Slot on Liverpool having plenty of possession but struggling to generate more chances - 24/04/26

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"In essence, for a one-unit decrease in meters per minute of a player during a game, the likelihood of the coach's dismissal increases by 32.4% [OR = 0.676, 95% CI (0.474–0.964)]." (Sousa et al., 2023)

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Le Bris on his biggest challenge this season 🗣️ #safc

New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Var hates goalies

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when coaches struggle to explain their approach it's a massive red flag imo (this was post Palace in Jan)

Trapattoni himself is fond of the comment that “𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒏, 𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 10 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 50 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆,” a sentiment with which most Ireland fans will readily agree.

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this chelsea shape l o l

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treating it like pre-season

This wannabe VAR-lite/coach challenge system in the CPL remains the biggest waste of time. #canpl

another copy paste

I'm even more concerned since he openly equated 3412~ to 433. Stunned.

Slot full send Harvey Dent with this back 5 and long throws "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

is that the Monaco copy paste

Which teams might be "on the beach" before the season ends? 🏖️ Simulating the PL run-in → % chance teams are mathematically locked into an outcome tier (title, Europe, relegation, etc) by each #FPL GW Ordered by most at risk 👇

If and 'big' if Liverpool are not playing 4 at the back, then good luck if it's not Gomez LCB.

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considering the way Liverpool have played this season, kinda funny how they've been offside the most

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It's gonna be a fun Data Science Lab tomorrow! @damiepak.bsky.social, @markjrieke.bsky.social , and Sam Parmar are going to walk through some fun data science projects that they have worked on. (Can you guess what they are about below?!) Join the party: pos.it/dslab

Liverpool's defensive base structure has been such a mess this season that when the manager decided to change it up, a whole game went by and no one hardly noticed...and then the manager had to tell people they actually played a diamond.

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

nothing will make me tune out quicker than watching a worse and more ridiculous version of VAR (FVS) waste everybody's time. No thank you. #canpl

cpl watchers: has defending free kicks been hard/weird? #canpl #cpl

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was it almost 6 minutes for the first challenge?

I don't think I've seen a more narrow front three than this Forge setup

Slot hasn't got a clue how to defend but will blame losses on not having Isak

one thing that happens when good teams become bad quickly is that supporters have a hard time assessing what 'good' looks like anymore and incorrectly assume that not imploding for the first part of games means something positive for sure

as if Slot thought this would work

another funny thing Liverpool keep doing this season is having huge swings with in and out of possession shapes (by choice) so it really exposes their physical and tactical shortcomings even more

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still concerned

wish bluesky had a poll feature