Why is football so hard to analyse?

Name: Why is football so hard to analyse?
Uploaded: 2025-04-07T06:00:21.000Z
Duration: 6 min 43 s

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Some sports like baseball or cricket are easy to analyse. They have well-defined actions that have a clear beginning and end. But football doesn’t.

It’s a continuous sport. One pattern of play leads straight into another, and this is what makes the collection of data much trickier.

Kaya Kaynak explains why this is, Marco Bevilacqua illustrates.

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