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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 23

RCD Mallorca

2 - 1

Cádiz CF

SAT 05.02.2022

15:15

Season 2021/2022

Estadi Mallorca Son Moix

CA Osasuna

0 - 0

Sevilla FC

SAT 05.02.2022

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Estadio El Sadar

FC Barcelona

4 - 2

Atlético de Madrid

SUN 06.02.2022

15:15

Season 2021/2022

Spotify Camp Nou

Real Madrid

1 - 0

Granada CF

SUN 06.02.2022

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Estadio Santiago Bernabéu

CA Osasuna

0 - 0

Sevilla FC

SAT 05.02.2022

20:00

Season 2021/2022

Matchday 23

Estadio El Sadar

Arrasate takes fast route to success

As this video illustrates, each of Osasuna’s passes beat a high number of opponents (over three), a return that puts the Pamplona-based outfit in second place in the league charts in this department. Jogoba Arrasate’s charges also excel in the fitness stakes. Only two other teams cover more distance than the Navarrans, whilst they record an impressive fifth place for distances covered at over 21km/hr.

If there’s one area of the game where Sevilla are turning heads it would have to be their defensive resolve. The Nervion-based side boast the league’s meanest defence, conceding an average of 0.7 goals per game. What’s more, Julen Lopetegui’s troops lie top of the class when it comes to overall positional width and boast the third-best figures for depth in the Spanish top flight.

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Sevilla’s intricate possession play

Sevilla lie third in the league table for the number of players involved per possession (over 3.3). In addition to the positional criteria outlined above, when in possession, Lopetegui’s men occupy a larger area than any other side in the league (1,125m²).

Meanwhile, Osasuna lead the way in the LaLiga Santander standings for the number of double-pressure passes played per game (14.27). These are passes in which both the passer and receiver are under pressure.

PLAYER FOCUS

Papu Gomez’s calculated risks

Papu Gomez has registered a pass success rate of over 85%, a return that sees him feature amongst the top five in the Sevilla ranks. The Argentine also performs well at league level when it comes to his success on long balls, where his 70% return places him amongst the division’s top 15 performers. He is involved in more carries that lead to shots than any of his Sevilla teammates and features in second spot in the team charts for attacking threat, with 27.7% of his passes made in the final third.

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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.