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Podcast: Managing Madrid Podcast
Episode: Mailbag with Ryan O'Hanlan, on football analytics, measuring process over results, Raul as Castilla manager, and more
Description: This mailbag edition of the Managing Madrid Podcast comes in two parts.
Part 1 (Kiyan Sobhani, Ryan O'Hanlan)
- Fernando Torres's retirement
- Metrics to measure positional performance, and what space a player should in on the pitch when his team has the ball
- How xP is calculated
- How Real Madrid underperformed their xP last season
- How much does Zinedine Zidane's three-peat give him a pass?
- Is Paul Pogba's attitude really a significant distraction?
- What does he bring to the table on the pitch?
- Jan Oblak freak stats that make him undeniably the best goalkeeper...