We're down to four teams and the network graph looks like this.
The teams are close together, but one sticks out.
The thing I find intriguing is that each national team has one club team close to it, because that club team provides a lot of national team representatives. For Argentina, it is Atlético Madrid (my heart belongs to Diego Simeone), England have Manchester City, France have Paris Saint Germain and Spain have Barcelona.
It shows the financial strength of European football that the club team with the most players playing for Argentina is Atlético Madrid, not a team closer to home.
The club teams with the most representatives left are Barcelona with 10, Atlético Madrid with 9 and Arsenal with 8.
England are just about the team closest to the centre, with Chelsea the club team closest.
There's something interesting going on in the community view. Although there are only 4 teams left, there are 8 communities.
Labelled, it's clear that four of the communities are the nations, and the others are those teams that link more than one country (with some exceptions).
The thing that intrigues me is that some teams aren't separate communities even though they link multiple teams.
I think that happens when most of the players play for one national team, for instance of the five Aston Villa players left, three play for England.
Chelsea will have a player in the final no matter what combination of teams wins the semifinal matches.
Making predictions at this point is almost impossible, but the diagram says England and unclear because of how equidistant Spain and France are from the centre.
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