Here is the Scottish Premiership table just before the league split in April 2024. The split, which divides the SPFL into two halves of six teams each, takes place after 33 games.
We’ve also shown the SPL log for only home games and only away games at split time. Kilmarnock (4th in the overall table), have the 3rd best home record, but are 6th in the away games table. St.Mirren are 8th in the away log, but 5th overall.
SPFL overall table just before splitting in the 2023/24 season
Here is a look at the xG (expected goals) stats from Atalanta vs Liverpool (Official crowd attendance of 14,994 at the Gewiss Stadium for this UEL QF Second Leg on 18 April, 2024). Liverpool won 1-0 in Bergamo, but last week’s 3-0 defeat in the first leg meant they lost 3-1 on aggregate.
xG Atalanta 0.48-1.22 Liverpool shots map (Actual score ATA 0-1 LIV)
0-1 Salah penalty goal vs Atalanta xG 0.80
Salah also had a decent chance before half time (39th minute- had to chip keeper from distance- xG 0.09). That went wide though, and Liverpool didn’t really create any other chance of note in the second half.
First half shots: Atalanta 1-8 Liverpool
Second half shots: Atalanta 7-2 Liverpool
Despite chasing the tie and leading 1-0 at the break, Liverpool managed only two shots in the second half (Van Dijk 58′ and Nunez 90+2′ header)
Atalanta vs Liverpool 0-1 Match Stats for comparison
(Atalanta on left; LFC on right)
71% of possession for LFC- they made nearly 2.5x as many passes as Atalanta did.
Here are the player ratings from the likes of Bild, L’Equipe, Diario AS and Marca following Bayern Munich’s 1-0 win over Arsenal that saw the Gunners being eliminated from European competition. A second successive disappointing result for Mikel Arteta’s men, who were also beaten 2-0 by Aston Villa over the weekend in their domestic league competition.
Bild newspaper player ratings FC Bayern-Arsenal 1-0
German paper Bild gave Joshua Kimmich & Raphael the best rating (1 is excellent, 6 is terrible), with the Arsenal squad being mostly given 4’s and 5’s (Odegaard the best with a 3)
L’Equipe player ratings Munich 1-0 AFC UCL 2024
French paper L’Equipe didn’t think too highly of this game- nobody got a player rating of more than 7/10 from them and Bayern got an average team rating of 5.8/10 (4.8/10 for Arsenal). Referee Makkelie also got a 5/10 rating.
AS and Marca Spanish player ratings for Bayern Munchen vs Arsenal Second Leg
Both AS and Marca gave three stars to Kimmich and two stars to Declan Rice, with the rest mostly getting a single star rating.