Podcast Episodes

Real Madrid and Florian Wirtz

We continue to monitor teams and players that are underperforming our expectations, or, perhaps, overperforming and then suddenly dramatically underperforming our expectations in the case of Real Mad…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Arsenal, Manchester City, and the Discourse

Ignore the intro, it's a lie.

We take up the big Arsenal - Man City match from Sunday and what it tells us about the two clubs and try to intervene in the high-spirited but somewhat misguided discours…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Are We Concerned? Liverpool and Aston Villa

Villa and Liverpool both have underlying numbers are running well behind expectations after four games, but also their slow starts are reflected very differently in the actual table. We get into what…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Nottingham Forest Drama, USMNT

Nuno Espirito Santo has been sacked by one of the Premier League's more chaotic owners, we talk about that drama and the added factor that Forest hired Ange Postecoglou to replace him, a manager prac…

Published on 3 months ago

Transfer Window Roundup

Most of the headline business on deadline way was as expected, but we found both some unexpected transfers lower down the table to discuss. And we consider what it means that the Premier League, and …

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Liverpool, City, and Early Thoughts on the Evolution of Premier League Tactics

Liverpool struggled badly against Newcastle while City lost to Spurs, and both matches captured the current tactical meta in different ways. We walk through the history of where the extreme control t…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

A Very Strange Arsenal Match (with James Benge)

Arsenal got the three points, but their close-fought 1-0 victory over Manchester United felt strange to watch and was a major statistical outlier in a number of ways. We are joined by CBS Sports' Jam…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

2025 Premier League Preview, Part I

It's that time again! We go through all 20 Premier League teams, draft our favorites, and talk about why we picked them. 

Part II of course available at http://patreon.com/doublepivot

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Published on 4 months ago

Is It Possible to Get Promoted to the Premier League and Stay Up?

We talk about strategies for staying in the Premier League as a promoted side, how much harder it's gotten, what approaches are being employed by Leeds, Sunderland and Burnley, and why we think this …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Luis Diaz or Rodrygo?

Who do you got?

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Published on 4 months, 1 week ago