Assessing Thiago's debut season with Liverpool
There’s no guide out there on how to use stats in football. Maybe there should be. After all, a stat without context is just a number. Mainstream media has been forced into embracing this part of the sport over recent seasons. They initially resisted, but it quickly became a case of adapt or perish.
As a result, you now regularly see questionable usage of stats in articles written by old-school journalists who have very little experience with numbers.
There’s nothing …