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The Fifa Women’s World Cup is coming to a close and the race for the golden boot is tight, with the top 3 all still involved in the tournament (Table 1).

The analysis of passing in elite soccer is common place. Often media shows simple pass counts and pass completion rates but there are much better ways of viewing this type of data.

The knockout round of the Women’s World Cup has arrived. After two weeks of group phase matches, the last 16 has been decided. All of the top nations made it through which has set up a couple tough looking matches.

It’s been a few days since I last posted about the Women’s World Cup, and with the end of the second round of games I thought now would be a good time as any to put together a summary of where each group is at, looking ahead to the final round of games.

An examination of shots from different pitch locations using R and the x y coordinates provided by StatsBomb

An analysis of passing in the Fifa Women’s World Cup

A tutorial on extracting freeze frame data from free StatsBomb data in R. In this tutorial we will use the dplyr and purr packages from R

An analysis of day 3 of the womens world cup in France

An analysis of the first game of the Women’s world cup using R

An anaysis of shots using FA WSL data from StatsBomb and the ggplot package in R