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How matches are actually won, explained with the data.

Illustration for the Tactics article “Inter and Club Brugge: format, styles and the Champions League table”: 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
Inter and Club Brugge: format, styles and the Champions League table

Inter against Club Brugge is a Champions League fixture between a Serie A club built on…

2 days ago · Tom Whitfield
Illustration for the Tactics article “Blessin's first task at Gladbach: structure before a derby rebuild”: 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
Blessin's first task at Gladbach: structure before a derby rebuild

Alexander Blessin takes over a Gladbach side that has started badly and is short of fit…

2 days ago · Tom Whitfield
Illustration for the Tactics article “Rennes against Auxerre shows how the Ligue 1 table is built”: 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
Rennes against Auxerre shows how the Ligue 1 table is built

Rennes against Auxerre gets attention because of the Ligue 1 table. Its real interest is…

2 days ago · Tom Whitfield
Illustration for the Tactics article “Watch Virgil van Dijk's Role When Liverpool Meet Manchester City”: 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
Watch Virgil van Dijk's Role When Liverpool Meet Manchester City

To read this fixture, watch Liverpool's back line rather than the ball. Look at where…

2 days ago · Tom Whitfield