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The Analyst Football Predictions & Opta Stats

The Analyst, powered by Opta, is the highest quality football statistics and predictions platform for anyone who loves football, and for football bettors. The Analyst is the consumer facing product of what Stats Perform (formerly SportsInfo Solution / Opta/VisualSports/Pinnacle), the world's largest sports data company, supplies to top football teams, media outlets and broadcast partners, and now that premium content is available to everyone.

About The Analyst and Opta

Opta Sports has been providing football data for 24 years using a team of fully qualified analysts who watch and write down every significant incident as the live sport happens. The data, trusted by the world's top football clubs, leading Champions League broadcasters and biggest global sports news organisations provides the most sophisticated football analysis at the highest level of the game. For clubs, competition organisers, media companies, rights holders, and sports technology businesses around the world, Opta Sports supplies the most trusted and deepest football data set.

The Analyst turns our world class data into top class predictions, stats and match previews for the everyday football fan. Unlike much of the football media, we don't resort to opinion and use simple form guides to inform our writing.

Football Predictions Powered by Data

The Analyst uses advanced statistical models based on Opta historical data to predict match outcomes, alongside predicted scores. The models also provide data around shot quality, pressing, defensive organisation, expected goals and historical head-to-heads between teams to give the public the most accurate analyst football predictions available.

In addition to Goals For and Goals Against for each team we also provide the quality of chances created (expected goals (xG)) and other performance indicators. This gives a true measure of performance where xG may be high but the Goals Against figure low if the opposing team have been creating few chances of their own. This factor is a key component in The Analyst's match prediction model.

Key Features of The Analyst

The Analyst provides pre-match predictions for the major football fixtures of the week. Written from a statistical perspective, these pre-match pieces are backed up by football experts and provide the most in-depth match preview for upcoming fixtures. Each pre-match piece will contain the expected line-up for each team, key match-ups, potential tactics, and the probability of each team winning.

There's far more to the site than just the competition tables and fixtures for the season. We have extensive European football league coverage, breaking down the form of each club in their domestic league as well as in the Champions League and Europa League. We also keep a run of power rankings and performer ratings for each league. At the start of each new season we will also produce a full season preview, using the information that Opta Sport have collected to make the most accurate predictions possible on things such as the final league positions, top scorer and award winners.

The Analyst from Opta Sports is a new resource that provides depth profiles on every top level football player in the world. Using statistics such as progressive pass percentage, pressures won, aerial duel success rate and shot conversion rate The Analyst creates a detailed profile of each player to reveal just how good they actually are.

Football Coverage and Competitions

The Analyst covers the top European leagues including the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1, providing in-depth analysis and match predictions for every team and every aspect of every matchweek. The Analyst also covers all international football, including the World Cup and European Championship, with statistics from Opta's extensive international database.

The Analyst and SoloPredict

At SoloPredict we often reference Opta data and the wonderful statistical insights of The Analyst when writing our match previews and football predictions. The incredible depth and accuracy of Opta's data provides the ultimate statistical foundation for football predictions and The Analyst is a must read for anyone wanting to see football analysed at the highest level.