Navigate to your country/region

United States

  • Afghanistan
  • Aland Islands
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • American Samoa.
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Anguilla
  • Antarctica
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Aruba
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bermuda
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Botswana
  • Bouvet Island
  • Brazil
  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Cape Verde
  • Cayman Islands
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • Mainland China
  • Christmas Island.
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Congo, Democratic Republic
  • Cook Islands
  • Costa Rica
  • Ivory Coast
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
  • Faroe Islands
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • French Guiana
  • French Polynesia
  • French Southern Territories
  • Gabon
  • Scotland
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Greece
  • Greenland
  • Grenada
  • Guadeloupe
  • Guam
  • Guatemala
  • Guernsey
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Heard Island & McDonald Islands.
  • Holy See (Vatican City)
  • Honduras
  • Hong Kong, SAR
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Isle of Man
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jersey
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Korea
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Macao, SAR
  • Macedonia
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islands
  • Martinique
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mayotte
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Montserrat
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • Netherlands Antilles
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Niue
  • Norfolk Island
  • Northern Mariana Islands.
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Pitcairn
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico.
  • Qatar
  • Reunion
  • Romania
  • Russian Federation
  • Rwanda
  • Saint Barthelemy
  • Saint Helena
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • San Martín
  • St. Pierre and Miquelon.
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Samoa
  • San Marino
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Georgia and Sandwich Islands.
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sudan
  • South Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Svalbard and Jan Mayen
  • Swaziland
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Taiwan, China
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Tokelau
  • Tonga.
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Tuvalu
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • United States Outlying Islands.
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Venezuela
  • Viet Nam
  • British Virgin Islands.
  • Virgin Islands, USA.
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Web Clubs

Where to watch LALIGA

LALIGA
INSTITUTIONAL

LALIGA WITH
SPORT

LALIGA
GROUP

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 15

ACCELERATE

Athletic Club

2 - 2

Granada CF

FRI 26.11.2021

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Estadio San Mamés

ACCELERATE

RCD Espanyol de Barcelona

1 - 0

Real Sociedad

SUN 28.11.2021

15:15

Season 2021/2022

RCDE Stadium

ACCELERATE

Cádiz CF

1 - 4

Atlético de Madrid

SUN 28.11.2021

17:30

Season 2021/2022

Estadio Nuevo Mirandilla

ACCELERATE

Real Madrid

2 - 1

Sevilla FC

SUN 28.11.2021

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Estadio Santiago Bernabéu

Beyond Stats
ACCELERATE

RCD Espanyol de Barcelona

1 - 0

Real Sociedad

SUN 28.11.2021

15:15

Season 2021/2022

Matchday 15

RCDE Stadium

Formidable shotstopper comes up against adaptable unit

One of Real Sociedad’s biggest strengths is their ability to adapt to the different phases of the game. When in possession, the San Sebastian outfit lie in the top half of the LaLiga standings in terms of positional width, whilst when out of possession they’re the second-narrowest team in the league. The Basques have bagged a top-two spot in terms of defensive efficiency, both in terms of containing the opposition and denying them chances in their own box. La Real’s statistics in these metrics place the team in fourth spot in the LaLiga standings for the number of shots it takes for them to be breached.

Meanwhile, RCD Espanyol are the team to have blocked the most shots and lie in second place in the league for the number of shots it takes the opposition to score. These statistics gain even greater significance when we consider that the Catalans receive the second-most shots in the league.

In this sense, Diego Lopez plays a pivotal role between the sticks. The Pericos custodian posts the best save percentage in the Spanish top tier and lies fourth in terms of the number of big saves. We mustn’t forget that the boys from Barcelona are one of the sides to receive the most shots in the whole division.

Cara a cara bajo palos
Share
Construcción del juego
Share
Share
Share

Imanol’s troops form compact block out of possession

Real Sociedad sit in third place in the charts for the distance covered after relinquishing possession. This ranking should come as little surprise when we consider the Basques’ compact block in the defensive phase.

A side’s possession can be analysed from a whole range of perspectives. If we look at the length of possession, it emerges that Real Sociedad lie in fifth spot for the seconds per possession, as they retain the ball for over 18 seconds each time they get it. In contrast, their opponents this matchday, Espanyol, languish down in mid-table with possessions lasting around 15 seconds.

Despite, the duration of their possessions, the Catalan outfit sit in second position in the league standings for the distance gained in possession as Vicente Moreno’s charges adopt a pragmatic and direct approach when on the ball.

PLAYER FOCUS

Speedster Embarba proving to be Espanyol’s game-changer

Adrian Embarba features amongst the top 15 players in the competition in terms of high-impact actions, whilst he also excels in the number of high-intensity actions completed per game.

The Madrid-born trickster is heavily involved in his team’s attacking play. His experience and attacking threat see him dovetail effectively with one of the players to have recorded the most shots in the league, the on-song Raul de Tomas.

Embarba lies second in the Espanyol charts for the number of shots taken following his carries. Given that the Barcelona-based side don’t retain possession for long periods, such actions and progressive carries are vital to Espanyol’s chances of success. The flying winger has also established himself as one of the league’s leading lights in the assist stakes, where he features amongst the division’s top 15 performers.

Share

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.