ANALYSE THIS: Real vs Atletico – Visualising Balance of Play

FOOTBALL: At Infostrada Sports, we are always experimenting with new insights from sports data and we have therefore developed a Balance of Play visualisation which shows how the balance between two football teams ebbs and flows during a football match. Tonight’s Champions League final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid is visualised below.

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REVIEW: CL final will be ‘Tale of One City’

FOOTBALL - It has taken Atlético Madrid 40 years to return to the CC/CL final and will now join Real Madrid in the first final of a European cup competition that will feature teams from the same city. It will also be the 17th time that two teams from the same country meet in a European final. And it will be the fifth time this occurs in the CC/CL. There has been one previous all-Spanish final in the CL. Real Madrid beat Valencia CF 3-0 in 1999/00.