Liverpool Arsenal predictions and what does data do in football?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
A lookahead to Liverpool versus Arsenal and the importance of data points such as single number models, percentiles and xG were all discussed in the latest Tifo Football podcast…
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Mark Carey, Thom Harris & Conor O’Neill and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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| 0:00.0 | Disney Lullaby, a cute playlist with soothing lullaby versions of Disney songs. |
| 0:10.1 | The Disney Lullaby playlist. Listen now. |
| 0:26.5 | The Athletic FC Podcast Network Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Joe Devine and today I'm joined by the Data Boys. Get those hands up, DataBiles. |
| 0:42.0 | You don't have to do everything he says. |
| 0:46.5 | Oh, well, fine. Anyway, it's Mark Carey. Hello, Joe. It's Tom Harris. And it's Connor O'Neill. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello, Joe. All right, how's it going? Everyone happy? |
| 1:10.9 | Very happy. Delighted. Delighted. Well, here's all the things that we talked about in today's episode. We do a statistical preview of Liverpool Arsenal. We sort of do that, don't we? I mean, we actually kind of acknowledge how difficult it is, A, to decipher what's going to happen between Liverpool and Arsenal, just in a sort of ordinary human way. And also, we talk about sample sizes. We reflect on the early fixtures of the Premier League season and what we can glean from it. You've used the word glean here, Steve. I have. I like the word glean. Good, isn't that? We don't use glean enough as a society, do we? No. No. Okay. Well, let's correct that. |
| 1:11.4 | Let's try and like the word glean. Good, isn't that? We don't use glean enough as a society, do we? |
| 1:28.3 | No. |
| 1:28.7 | No. |
| 1:29.1 | Okay. |
| 1:29.7 | Well, let's correct that. |
| 1:30.7 | Let's try and use the word glean once every podcast for the rest of the season. Noted. Challenge accepted. Okay. Tom hates XG. And we find out why. Also, we find out that Tom has never been angry, despite being in a close romantic relationship. |
| 1:28.8 | I don't believe it. |
| 1:30.6 | What else? |
| 1:31.4 | Oh, the deep... Also, we find out that Tom has never been angry, despite being in a close romantic relationship. |
| 1:44.9 | I don't believe it. |
| 1:46.7 | What else? |
| 1:47.5 | Oh, the deepest dive came when we discussed owls and other birds of prey. |
| 1:52.3 | Yeah, my favorite bird. |
| 1:53.5 | Yeah, the barn owl. |
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