Oli Yew

Yeah, definitely.

Obviously, football's not been the most important thing through this period, but it's good to have something to look forward to and something back to, yeah.

to get our teeth in from a work perspective, but also maybe to give the country a bit of a lift through what's been a difficult time.

Yeah, just picking up from that last point, we've really seen some really big wins, which suggests the advantage is to the stronger sides, you know.

without crowds and without that 12th man as such.

This will be a huge test as well of how the clubs are prepared physically and tactically during lockdown.

For example, set-piece goals are up 8% in the Bundesliga and so we'll probably see a few new interesting routines.

The clubs have had time on the training field

Bournemouth, Newcastle, Liverpool, you know, they scored the most goals from set pieces in the Premier League this season.

Whereas Aston Villa, Arsenal and Everton have conceded the most.

So there will be a huge...

From an attacking and defensive point of view, there will be a lot of work done on set pieces and patterns of play.

And it'll be interesting to see what the teams have come up with.

Going back to the big wins, if we look at the goals in the Bundesliga, there have been 166 goals in the 55 games played since the Bundesliga got back underway.

It works out around three goals a game and that's just shy of the 3.25 goals per game pre-lockdown.

So while that stayed fairly consistent, there have been more commanding victories, which raises the question of whether the best sides are able to make their quality count without...

the fans and in this new environment we also saw that in La Liga this weekend with Barcelona and Real Madrid producing commanding victories Barcelona was at Mallorca while Real Madrid played in the stadium within their training complex so they had to get used to being away from the Bernabeu

But, you know, almost half the games since the Bundesliga restarted have been won by two or more goals.

That's 24 out of 55.

And on 14 occasions, sides have opened up at least a three-goal margin on their opposing team.