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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 28

Atlético de Madrid

2 - 1

Cádiz CF

VIE 11.03.2022

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Civitas Metropolitano

Levante UD

1 - 1

RCD Espanyol de Barcelona

SÁB 12.03.2022

13:00

Season 2021/2022

Estadio Ciutat de València

FC Barcelona

4 - 0

CA Osasuna

DOM 13.03.2022

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Spotify Camp Nou

RCD Mallorca

0 - 3

Real Madrid

LUN 14.03.2022

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Estadi Mallorca Son Moix

RCD Mallorca

0 - 3

Real Madrid

LUN 14.03.2022

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Matchday 28

Estadi Mallorca Son Moix

Mallorca continue to seek peace of mind

Mallorca have slipped to defeat in each of their last three outings and will need to be at their best to get anything from this one as they welcome the league leaders. As we can see in this video, Luis Garcia’s men gain an average of 33.52m per possession. Meanwhile, the islanders occupy a place on the LaLiga Santander podium for the least distance to the closest opponent when receiving a pass.

If we look at the Son Moix-based side’s approach after a turnover, i.e. when launching a counter-attack, we discover that 57% of their passes are played forwards during this phase.

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League leaders also top stats standings

Carlo Ancelotti’s men have improved their performance in a number of criteria over the course of the season. The boys from the Santiago Bernabeu have amassed more dangerous possessions than any other side in the league, whilst nobody involves more players in their possessions than the Merengues, who also land the final place on the league podium for distance gained per possession. Meanwhile, the Madridistas also record the most attempts and shots on target.

In terms of their intensity, the Blancos are top of the class for the distance covered at over 24km/hr. All of these elements come together to form a system that achieves the perfect balance in terms of technical and tactical discipline and intensity.

PLAYER FOCUS

Kubo is Mallorca’s leading creative force

Not only does Take Kubo lead his team’s standings in a raft of departments, but he’s also well placed in the LaLiga Santander charts. We begin our analysis with a video that shows that he posts an average of over six actions per outing at over 24km/hr. This return places him in fourth place in the islanders’ charts in this facet. If we look at his high-impact attacking actions, we can see that he’s his team’s champion, as is also the case for attempts, courtesy of his three efforts per game.

However, the one area where he really excels is in passes leading to shots, where he’s one of the division’s top 10 performing players. In short, not only does the Japanese ace rack up the most attempts amongst all of the Mallorca squad, but he also impresses in terms of his contribution to creating chances for teammates.

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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.