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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 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

Real Madrid

2 - 1

Sevilla FC

SUN 28.11.2021

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Matchday 15

Estadio Santiago Bernabéu

Clash of sides with similar build-up strategies but distinctive features

There are many parallels between the two sides’ build-up play. Both record some of the highest possession percentages in the division and feature amongst the top five in this department, whilst they both takes their places on the LaLiga Santander podium in terms of the number of passes played forwards and are amongst the division’s top three sides in terms of efficiency in the build-up phase and ball circulation speed.

At first sight, it would appear as if there are many similarities between the teams’ play in the attacking phase, however, some differences begin to emerge when we look at the final third. Real Madrid require the fewest shots of all of the LaLiga teams to score, whilst they record the highest number of shots and shots on target and are the most effective team in the shooting stakes.

Cara a cara bajo palos
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Construcción del juego
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Jugadores más peligrosos
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Jugadores más físicos
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Build-up play that promotes efficiency

The Blancos’ efficiency is also reflected by the fact that they currently occupy top spot for the number of dangerous possessions.

In terms of their on-field positioning, Sevilla boast one of the league’s highest convex hull scores when in possession. This means that the Andalusians are one of the top-performing sides in the league when it comes to opening the pitch up when they have the ball. This ability to use the full width of the pitch helps Sevilla to create spaces.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid lie second in the LaLiga Santander charts for the number of players involved in the counter-press, a statistic that speaks volumes of the team’s willingness to defend.

PLAYER FOCUS

Tireless Casemiro is Madrid’s talisman

Casemiro’s on-pitch performances represent everything that Real Madrid stand for. His passes beat more opposition players than any of those played by his teammates, whilst he also tops the LaLiga Santander ranking for the number of recoveries and also features amongst the top five players in the league for forward passes after winning the ball back and recoveries in the opposition’s half.

He acts as the conduit between defence and attack for a Real Madrid side that lead the way in the metrics relating to build-up play.

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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.