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How matches are actually won, explained with the data.

Illustration for the Tactics article “What is at stake when Morocco meet Gabon in AFCON qualifying?”: an AI-generated editorial illustration showing an empty training ground at dawn with cones and markers laid out, with the headline set over it. Illustrative only, not a photograph of a real event.
Tactics
What is at stake when Morocco meet Gabon in AFCON qualifying?

A Morocco–Gabon meeting in African Cup of Nations qualifying is a group fixture inside a…

26 Sep 2026 · Tom Whitfield
Illustration for the Tactics article “Read a Türkiye–France fixture like a tactics analyst”: an AI-generated editorial illustration showing an empty training ground at dawn with cones and markers laid out, with the headline set over it. Illustrative only, not a photograph of a real event.
Tactics
Read a Türkiye–France fixture like a tactics analyst

A Türkiye–France meeting turns on two structural questions rather than reputations: who…

26 Sep 2026 · Tom Whitfield
Illustration for the Tactics article “The Nations League meeting between Italy and Belgium”: an AI-generated editorial illustration showing an empty training ground at dawn with cones and markers laid out, with the headline set over it. Illustrative only, not a photograph of a real event.
Tactics
The Nations League meeting between Italy and Belgium

Italy against Belgium is a meeting of two of Europe's most systematised football…

26 Sep 2026 · Tom Whitfield
Illustration for the Tactics article “The tactical shape of a Turkey–France international fixture”: an AI-generated editorial illustration showing a scene illustrating the subject of the article, with the headline set over it. Illustrative only, not a photograph of a real event.
Tactics
The tactical shape of a Turkey–France international fixture

Turkey and France are familiar European qualifying opponents, and the meeting is shaped…

26 Sep 2026 · Tom Whitfield