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After analysing the attacking play, we look at the defence in this article, so you can read about the teams’ play without the ball.

Or how Manchester City and Liverpool’s battle went down to the wire.

In the final part of our series, we’ll show how data analytics has become an essential part of the operation of modern football clubs.

We show how the state of too much information revolutionizes the Premier League, and who were the most decisive users of the data, who got a real advantage on the football pitch.

The British Charles Reep is considered to be the first data analyst in football, with his dubious statistics for decades encouraging managers to consider long balls as the basis of the game.