Daily Archives: December 31, 2024

Ranking every team in England’s top four divisions based on their performance in 2024

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“English football in 2024 served up a bit of everything: stunning strikes, comical own goals, baffling errors, refereeing controversies, promotions, relegations, trophies lifted, CVs sifted and much more besides. So as 2024 draws to a close, we have decided ignore those opposed to calendar-year stats and unify all 94 teams (yes, Sutton United and Forest Green Rovers, you may no longer be in the EFL but we haven’t forgotten your efforts between January and May), even if it is only for a few hours before yet more football gets under way on New Year’s Day. You can sort the main table by games played (which includes play-off games), wins, defeats, win percentage and points per game (the latter excludes play-off games, for obvious reasons). Click on a column header to sort by that category. …”
NY Times/The Athletic

Mohamed Salah: The best season of any Premier League attacker ever and the numbers that prove it

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“Mohamed Salah is having the greatest Premier League season for an attacker ever. Opinion? No. This is a fact. The Liverpool star sits at the top of the list for the best minute-to-goal-contribution ratio of any Premier League player and shows no signs of slowing down though he turns 33 in June. Salah’s 30 goal contributions in 18 appearances means he is averaging a goal or an assist every 52.7 minutes, six fewer than the second-best (Gabriel Jesus, Manchester City 2016-17, 59.1) and 10 better than Erling Haaland for City last season, the closest player on the list who had also played more than 1,000 minutes. …”
NY Times/The Athletic
Guardian: Why did it come to this with Salah, Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold contracts at Liverpool
NY Times/The Athletic – West Ham 0 Liverpool 5: Breaking down Salah’s extraordinary assist and why Diaz is scoring

Spain: 2024-25 La Liga – Location-map, with 3 charts: Attendance etc.

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“… The map. The map page shows a location-map for the 20 clubs in the 2024-25 La Liga, with recently-promoted and -relegated teams noted. (Promoted in 2024: Valladolid, Leganés, Espanyol. Relegated in 2024: Cádiz, Almería, Granada.) The map also shows the 17 Autonomous Communities of Spain, and the 20 largest Spanish metropolitan areas. Those 20 largest Spanish metro-areas, with their 2018 population estimates, are listed at the top-centre of the map-page. …”
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W – 2024–25 La Liga
Guardian: Sid Lowe is Spanish football correspondent based in Madrid

Brenden Aaronson finishes off the ‘perfect team move’ that showed the best of Leeds

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“It had been a wasteful night for Leeds United before Brenden Aaronson scored a goal-of-the-season contender. Derby County did their best to frustrate and deny the Championship leaders. They did it well until the 79th minute. But, as they have done all season, Leeds will pass and pass and pass again until they find a minuscule opening capable of hurting their opponents, and so they did with Aaronson’s winner 11 minutes from time. Leeds had other chances and it threatened to become a costly game in the title race, but the beauty of Aaronson’s goal — which takes his tally to seven for the season and earned him a man-of-the-match award — was worth enduring the frustration up to that point. …”
NY Times/The Athletic (Video)