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Did a video for @futi.live about Michael Olise, who's pretty good at soccer

one story of the tournament that hasn't quite been picked up is how African teams have outperformed expectations, tonight's results could be when it clicks www.expectinggoals.com/p/even-more-...

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Women's T20I totals by World Cup cycle. Stats are for matches involving teams that qualified for each World Cup. Since the 2024 World Cup, the average 1st innings total has been 155.9, and the average winning total 176.7, both by far the highest for any cycle. #T20WorldCup

Who will win the World Cup? Nobody knows anything. Me starting my @financialtimes.com coverage by explaining why this tournament is much harder to predict than a league or, say, Wimbledon - and which historical patterns give us some sort of guide. My dark horse: Norway. as.ft.com/r/64f7aa71-0...

In this week's newsletter: a sport attempting to solve its ball-in-play 'crisis' and a 2027 World Cup getting underway, amongst other things. You can read and subscribe here:

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new Expecting Goals World Cup Blog I'm blogging again! on England, Uzbekistan, Spain and how the new Adjusted xG works in the PADDLIN' model www.expectinggoals.com/p/world-cup-...

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We launched our comprehensive and visually stunning interactive World Cup player profiles page today. A huge amount of work went into this from loads of people. I wrote about Bruno Fernandes, among others. Check out Stars of Soccer for free here: www.nytimes.com/athletic/int...

Nearly 1 in 4 participants in the 2026 Men's World Cup will have been born in a different country than the one they're representing. That's double from 2018. What a beautiful, globalized game. @benbrindle.bsky.social and I had a good time writing this one up. www.compas.ox.ac.uk/article/has-...