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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 13

Real Betis

0 - 2

Sevilla FC

SUN 07.11.2021

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Estadio Benito Villamarín

Villarreal CF

1 - 0

Getafe CF

SUN 07.11.2021

13:00

Season 2021/2022

Estadio de la Cerámica

Deportivo Alavés

2 - 1

Levante UD

SAT 06.11.2021

17:30

Season 2021/2022

Mendizorroza

RCD Mallorca

2 - 2

Elche CF

SUN 07.11.2021

17:30

Season 2021/2022

Estadi Mallorca Son Moix

Real Betis

0 - 2

Sevilla FC

SUN 07.11.2021

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Matchday 13

Estadio Benito Villamarín

Dangerous possessions sit front and centre in Gran Derbi

As the lyrics of the popular song go, the city of Seville has that something special which, this season, rings particularly true. The Andalusian capital’s two LaLiga Santander representatives are enjoying excellent campaigns and both head into this battle for the local bragging rights amongst the division’s top five and with three points between them. It’s very much nip and tuck in this latest instalment of The Gran Derbi.

Manuel Pellegrini’s Betis side have proved themselves as a force to be reckoned with in attack. The Verdiblancos are amongst the league’s top three performing sides in attacking build-up play, whilst they also feature amongst the division’s leading five teams for initiative in the build-up and attacking build-up play and top the standings for dangerous possessions. As for their finishing, Betis have taken the second most shots, and are the league leaders for the percentage of shots on target.

Sevilla’s playing style is similar to that of their city foes as they also tend to favour intricate build-up play. Julen Lopetegui’s troops have bagged spots in the top three for initiative in the build-up, possession width and build-up play. The boys from the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan are also amongst the top three teams for finishing efficiency and preventing the opposition from scoring as they showcase an impressive ability to rule the roost in both boxes. Indeed, the Sevillistas also take their place on the podium in the shots taken stakes.

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Sevilla go all out in transition from attack to defence

Despite being bitter rivals, if there’s one thing that Real Betis and Sevilla FC have in common it is their ability to spray the ball confidently around the pitch and disrupt the opposition’s set-up. The two Seville sides feature amongst the top five in the dangerous possession stakes, with the Verdiblancos lying top of the pile in that particular department. The old enemies also both involve many players in each possession, with the Benito Villamarin outfit landing a spot amongst the division’s top five, whilst their cross-city rivals feature amongst the top three.

Betis are the best team in the league when it comes to the number of carries that result in shots, a statistic they achieve thanks to their status as one of the top three teams in the division with the widest convex hull when in possession, which offers them greater space in which to operate. Meanwhile, Sevilla’s ability to switch from attack to defence is also worthy of note. Indeed, Lopetegui’s charges are one of the division’s top three sides when it comes to distance covered after losing possession.

PLAYER FOCUS

Classy Canales brings style to Betis engine room

There can be little doubt that Sergio Canales is one of the Spanish top tier’s most talented performers. The Betis man features amongst the top 10 players for passes played in the final third and passes leading to shots across the whole league, whilst his name crops up amongst the 15 players to have chalked up the most high-intensity actions. Amongst his teammates, Canales is the standout player for players passed per pass and is the team’s top dog when it comes to breaking lines. He also lies second in the Verdiblancos’ charts for the number of dribbles that result in a shot (behind Nabil Fekir) and currently stands second in the rankings that measure the number of times a player’s dribbles break the opposition’s midfield line.

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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.