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Apr 29
Full credit to Enrique & PSG & I love how they play but note:
No. of starts:
Dembele: UCL 9, League 9
Mendes: UCL 15, League 13
Marquinhos: UCL 13, League 9
Hakimi: UCL 12, League 15
Neves: UCL 11, League 12
A massive luxury to have when you have such a squad in such a league.
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Apr 26
Arteta really needs to get better at freezing players out. It’s probably not very effective to freeze a player out giving a player 9 appearances and 5 starts. This went on for months!
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Happy April Fools!
@sports_ref just released a a limited edition, one-day-only line of home goods. You can ***actually*** buy some whacky stuff like shower curtains and throw pillows (the mugs actually look kind of legit.) All proceeds will benefit youth sports!
Link below ⬇️
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Feb 24
Spending 10% of our rivals over a three year period and still competing with them is wild.
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Jan 12
122 games under Unai Emery is still a purple patch apparently.
Feels like the norm to me now.
Brighton and Brentford have more points than you lot over that time.
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Jan 12
Villa fans are enjoying their purple patch I see. Without the key absences we would have won that game easily. Same with the league fixture. They really aren’t all that
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Jan 8
Kenan Yıldız is the only player across all leagues and all ages on the @Stathead database to record 20 Progressive Carries, 10 Shot-Creating Actions and 10 Successful Take-Ons in a single game.
If you make that search a Triple-Double, only four different players have recorded 10 in all three stats in a single Big Five European league game:
✪ Neymar
✪ Lionel Messi
✪ Ousmane Dembélé
✪ Kenan Yıldız
And this stat doesn't even capture the 470 yards of Progressive Carrying Distance, 15 Touches in the Attacking Penalty Area, 8 Passes into the Penalty Area, 7 Carries into the Penalty Area, 6 Shots or 4 Key Passes. Statistically speaking, this is one of the best individual displays we've ever come across.
Read more about the record-breaking display: bit.ly/3L3LAzD
ALT A close-up photo of Kenan Yıldız with a screenshot from Stathead FBRef above his head. The screenshot displays the results for the following query: For single matches, in Men's Club Competitions, in the Big 5 European Leagues, requiring Successful Take-Ons >= 10 and Progressive Carries >= 10 and Shot-Creating Actions >= 10, sorted by descending Progressive Carries.
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Since the start of December, no player has scored more Premier League goals than Ollie Watkins.
Watkins is looking to score in 4 consecutive appearances in the competition for just the third time, and first since April 2023.
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28 Dec 2025
🚨❗ Aston Villa remain the most in form team in Europe's top five leagues since the end of September 😍
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22 Dec 2025
Morgan Rogers is the 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 English player to reach 𝐓𝐄𝐍 goal involvements in the Premier League this season 📊⤵️
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15 Dec 2025
Most goal involvements this season for Aston Villa in all competitions ⤵️
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11 Dec 2025
If anyone can explain why former Arsenal left-back Nuno Tavares is the most-viewed player in the great state of Maine, we're listening 🤯
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10 Dec 2025
Next up: 2025 @fbref team maps
Much more here: info.fbref.com/25_fbref_seas…
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10 Dec 2025
Our soccer maps go global. Here are the most viewed players pages across @fbref. ⚽️
See all of the maps here: info.fbref.com/25_fbref_seas…
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10 Dec 2025
Guys. I saw this chart while also having FBRef open.
Good chance I’m skewing the numbers here.
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10 Dec 2025
Nuno Tavares as the most viewed player in Main is the funniest and most confusing thing I've seen today. Does he have cousins there?
Amazing stuff from @fbref.
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10 Dec 2025
I enjoy @fbref's annual year in review maps. Second year in a row that the Spirit is the most viewed soccer team page in DC!
I would also love to know more about the diehard *checks notes* Paris FC fan holding it down in *checks notes* Arkansas.
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9 Dec 2025
Since Rayan Cherki made his debut as a 15-year-old during the 2019/20 season, only eight players with at least 900 minutes across Europe’s Big Five Leagues in that time have averaged 2.5 Key Passes and 2.5 Passes into the Penalty Area per 90.
Pep Guardiola: "Crosses are fine, right or left or which part of your feet, it doesn't matter. If it is effective it is fine but I like the simplicity because I learned from Messi that he never makes a mistake with the simple things."
Cherki is one of the most effective players of his generation, rabonas and all: bit.ly/4pVcWXc
ALT Two screenshots from Stathead FBRef. The first shows the eight players with at least 900 minutes across Europe’s Big Five Leagues since 2019/20 that have averaged 2.5 Key Passes and 2.5 Passes into the Penalty Area per 90. The second shows players that have recorded 8 Shot-Creating Actions (SCA), 8 Carries into the Final Third (1/3) and 8 Carries into the Penalty Area (CPA) in a Big Five League game since 2017/18.
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7 Dec 2025
Of all goalkeepers to play in 𝐓𝐄𝐍 Premier League games this season, Aston Villa's Emiliano Martinez has the best save percentage (78.6%) 😍
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