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World Cup tactical trends: Why having the ball didn't mean success at Qatar 2022
16/12/2022 08:05 AM | Click to read full article
I dove into StatsPerform's World Cup charting data archive to look at the trends that have changed and taken over the sport from 1966 to 2018. With the 2022 World Cup almost complete, we now have another data set to take in. What have we learned over the past month or so that tells us how the sport might be evolving? And were some of the results as funky as they seemed?