
This is a collection of blogs focussing on the Fifa Women’s World Cup 2019 in France. Thanks must first go to StatsBomb for providing this data within 24 hours of the games being played in France.
During the tournament I will look to provide content frequently, with the aim of progressing how I show the data and providing summaries of as many games as possible.
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Josh Trewin
Data Scientist
I’m a data scientist, learning my way through R / Python and applying to football data from StatsBomb, provided for free through GitHub. Follow my journey on here or Twitter to find out when I add new content.
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Fifa Women's World Cup - The Final
What a month of Women’s football we had, culminating in a final where the USA were made to earn their fourth World Cup title. The Netherlands however, can be proud of their achievements, making their first final in their second world cup appearance. Let’s summarise the match quickly.
Team Name Goals Shots Shots On Target xG Passes Successful Pass % Netherlands 0 6 4 0.
Fifa Women's World Cup: Race for the Golden Boot
The Fifa Women’s World Cup is coming to a close and the race for the golden boot is tight, with the top 3 all still involved in the tournament (Table 1).
Player Name Team Name Goals Shots xG Alex Morgan United States 6 20 2.19 Ellen White England 6 18 3.
Fifa Women's World Cup: On to the Knockout Rounds
The knockout round of the Women’s World Cup has arrived. After two weeks of group phase matches, the last 16 has been decided. All of the top nations made it through which has set up a couple tough looking matches. So let’s breakdown a couple of these matches and look how these teams progressed through to this stage of the tournament.
Canada
Canada made it through to the knockout phase after finishing second in Group E, after winning 2 matches and losing to the Netherlands.
Fifa Women's World Cup: Round two in review
It’s been a few days since I last posted about the Women’s World Cup, and with the end of the second round of games I thought now would be a good time as any to put together a summary of where each group is at, looking ahead to the final round of games. So let’s get right in to it.
Group A
This group has so far been all about the host nation, who with one game to go have already qualified for the knockout rounds.
Fifa Women's World Cup - Passing isn't everything
An analysis of passing in the Fifa Women’s World Cup
Fifa Women's World Cup - Game Day One
An analysis of the first game of the Women’s world cup using R