Category: Sports

• November 25, 2017

  Pressing Matters – Closing Down Metrics

  So Mike Goodman’s piece about Arsenal for NordicBet and Will Gurpinar-Morgan’s Statsbomb piece finally jolted me into doing something about measuring ‘pressing’. Now, when I was a lad, it was called ‘closing down’, but if you’re a football hipster it’s ‘pressing’ and the higher up the pitch you do it, the better you are. Or…