Liam Tharme

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1,662 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5d ago

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Newcastle vs Liverpool + early season tactical trends · 21 Aug 2026 podcast

Um so it can be really, really, I think, effective. matched

Um, and that's why they're prepared to say, okay, the the worst case scenario of that ball going over the top like that, what will allow that because we think four, five, six times a game, we can actually win the ball, high up the pitch, get the ball close to goal, generate shooting opportunities, and just shut down opposition teams in their buildup. matched

Uh I think I know a bit. matched

It's one of Optus finest. matched

Um you get this kind of sporadically throughout the season always at the start and the end, and they're trying to quantify how hard a team start or run in or any kind of portion of the season might be. matched

They've got kind of a rolling rating that they give teams um throughout the season based on partly on results but also underlying numbers and kind of other metrics to um, you know, often you get a nice list that will say something like Bournemouth are better than AC Milan or something like that because obviously matched

the the Premier League kind of weighting. matched

Um but it's always useful, I think, especially at the start of the season where people are kind of debating who's got a harder start or how difficult it might be. matched

Um I don't think there's a huge amount of difference kind of within it. matched

Um I mean we're looking at kind of numbers that their rating goes up into about the nineties and there's kind of two points either way for each team. matched

So it's not kind of um drastically. matched

Um drastically. matched

I think if it's like Champions League or European football, then that kind of gives you a broader like for instance PSG have had a couple of really hard um kind of league phases um because they might get drawn against really top rated teams. matched

But kind of the argument now is that the floor has come up so much in the Premier League that even kind of uh the fourteenth or thirteenth team um might be way better than most of the other teams kind of in Europe. matched

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Even the seventeenth, well, yeah. matched

We'll but believe that as as much as you want to. matched

Um but anyway, the kind of key takeaways from the graph are that Liverpool, Man City and Man United are the three teams that are rated as having the easiest um start to the season. matched

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Which is probably good news for for Iraola, some kind of more favourable um fixtures there. matched

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