The 1954 World Cup-winning German manager Sepp Herberger repeatedly leaned upon the simple line: “The ball is round.”
Those four words capture the myriad of intricacies which litter this wonderful and devilishly unpredictable game. There is always going to be an inherent sense of randomness involved in a sport played with a round ball exclusively controlled by an instrument as blunt as the human foot.
The shape of the ball has not changed in the seven decades since Herberger’s peak, but the sophistication of analysis predicting what could happen to that slippery orb has certainly improved.
Drawing upon an unrivalled wealth of historical data, have created a hub of player-specific predictions for each game across the upcoming round of Premier League fixtures. Everything from the number of shots to the likelihood of a yellow card is tallied, as well as the most important aspect of the sport: who is going to score.
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