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Matchday 30

Quality recoveries & build-up play that offers guarantees

This video illustrates how recoveries can be distinguished not only in terms of their effectiveness, but also their quality. Barcelona record the fourth-most advantageous recoveries in the league, i.e. situations that involve a numerical advantage and where the side in possession has more players ahead of the ball than the opposition.

Given the importance of build-up play in the system deployed by Xavi’s troops, the team’s set-up at the start of the attacking transition is key. This video shows how the Barcelona players react in these situations. It’s worth pointing out that 15% of the Catalan giants’ recoveries put them at an advantage.

It’s your Game

Matchday 7

Sevilla FC

2 - 0

RCD Espanyol de Barcelona

SÁB 25.09.2021

16:30

Season 2021/2022

Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán

Real Betis

2 - 0

Getafe CF

DOM 26.09.2021

19:00

Season 2021/2022

Estadio Benito Villamarín

FC Barcelona

3 - 0

Levante UD

DOM 26.09.2021

14:15

Season 2021/2022

Spotify Camp Nou

Rayo Vallecano

3 - 1

Cádiz CF

DOM 26.09.2021

16:30

Season 2021/2022

Estadio de Vallecas

Rayo Vallecano

3 - 1

Cádiz CF

DOM 26.09.2021

16:30

Season 2021/2022

Matchday 7

Estadio de Vallecas

Iraola and Cervera pit their styles against each other

Andoni Iraola and his Rayo Vallecano side have positioned themselves as the most productive LaLiga Santander team in possession: they are a team who manage to capitalise on their moves. Offensively, they average the most shots per minute of possession and they are among the three teams with the greatest ratio of high-intensity sprints at over 21 km/h. However, one of their key players is their goalkeeper: Los Franjirrojos lead the standings for high-difficulty saves so far; i.e. interventions by the goalkeeper which prevent shots with a high probability of ending in a goal.

They face a Cádiz CF side who also opt to attack quickly and vertically, without taking the luxury of building up their offensive play. This is why they boast the greatest percentage of long passes. Defensively, they stick to their plan of forming a compact block, sitting deep, where they feel most comfortable defending. In fact, they are currently the team who make the most clearances in the competition.

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Cadiz progress rapidly towards their opponents' goal

Alvaro Cervera's Cadiz firmly believe in their philosophy: defensive solidity through a compact block and counterattacking into space quickly and decisively. This vertical approach means that Cadiz are the team who pass the most opposing players per possession.

Rayo, on the other hand, are performing at a very high level, thanks to their productivity in possession and their goalkeeper's success in decisive moments during matches. They are also among the top three teams who perform the most high-intensity sprints.

PLAYER FOCUS

Oscar Trejo: the complete player

Los Franjirrojos' midfielder has made a flying start to the season. He is the team’s top scorer, the best dribbler and also stands out in the assists table. Not only that, he is the player on the team who generates the most high-impact actions. However, if there is one metric which perfectly attests to his style of play, it has to be his capacity to break through the opponents’ lines in the attacking third, taking out an average 2.8 rivals per pass.

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Metric of the Week

Matchday 30

Find out the meaning of each metric

Number of players involved per possession offers clear indication of team’s style

There are a number of ways in which a team’s possession can be defined, with the number of players involved in them being one of the methods that we analyse. This criteria measures how many team members touch the ball during the course of an attacking transition. Teams whose game involves more intricate build-up play and possessions typically feature more players per possession.

As this video illustrates, Real Madrid are the LaLiga Santander champions for the number of players involved per possession, with an average of 3.67 per outing.

HOW IT'S MADE

Beyond Stats offers incredible metrics which go beyond the ordinary in the football industry: it does not limit itself to gathering the data normally used for the standard analyses that reach fans, but goes one step further, collecting a vast amount of in-match information, almost in real time, thanks to LaLiga’ s Mediacoach proprietary tool, that is capable of revealing new perspectives on the game at a deeper level, allowing patterns to be traced and future predictions to be made. 

In every LaLiga stadiums we have up to sixteen high-resolution, fixed perimeter cameras for optical tracking which follow the positions of the players, referees, and the ball on the field of play, collecting the physical and technical/tactical data at the dizzying rate of 25 times a second. These devices permit the integration, through the Mediacoach analysis tool, of two technologies: tracking and eventing. Tracking is based on the positional information collected by the stadium perimeter cameras and allows for the generation of metrics such as distance covered, top and average speeds, and number of sprints. Eventing allows more objective events to be recorded: number of passes, corners, and fouls committed and received, for example. The information captured through tracking and eventing is integrated and stored in the system forming a high-volume set of data. 

The raw data collected is processed for analysis by a multidisciplinary team composed of LaLiga experts in business intelligence & analytics and football analysis, through machine learning and artificial intelligence processes made possible thanks to the Azure technology supplied by Microsoft, which is capable of processing large volumes of data. After processing, an algorithm is generated that permits the visualisation of the metrics that reach fans through Beyond Stats. These statistics allow fans to better understand why their team has won or lost a match, or to benefit from a panoramic view of their performance and expectations, gifting football fans an unprecedented immersion in the experience.