“We are just days away from the Premier League’s return. Saturday’s Community Shield meeting between Manchester City and Manchester United provided us with an amuse-bouche to the main event, but there is still time to build further excitement by asking some key tactical questions that might emerge ahead of the new campaign. To guide our path, The Athletic has picked out some statistical trends from last season with an exciting box of new tools to rifle through — using data from Footovision, an analytics company that uses video broadcast footage to combine event and tracking data to provide new contextual metrics at the team and player level. So, let’s dive in… …”
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