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Football IS rocket science! How Premier League clubs including Arsenal and Liverpool are using MISSILE-TRACKING technology to plot the move of every player in a 'mind-boggling', high-tech data war

It's official. Football is rocket science, at least at the top level.

Premier League clubs are using missile-tracking technology to map and predict the movement of players to gain an advantage in a data war that is fought on analysts' laptops.

Football analysis is now operating at level beyond what most of us thought possible.

It is this super-sophisticated examination of the game that led Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta to declare his side had a only a 3% chance of losing to Burnley, after the Clarets mugged them 1-0 at the Emirates in December.