Opta have named their World Cup Team of the Tournament. A host of familiar names feature, including Manchester United's Lisandro Martinez. Key names to depart both Arsenal and Chelsea this summer also ...

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Below are a selection of Opta stats and tips for World Cup matchday 3. All kick-offs are UK times. On matchday two, Canada's Jonathan David netted the second hat-trick of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, ...

Opta have conjured up their Premier League team of the season based on data collected throughout the 2025-26 campaign. Four Arsenal players have been selected in the XI following their title-winning ...

Statisticians Opta have come up with a Premier League team of the season based on data collected during the course of the campaign. Check out their XI below - and you can see Troy Deeney's team of the ...

ARSENAL have a whopping 72 per cent chance of winning the Premier League, according to the supercomputer’s latest shock update. The Opta Analyst predictor made its latest calculations following ...

Premier League matchday 34 is spread across six days, due to FA Cup semi-finals taking place this weekend, so we've got the Opta stats and tips for the three midweek matches. We'll be back with the ...

A tense Ruben Amorim as his Manchester United close in on an historic victory over Sunderland Carl Recine/Getty Images Back in October, after a 2-0 home win for Manchester United over Sunderland ...

Design: Eamonn Dalton/The Athletic; Photos: Carlos Rodrigues/Getty Images Anyone not plugged into football’s online discourse may have missed it, but the analytics community was rocked by a seismic ...

Surely Sunderland fans will not like the most recent Premier League prediction from the supercomputer Opta. The Black Cats are surprising friends and strangers this 2025-26 season, with a record of ...

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