POCH OUT?!?!? BERHALTER IN?!?!?!? I wrote about what we can learn from the USMNT’s underwhelming start to the Mauricio Pochettino era: espn.com/soccer/insider…

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It seems like something good happens pretty much every time a midfielder makes a late run into the box. See: Jones, Curtis.

And as stated before, I'd be quite open to working within a club or consultancy when it comes to scouting for recruitment in football. I'd like to think that I'd be an asset given my portfolio of written/video work in the public sphere since the mid 2010s x.com/MoeSquare/stat…

Real Madrid signed Kylian Mbappe over the summer. Also: they don’t even have the best attack in their own country. I wrote about the Big Game: espn.com/soccer/insider…

The late run from the CM is the cheat-code to break the high line. Teams almost never adjust because you would never normally build up like that, but it was so easy for RM to get Bellingham free just now.

El Clasico is a great reminder that everything in soccer — beating a high line, playing a high line, scoring a 1v1, finishing a tap in — is harder than it looks.

Lamine Yamal scoring at the Bernabeu and then *showing off his braces* to the crowd might be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen happen on a soccer field.

Baffled by my TV's characterization of the Liverpool-Arsenal game as one-sided. Even on shots. One side has two more touches in the penalty area. The other has slightly more final-third possession.

I wrote about the end of ETH: espn.com/soccer/insider…

Probably has something to do with the guy who stole the Ballon d'Or from Vinicius Jr. and Dani Carvajal.

Really impressive five-minute stretch from NBC's broadcast team: bemoaned United letting Scott McTominay go, made fun of a model that said Chelsea's chances of finishing top four changed after the team played soccer games, and dismissed xG as more complicated than nuclear fusion?

I can't believe a predictive model is a little skeptical of a team that's won two games this season without scoring a touchdown.

Sure, why not? Ryan O'Hanlon.bsky.social

Issue #2 of my newsletter, Good Moves — a newsletter about chess and what it can teach us about performance in other things, too! — is now out. Inside: how do we decide what to do when we don't know what to do? And will I lose to another child? Find out! makegoodmoves.substack.com/p/what-do-you-…

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I'm not checking this site too much anymore, but I've started to put links to everything I write in this Google doc. If you're into that kind of thing: docs.google.com/document/d/1kF…

Asking for a friend: where in Lisbon would be a good spot to watch the Benfica and Sporting games today?

Our SUF4 condensation paper is finally out! cell.com/cell-reports/f… Thank you to everyone who has scientifically, mentally, and emotionally supported my co-authors and me over the years. Below is a summary of the work-- we hope you enjoy our findings!