Stats for Lineups of Real Madrid vs. Borussia Dortmund
Expected goal difference given the line-ups 0.659Real MadridPlayerGoalimpactPeak GIAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesIker Casillas165.8165.832.8Spanien74168816Pepe141.9157.331.1Portugal32328691Sergio...
View ArticleStats for Lineups of Paris Saint-Germain vs. Chelsea FC
Paris Saint-Germain is expected to win against Chelsea FC with 0.160 goals. This is a very close tie.Paris Saint-GermainPlayerGoalimpactPeak GIAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesSalvatore...
View ArticleFC Augsburg - FC Bayern München 1:0
FC Augsburg won against Bayern Munich. Because this ends Bayern's streak of 54 games without loss, it's a little bit historic. However, Bayern let many second tier and youth players play today. So...
View ArticleWorld Cup - All Optimal National Teams
For the upcoming World Cup in Brazil, we want to publish the optimal national team according to Goalimpact for all participating nations. As just publishing them here would be boring, we would like to...
View ArticleBayern Munich vs. Manchester United: Stats for Lineups
Given the starting XIs, Bayern München is expected to win the second leg by a margin of 0.651 goals.Bayern MünchenPlayerGoalimpactPeak GIAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesManuel...
View ArticleAtlético Madrid - FC Barcelona: Stats for Lineups
Given the starting XI, FC Barcelona is expected to win at Atletico Madrid by a narrow margin of 0.12 goals. This is a tight match.Atletico MadridPlayerGoalimpactPeak GIAgeTeamNo. GamesNo....
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"Goalimpact Machine" Thomas Müller - Mover of the Month
Sometimes not playing is as important as playing to improve the Goalimpact. Take for example Thiago Alcántara. Without him Bayern had an some, partly embarrassingly, bad performances including a loss...
View ArticlePrediction by Goalimpact and other metrics
For the World Cup, we asked bloggers around the world to join a common project. Participants should write an article on their preferred national team and we support them in doing this by delivering...
View ArticleHamburger SV vs. SpVgg Greuther Fürth 0:0
Both teams have their weakness rather in the defense. Fürth with some promising talents in their rank. If we would repeat this game one year from now, Fürth may have the stronger side as they will be...
View ArticleBorussia Dortmund vs Bayern München: DFB-Pokal Final
Bayern playing with the young talent Højbjerg seems a risk, but they are favorites nevertheless. Btw. Shaqiri should be better than Ribery next season due to age effects.Borussia...
View ArticleReal Madrid vs Atletico Madrid: GIs for Lineups
Real MadridPlayerGoalimpactPeak GIAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesIker Casillas165.9165.932.9Spanien74969560Raphaël Varane115.9139.021.0Frankreich1038491Sergio Ramos171.2176.228.1Spanien49944321Fábio...
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The Croatian World Cup 2014 Squad
This article was written by Mario Maric as part of the World Cup Blogger Project.Little bit of historyCroatia is still relatively young Football Nation in terms of experience of playing at big stage....
View ArticleWhy do Football teams don't scout in Regionalliga?
Getting promoted into professional football isn't easy in Germany. Even if you ended up on the first spot of your regional fourth league ("Regionalliga"), you need to win a two-legged play-off against...
View ArticleGermany vs. Cameroon: Lineups and GIs
Just a quick list of players in today's World Cup preparation match. It's a friendly match, so any prediction of the result seems futile. Check here for an analysis of the German squad in general, and...
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Top-50 Football Players - June 2014 edition
Too much time passed since we published the top 50 list of the players world wide last time. We should publish them more regularly, but unlike media seems to suggest, the top football players actually...
View ArticleWorld Cup 2014: All Teams' Goalimpacts
Bloggers all over the world joined forces to come up with a team description for each national team participating in the World Cup 2014 in Brazil. We supported the effort by providing the authors with...
View ArticleGermany vs Armenia: Goalimpacts of Lineup
DeutschlandPlayerGoalimpactPeak GIAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesRoman Weidenfeller128.7128.733.841438278Mats Hummels154.4156.225.4Deutschland29726038Per Mertesacker156.8162.929.7Deutschland47543835Philipp...
View ArticleWorld Cup 1974: Netherland - Germany 1:2 - Goalimpact Classics
To warm up for the World Cup, we start a series of historical ratings. This is inspired by Spielverlagerung's excellent live analysis of the 1954 World Cup final between Hungary and Germany. We'd love...
View ArticleWorld Cup Prediction
We already published a list of all teams at the World Cup sorted by Goalimpact. However, this had only limited predictive power with respect to the outcome of the tournament, because some important...
View ArticleWorld Cup 1966: England - Germany 4:2 - Goalimpact Classics
To further warm up for the World Cup, here a new post in the Goalimpact Classics series. This time a vivid, but less pleasant memory for the German readers. Many English players were not covered by...
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