cwick (Chadwick Matlin, deputy editor): Readers! It’s been ages since we last came to you with our half-baked ideas about who the greatest soccer player in the world is, well-meaning jokes about Tony’s outrageous collection of soccer kits, and deeply-researched analysis about what is happening in the English Premier League and Champions Leagues. It’s such […]
After the U.S. women’s national team defeated the Netherlands 2-0 on Nov. 27, midfielder Kristie Mewis had one important thing to do before she talked to the media. “I just had to rewatch it, actually, because I think I blacked out on what actually happened,” she admitted. “It” was Mewis’s goal in the 70th minute, […]
Before the 2020-21 Premier League season began, we wrote that the title was Liverpool’s and Manchester City’s to lose. The new-ish rivals from the northwest dominated the league during the previous three seasons like no other teams in the history of the English top flight, and they each returned large chunks of their rosters, which […]
No one has ever dominated the Premier League like Liverpool and Manchester City have in the past three years. Each team finished with at least 97 points on two occasions — City with 100 in 2017-18 and 98 in 2018-19, Liverpool with 97 in 2018-19 and 99 in 2019-20, the four best seasons in league […]
FiveThirtyEight’s club soccer prediction model favored Manchester City to win the Champions League for most of the 2019-20 season. The Cityzens were so good, in fact, that they spent 62 percent of the season at the top of the model’s probability table. Only Liverpool (the current holders of both the Champions League and Premier League […]