Assessing fixture difficulty and chance conversion to work out which teams have truly started the season well
“Another international break, already? Haven’t we just had one?” Fear not. While there is top-tier club action this weekend, it does give us another opportunity to check on the state of the . We are already 21 per cent of the way through the 2023-24 campaign, but there is plenty more drama, VAR controversy, and elongated stoppage time to unfold.
To do this, we can return to — a global ranking system containing more than 13,000 clubs rated between zero and 100 — to look at the strength of the opponent faced, at the time they faced them. And looking at the graphic below, we can see that there is reason to have some sympathy for Bournemouth after their tough start to the season, with no side having a worse fixture-difficulty score than Iraola’s team.
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