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The 2024 Bundesliga season kicked off on Friday with Bayern's match against Hoffenheim, in which Bayern won 2-0 after two goals from Jamal Musiala. The well-known rondo was probably also played in the previous preparation, and we conducted a study on this. To get to the paper "Rondo a case for over-constraining in football practice - Analyzing the representativeness of rondo" check out the link. https://lnkd.in/e2iMdEem

My latest article for Total Football Analysis takes a deeper look at Cercle Brugge KSV performance against Genk last weekend, looking at two main tactical trends from Miron Muslic in this match as well as taking a deeper dive into their underperformance of xG over the course of the season and some potential reasons behind it. As always, feedback of any kind is very much appreciated! #football #tactics #tacticalanalysis #scouting https://lnkd.in/eMVpBMNu

Like every year, here are the probabilities for this season's Champions League last 16 draw that will take place on Monday. These probabilities were computed using a Monte Carlo simulation with 1,000,000 paths, replicating UEFA's draw procedure (rules here: https://lnkd.in/dsKPtKju). Here are some interesting facts: - All Spanish and English teams that qualified have finished top of their respective groups, while all Italian teams finished as runners up. This leads to a very open draw this season! - Germany is the only country with group winners and a runner up: Leipzig. This latter can not face Bayern nor Dortmund, nor Man City (same group), and is equally likely to face any of the 5 possible opponents. - FC Copenhagen made it to the last 16 for the second time after the 2010/11 season. Dortmund is their most likely opponent.

DERBYSTAR by SELECT presents the new match ball of the Bundesliga ⚽ The past Bundesliga season has once again inspired us with many spectacular goals. For this reason, our new Bundesliga Brillant APS, the official match ball in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 for the 2024/25 season, gets a new special design. On the light blue pentagons of our traditional 32-panel ball construction, various celebratory poses symbolize the goals and positive emotions we associate with them. “Football is a results-driven sport that is measurable by goals. It’s because of these goals and the emo-tions they evoke that we visit the stadiums and arenas of our favorite clubs or watch the games on screens. Every fan will have their own favorite Bundesliga goal in mind. The new DERBYSTAR Bun-desliga Brillant APS symbolically captures the goal theme with typical celebration poses on the twelve colored pentagons,” says Joachim Böhmer, COO of DERBYSTAR. DERBYSTAR CEO Peter Knap adds: “The Bundesliga sets international standards in terms of the num-ber of goals scored. With the new design, we pay tribute to the goal scorers who enthuse us fans with their goals. At the same time, the cheers that erupt when a goal is scored also symbolize the positive emotions that we regularly experience in popular sports. This is where we bridge the gap between pro-fessional and amateur football. We can’t wait to see the new ball in action in the Bundesliga and Bun-desliga 2, but also on sports and football fields across Germany.” ⚽ IT’S JUST A FOOTBALL – BUT IT MEANS EVERYTHING #selectsport #playerschoice #derbystarbyselect

Leverkusen have gone unbeaten in their last 45 straight matches but they played with 2 teams every game! It’s almost as if Xabi Alonso cast a spell on this dream team this season! The winner of the Bundesliga Cup remained unbeaten throughout the tournament! Sport to me is the greatest metaphor for individuals, for teams - for life. What led to this triumph though? A simple plan, structure. Leverkusen fielded 2 teams every match. 2 teams of 5, one for attack one for defence. 5 players at the back for safety and build-up play and 5 players at the top for pressing and finishing. There were assigned leaders for each group; Team Defence - Granit Xhaka (Passing accuracy 92%), Team Attack - Florian Wirtz (Passing accuracy - 85%) These two players had one task - to find each other thus bringing their unit into play. The most used formation in football is the 4-3-2-1, while this has worked remarkably over the years, it is a complex strategy given its interconnected play. To me, supreme excellence is in simplicity. And teams that can break seemingly complex movements into patterns and sequences will win. The winning formula - 1. Structure, Perfect sequences - keep things simple 2. Passing accuracy - clear and easy roles and expectations 3. Individual class - responsible play Bayer 04 Leverkusen this season - Simple, Structured, Spectacular. Bundesliga International GmbH #Teams #Organisations #Sports #Management #Strategy

2. Bundesliga Celebrating 50 Years with Intense Competition and High Stakes ⚽️ The 2. Bundesliga’s 50th anniversary season kicked off in early August, and it’s already shaping up to be one of the most competitive and closely watched in recent memory. What to Expect This Season: - Tough Competition: With major clubs like HSV, 1. FC Köln, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and FC Schalke 04 in the mix, the battle for promotion is more intense than ever making the race to the top incredibly competitive. - Strong Fan Engagement: The involvement of these historic teams has significantly boosted fan interest, with higher attendance and more media attention across the league. - High Stakes: The goal for these clubs isn’t just promotion but also a return to their former top-tier status, adding extra pressure to each match. As the season progresses, the 2. Bundesliga is proving that it’s a league full of excitement and challenges, with everything to play for. At Above Sports, we're closely following this season and looking forward to seeing how these clubs perform! #Football #Bundesliga2 #SportsBusiness #FanEngagement #AboveSports

🔥⬛🟥Esmond Tapsoba Performance against Bayern Munich. 🌟🇧🇫The 25-year-old Burkinabe Centre-Back standed out for his physical power, defensive actions like tackles, clearances and interceptions, and for providing an assist for the 3-0 goal that give 3 key points to his Team that remains on the top of the Bundesliga with 55 points, 5 more than Bayern Munich. 📶 We have analysed his match with our Data Analysis Method: Fast Gate Access, with a result of 13 key actions. 🤔 Do you think Bayer Leverkusen will win the Bundesliga title this season❓ #bayerleverkusen #bundesliga #bayernmunich #dataanalytics #football

Goals, fairness, fans: a record-breaking first half of the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 season. In brief: Football As It's Meant To Be! Bundesliga has the best fans and football culture, attracting more visitors than ever before: over the first 17 matchdays, the stadium announcers declared a total of more than 10 million fans at the games. With an average of 40,000 spectators per match Bundesliga remains the most-attended league in European football. Even more, with an average attendance of more than 28,000, the Bundesliga 2 is surpassing or close to the average of the other European first leagues. Incredible entertainment on the pitch: in no other top-flight European league was the goal scoring average in each game of 3.3 as high as it was here in Germany. Global stars and local heroes: players such as Harry Kane, Serhou Guirassy or Victor Boniface set new records each matchday. And, Bundesliga is the hotbed for national team players from across the globe as can be seen at AFC Asian Cup and Africa Cup of Nations right now. And the fact that six of Germany’s seven participants in this year’s European club competitions have qualified for the respective next stages also speaks volumes for the league’s quality. Thus, according to UEFA’s five-year coefficient rankings after the first half of this season’s European club competitions, the Bundesliga is ahead of the Premier League (England) and La Liga (Spain). Very much looking forward to part 2... https://lnkd.in/eg9P5-iY

Time for the #TFAArchives! Bayer Leverkusen have officially won their first Bundesliga title. Last month, we used Xabi Alonso’s side for a case study on the principles of fluid attacking: https://lnkd.in/eqHyFcRd Rafael Leão scored one and completed seven successful dribbles to help AC Milan fight back and earn a point at Sassuolo yesterday. Revisit our scout report focusing on his breakthrough 2021/22 campaign: https://lnkd.in/eScx7wgJ Winterthur are impressively up to fourth in the Swiss Super League after defeating Stade Lausanne-Ouchy yesterday. We broke down their attacking efficiency under Patrick Rahmen earlier this term: https://lnkd.in/eMVjxiYg Charles De Ketelaere has declared he’d “be happy to stay” at Atalanta, who have a €23m option to sign him permanently from AC Milan — would this be a good move for all involved? Revisit why the Belgian stood out at Club Brugge back in 2021/22 via a vintage scout report: https://lnkd.in/eum3kNhk And that is it for this today - we will be back in the morning with the latest analysis. #football #analysis #scouting #tactics #soccer #tactical #recruitment #data #analytics #viz