspiring the re-building article/series, with their excellent pieces on Premier League clubs

Re-building Pumas Analyzing the profiles that they should be targeting this summer

🆕 Re-building Pumas 👇

✍️ Analyzing the current situation, squad, and profiles they should be looking for

⬆️ Improvements needed at full-back

❌ Why Héctor Moreno shouldn't be signed

💪 Assessing defensive midfield options

⬅️ Ruvalcaba should stay

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The most frequent passes for every Liga MX team One method of analyzing the build-up phase

✍️ The most frequent passes for every Liga MX team

▫️Using StatsBomb's pass clustering graphic to analyze build-ups

▫️Brunetta's passing tendency leads to Tigres attacking more on the right

▫️Necaxa the most direct side in liguilla

👇 Full analysis

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Lucas Ocampos: A disappointing season or bad signing? Rayados invested heavily in a player who passed his peak age in 2022

✍️ Lucas Ocampos: A disappointing season or a bad signing?

❌ 0 goals or assists in 15 of his 18 starts

📉 His output had already declined greatly in La Liga, did Rayados fail to analyze this drop, and the impact of age curves?

👇 Full article below

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19yr old Elias Montiel tonight against Monterrey. Excited for his future. He was a big topic in my podcast this week with @tomh36.bsky.social

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Parity in Liga MX has reduced For the first time in a short season, two teams finished on less than ten points

🆕 Article 👉 Analyzing the fall in parity in Liga MX 👇

🔷 Clausura 23 was the 1st season with 6 teams reaching 30 points

🔷 It's happened 3 more times since

🔷 2 teams under 10 points this season

🔷 Financial inequality to blame? Removing relegation?

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Nicolás Larcamón hasn't actually improved Necaxa Los Rayos have won 9 more points than their underlying numbers suggest

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🔴Necaxa are the most improved Liga MX team this season, right? Well, not really

❌No improvement in their xG difference

📈A story of xG under-performance becoming xG over-performance

❓But given a change in style, is this still a success?

Read 👇

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🎙️ @thecolorfulkit.com and I talking through a list of the most exciting young Mexicans in Liga MX right now.

Plus we get sidetracked on the youth minutes rule, contract decisions, and how teams can analyze their fuerzas básicas talents.

Check it out 👇

Liga MX Clausura 2025: Team of the Season With a maximum of one player per team...

✍️ My team of the season for Liga MX Clausura 2025...but with just 1 player per team 👇

🔵 A 39-year-old keeper

🔴 The full/wing-back who's ready to make a step-up

🟡 How Fidalgo became even more influential

🔴 The stand-out Mexican player this season

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Jornada 16 Review Chivas or Pumas for the last play-in spot, América lose to Monterrey

Full article and comments on every match 👇

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▫️ The Diego Valdés false-9 experiment hasn't worked. América's attack has been less effective & they only shot 7 times vs Rayados.

A key issue is that Valdés doesn't have the ability to create shots from very high xG locations, close to the goal, like América's other strikers.

Dávila should start.

▫️ Toluca switched to a back-5 vs San Luis, and exploited attacking transitions.

For example, before scoring, Jesús Gallardo recognized the possibility of a midfield recovery, and started an attacking run, leaving his marking responsibility.

With separation created, Gallardo could score from a 1vs1

▫️ Nicolás Larcamón needs to be careful with his attacker's decision making in the final 3rd.

They've outscored their xG recently, but it's not sustainable & Necaxa gave the ball away in the 1st half with shots from very far out.

With some better shot locations in the 2nd half, Necaxa scored twice.

3 tactical/analytical takeaways from Liga MX Jornada 16 🧵👇

Jornada 16 Review Chivas or Pumas for the last play-in spot, América lose to Monterrey

✍️ Data & tactical review of Liga MX Jornada 16 👇

⬇️ 5 games without winning for América, it seems that the Valdés false-9 experiment isn't working

⬆️ Toluca secure 1st place, switching to a back-5 to beat San Luis

🔴🔵Chivas or Pumas for the last spot

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Who's going to sign Efraín Álvarez? Analyzing the Mexican winger, his strengths, how he can improve, and his options this summer

✍️ Efraín Álvarez may be in high demand this summer, where could he move to?

⬅️ Left-footed right-wingers are rare & often key for tactical ideas

✅ Frequent creator, able to cross with little space

❔ Analyzing his options in Liga MX

👇 Article below

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Jornada 15 Review Late comeback win for Tigres in the clásico, eight-goal thriller in Aguascalientes, whilst Toluca go top

✍️ Article reviewing Liga MX Jornada 15 👇

🐯 Late Tigres comeback in the clásico, as indiscipline hurts Rayados

🐐 Analyzing Chivas' problems out of possession

⬇️ América's attack struggles again versus Cruz Azul

⚽ 8 goal thriller in Aguascalientes

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Why do so many of Luka Romero's shots get blocked? Two-thirds of his shots have been blocked, as Romero's only scored one Liga MX goal

❌ Two-thirds of Luka Romero's shots with Cruz Azul have been blocked, what's he doing wrong? 👇

▫️Tries to shoot with power, using a long run-up & back-lift

▫️His shooting action takes a long time

▫️Poor decision making, shooting when he should pass

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The defensive tactics behind Juárez's success Los Bravos have reached more than 20 points for the first time

✍️ Analyzing the defensive tactics behind a successful Juárez season 👇

5️⃣ Using the left-winger to create a back-5 in their low block

✅ Improved performances after adjusting their 1st line of pressure

📈 Impact of a short-term xG over-performance

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Champions Cup Quarter-final previews All to play for after three first legs were drawn

✍️ Previewing the second legs of the Champions Cup quarter-finals 👇

🟡 Will Jardine stick with a back-five? And can Cruz Azul break them down?

⚪ How LA Galaxy tried to hit Tigres in counter-attacks

🔵 Vancouver's rotations & how Pumas adjusted

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Jornada 14 Review Cruz Azul, Necaxa and Toluca continue winning runs, Chivas lose in Monterrey

Analysis and data from all nine matches in English 👇

Y en Español 👉 cambiodejuego.beehiiv.com/p/el-resumen...

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3️⃣ Atlas struggled to progress the ball against Juárez, with 34 final 3rd entries their worst this season.

Juárez adjusted well to press the Atlas back-3, but Pineda's side lacked occupation of spaces in midfield or between the lines. With few options, it was easy to force low-percentage long balls.