🆕 Shogun Soccer Scouting: A Quick, Early Look at Some Under-20 Players in the 100 Year Vision #JLeague 🇯🇵⚽️ so far! - Kento Hamasaki | #濱﨑健斗 ◆🐮 - Soichiro Mori | #森壮一朗 🔴🟡 ... and more 👀 🔗: www.shogunsoccer.com/p/a-quick-ea... #姫野誠 🟡🟢 #古屋歩夢 🦅🟠🟡 #尹星俊 🟣

Coming out TOMORROW on Shogun Soccer 🇯🇵⚽️: A quick early look 👀 at some Under-20 ** #JLeague players of interest! ** basically born after 2006 (...time flies! 😅)

New profile pic material just dropped

Gives off Tata's Atlanta 1.0 vibes. Ahh the good old days

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, by William Blake, 1803 - 1805 📸 by Catalina Bush @catabush.com [inspo from @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social obvi] #BAONPDX

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Notts County’s Danish data brother owners have transformed the club. They are adamant that sustainable success is the only real success. With director of football Richard Montague, a piece on how you make that possible. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

What a cross by Yui Hasegawa *chef kiss* #JPNvVIE #WAC2026

Not sure why coach Chung decided to rotate the lineup now if the goal is to limit the amount of goals conceded 🤦 #VIEvJPN #WAC2026

That set of results means that there's every chance that a China vs Chinese Taipei quarter-final clash will happen. Expect a lot of fire in Perth 🔥 #WAC2026

It took me a sec, but the xG dashboard is back for 2026! For those who weren't here last season, the dashboard uses @jamonm.bsky.social & @carloncarpenter.bsky.social's WGCF principles to break down MLS shots. Built using @americansocceranalysis.com data. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Finding out about Sonarqube has to be the biggest revelation for me this year so far, makes code refactoring so much better and enjoyable

Gonna be using this gif a lot this season

scoreline like this intrigues me cause it asks the question "is it still a sign of respect to play to a team's full strength when that team is much stronger than the other and are causing more of an humiliation?" #INDvJPN #WAC2026

Don't know if anyone likes to read my tactical notes, but here I am posting one more about the Big Blue (aka Sydney vs Melbourne Victory)!

That was a disappointing, but not surprising result for Vietnam. With not a lot of new ideas being introduced to the team, I just don't think our women's team is that good anymore. Now for damage control against Japan. #TPEvVIE #WAC2026

Love the graphs in our preview episodes? Want to do your own analysis? Pull tables, radars, charts and so much more at ASA VizHub, built by @catabush.com! Look at data for every NWSL player and team going back to 2016. There is nothing else like it on the internet, especially for women's soccer.

"Phil Parkinson is just like Ralf Rangnick, but better."

It’s preview tiiiiiime @catabush.com tells us not to ignore the elephant in the room in Denver and @kierdoyle.bsky.social talks about Boston Internationals. Our friends at @xowngoals.com dropped audio previews for both teams today as well! www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/3/...

Probably one of the areas where it might hurt China in the long run. Without their key players, I feel like the players might be overthinking a bit with their shooting. They can get the ball into good positions, but their accuracy has been way off. #UZBvCHN #WAC2026

Just want to expand this with data just cause I can. She just looked very confident whenever she made a pass and didn't seem to hesitate to look for forward passes or line-breaking passes. Might not've come across on TV but I definitely felt that way watching her live from the stadium. #WAC2026

Mood #PHIvKOR #WAC2026

Hmmm... A heavily-rotated South Korea vs a full-strength Philippines. Interesting matchup. Decent turnout for a very hot and humid day as well. #PHIvKOR #WAC2026

Had a quick idea to sus out the favourites for this year's Women's Asian Cup just by looking at the quality and location of their goal-scoring chances from their first match. And...yup, the numbers agree and correlate well with the tactical stuff that I spotted from the matches. #WAC2026

Honestly, if that match had finished at 1-1, it would've been a very disappointing result for Vietnam. Wasn't the most convincing result and performance considering they were the favourites, but credits to India for putting up a fight. #VIEvIND #WAC2026

When you manually evaluate every shot in the Premier League, you can assess subjective matters with more confidence. Using Better Option %, we look at which players should shoot more, and who should shoot less this season. 👇 www.gradientsports.com/blog/better-...

Recorded presentations from the 2026 ASI Summit are now live on YouTube. To see all of the incredible talks from this year's Summit, visit the link below: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Don't think xG data even matter given how dominant Japan were. Good for the Nadeshiko for getting the ball into the 6-yard box very often, but just like South Korea on Monday, the top teams need to get most of those shots on target. #JPNvTPE #WAC2026

Wrote about Iñigo Pérez and his development at Rayo Vallecano for this week's @thetransferflow.bsky.social newsletter: www.thetransferflow.com/p/a-like-for...

Finally have some free time and mindspace to write, so I wanted to write about what the heck is this project about and why I'm and will be spending a lot of time working on this. 🚨 Warning: a lot of yapping and random thoughts 🚨 🔗: www.talking-tactics.com/p/dev-logs-f...

this entire *tournament* should be a shop window for A-League Women clubs. we’re only a few games in and have already seen some terrific Asian talent. why we don’t lean into the confederation more at our domestic level is beyond me. #AFCWAC

The xG nerds (yes, me too) are gonna have so much fun with this. #CHNvBAN #WAC2026

Thank you Andy Harper for reminding me that Bangladesh is the youngest team in the competition, and their oldest player is only 24 years old. #CHNvBAN #WAC2026

And if you like the idea, it would mean the world if you could wishlist the game on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3799530/...

I'm working on a game where you play as the Virtual Referee! #gamedev #indiegame

re: soccer analytics, if you never learned to code, you still would be better off if you did. Yes, AI will enable you to do things you couldn't before, but what's missed in the learning stage is vital. It's analogous to the difference between learning to code soccer data having never watched soccer

Almost 3 xG accumulated just inside of the first half, along with 16 shots off target that accumulated to 1.63 xG. South Korea definitely could have come away with more than 3 goals. #KORvIRN #WAC2026

the courage and spirit of the Iranian players to do anything at all tonight, with so much chaos and uncertainty unfolding back home, is just remarkable. they should be so, so proud. #KORvIRN #AFCWAC

Probably one of the rare times when I tweet about politics. But ignore all bad narratives that will be made about Iranian fans tonight. They have been nothing but amazing and chanting throughout the match even though their team are losing heavily. Probably deserve a goal too. #KORvIRN #WAC2026

Ji So-yun is good. Even better watching her live. #KORvIRN #WAC2026

Patient, 17-pass build-up from RBNY here – all in the attacking half – ends with CB Justin Che overlapping all the way to the endline for a pullback to the primary assist zone. Just needed a near-post run. This is beautiful, fearless soccer.

Still rooms for improvement for the Tillies in terms of converting chances, especially when a lot of their chances inside of the box were missed. Meanwhile, Philippines' single shot was made by Sara Eggesvik all the way from the other half. #AUSvPHI #WAC2026

I don't know how far I'll get with this, but I'll at least try to have a Simpsons moment for every day of the Women's Asian Cup. Here is Day One. #WAC2026

Niche content: Corinthians Feminino put a player on either side of the box at penalties, rather than having everyone behind the box. I used Pythagoras’ theorem for the first time since my GCSEs and watched 50 saved penalties to see if others should do it too. ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

Finally wrote about ice hockey in my football blog. www.getgoalsideanalytics.com/football-2-0...

This 1H is showcasing why midfield composition and balance not only matters, but why it is critical. That ball is *moving* against a well-organised Philippines team OOP, and not in u-shapey/merely circulatory manner. Gorry and Wheeler exceptional, both penetrating and accounting for EvE. #AUSvPHI

So glad to see the Tillies finally have a good playmaking #6 (Wheeler) and another decent centre-back (Heatley) for them to implement a different build-up idea and take some responsibilities off the veteran players. #AUSvPHI #WAC2026

🌏The Women’s Asian Cup is underway!!! Make sure you are following great journos at the tourney and PLEASEE share more I need to follow too! ➡️ @battledinosaur.bsky.social @shelatneel.bsky.social @thefarpostpod.bsky.social @joeylynchy.bsky.social

Did a bit of extra legwork this morning, so you can see how volume and xG (I have shots, goals, xG/shot, SOT, and PSxG data, too) created out of various types of sequence starts compare. If you create a scatterplot from the summary values of the graphs below from 2025, it looks like this: 1/