Rithwik Rajendran

The most mins a player’s had for them in Ligue 1 is Barcola with 2.18K (27 starts) - for comparison, the players from other teams w/ more mins in their respective leagues:

8 - Barca
8 - Madrid
10 - Liverpool
9 - Arsenal
6 - Inter
4 - Bayern
8 - Leverkusen

Massive gap here.

Mendes had 19 starts (1.68K mins), Doue 18 starts (1.73K mins), Dembele 20 starts (1.73K mins). Most top teams have way more players with over 2K mins in their leagues.

Neither Mendes, Vitinha, Neves, nor Doue have missed a game through injury this season. (Transfermarkt) (Contd.)

PSG’s players have done well all season with club & country, but there's a caveat - they’re playing in Ligue 1, where they have an enormous advantage over everyone else in terms of money & squad. For eg, this league season:

Vitinha had 20 starts (2K mins), Neves had 22 starts (1.85K mins), (contd.)

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Virgil made sure that he kept my 100% Anfield win rate intact.

What a day! 6 points away from glory now.

Wissa’s on 15 non-penalty goals this season in the league now. Mbuemo has 16 including penalties (5).

31 goals between the two is genuinely remarkable. (26 npG)

Only duo with more non-penalty goals in the league are Salah & Diaz (28).

Watching that game has made me feel even more annoyed about losing to PSG ffs

Declan Rice, 2 in 2 worldies. That is incredible

The thing with Arsenal’s set-pieces are that it is not just about the setup alone.

The quality of their set-piece takers (Saka & Rice) is extremely good. The deliveries themselves make the situation so volatile (pace of the delivery + area where it lands).

Time to get back into football analytics again, I think. Need to dust off some old notebooks & automate them.

13 degrees celsius outside but why is it still so chilly? Come on, now.

I absolutely do not get why Harvey Elliott doesn’t get more minutes. Especially in games where we do lack creativity, he’s a massive upgrade over Szoboszlai in-possession.

Funny how the organisations might look at data like this & come to the conclusion that more games in a season is the way to go.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Do the players need better representation (union)? The answer is a LOUD YES!

Anything but making Siri decent, eh?

Yeah this is like one of those instances where one wears a baggy T Shirt & absolutely butchers the look. Just doesn’t fit

All I’m saying is Curtis Jones would never.

The spatialised stereo on the Airpods Pro 2 might be one of the best things I’ve experienced.

Model Distillation

Absolutely!

Well, who knew you could use players outside your regular 14-15 & still get better performances than some of that 14-15.

Surely not Arne. Very frustrating to see him make the same mistakes repeatedly.

Deserved exit! That was a very poor performance in attack & it showed

Think the press got a little less intense as the half went on & that has helped PSG ease in their buildup. They’re cutting through quite well because the press timings have been off at times.

A bit better in the final 3rd please because we’ve still got good moments & Donnarumma is the opposite GK.

Some of these late 2000s away kits in addition surely. (In addition to the ones mentioned in the comments)

And people voted against us in the Wonderkid draft. We got robbed.

Quite unbelievable how well Arne has settled in. The tweaks to make us stronger defensively & also make sure we don’t over exert physically.

I’m not even sure if he’s fully happy with us in the final 3rd because I see a good gap for improvement there despite our strong numbers atm. Exciting times.

I’m out here imagining a world where our attackers bar Salah start to deliver even more & we also fix some of our issues defensively (we do concede good chances in a similar pattern mostly)

Skype closing down, John Cena turning heel. What a weird year already!