jonathan khemdee
Thailand 0-0 Pakistan and a 1.90m Gap: The 'A Team's' Defensive Spine Cracks Before Facing VietnamI learned to read a defensive line by its gaps, not by its names. That was a...
Thailand U23 vs Hong Kong (China) U23: The Crack Behind the 3-2 Win and an Unsealed Quarter-final TicketThat evening, no rain fell. There were only gaps. I sat a metre and a half fr...
Allen Submits Duncan in the UFC Main Event: Nine Minutes of Control and the Gap on the ScorecardsAt 22:46 of a five-round fight, Brendan Allen stopped throwing. He threaded h...
Guerrero's Error and the Boos at El Volcán: When a Back-Pass Undid TigresThe half-time whistle at Estadio Universitario has never been a pleasant soun...
Asian Games Men's Singles Final: Loh Kean Yew, Kunlavut and the Arithmetic of First TimesIn an analysis meeting at the academy where I work, someone once asked me wha...
Inside the Void of an Analysis: When Data Does Not Exist, Every Conclusion Is FabricationThere is a moment in investigative work that I have learned to fear more than...
The Empty Data Table and the Limits of Vietnam's Injury DecoderThe Empty Data Table and the Limits of Vietnam's Injury Decoder It was Tuesda...
Steady Hands: Vietnamese Football Writing and the Choice Not to InventThong Nhat Stadium, a March evening. The match ended 1-1, and in my hands was...
EuroLeague Round 3: Barcelona Beats Besiktas 95-82 on the Road — Reading the Signals in a Box Score With No 20-Point ScorerI replayed the footage of this game three times. The first time to see the...
Ajax have the ball, Atalanta have the plan: the Marcos Leonardo question at the Johan Cruyff ArenaIn the 34th minute the ball arrived at Marcos Leonardo's feet on the left edg...
Indonesia's Naturalization of Taisei Marukawa: Five Years of Residency, Two Procedural Steps and a Bet on a Second PipelineOn October 20, Noor Korompot, an official at Indonesia's Ministry of Law,...
The Elephant Gambit and a Swapped Headline: Re-reading the US Chess Championships Through DataOne night in Bangalore, as rain drummed on the tin roof and I was still awake...
Mourinho Returns to Roma: A Broken Heart, Ancelotti's 'Crazy' Photos, and the Sediment of a Homecoming"Crazy photos" — Jose Mourinho used exactly that phrase to describe the Carlo...
Blank Cells on the Data Sheet: Reading the LCK Transfer Window When Information Has Not ArrivedGame three of the LCK Summer final on September 5, 2026 was played in an aren...
Final Matchday of Group B: Vietnam Must Beat Pakistan, and a Rule Nobody Has Spelled OutA late-afternoon training session at the national centre, the pitch still wet...
When Records Are Recycled: Football Seen Through the Hollywood Box OfficeIn July 2026, the global box office witnessed a change at the top that came n...
Where the Ball Never Bounces: A Lesson on Honesty in Sports Analytics2 a.m. in Chicago. On my screen sits a nine-layer analysis, built to the exac...
Burkina Faso's president declares intervention in the football federation after a 0-7 rout by Argentina: FIFA already has the script in its drawerThat day, national television in Burkina Faso broadcast a frame that African...
Vietnam's Attacking Deficit: A Human Problem Not Measured by NumbersThe observation begins in a quiet dressing room after a 0-2 defeat against...
LA 2028: Six Men's Volleyball Olympic Berths Are Filled and the Missing Name Matters More Than the Present OnesTunisia is ranked 30th in the world. France is the reigning Olympic champion....
