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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 8

ACCELERATE

Elche CF

1 - 0

RC Celta

SUN 03.10.2021

12:00

Season 2021/2022

Estadio Martínez Valero

ACCELERATE

Atlético de Madrid

2 - 0

FC Barcelona

SAT 02.10.2021

19:00

Season 2021/2022

Riyadh Air Metropolitano

ACCELERATE

RCD Mallorca

1 - 0

Levante UD

SAT 02.10.2021

14:15

Season 2021/2022

Estadi Mallorca Son Moix

ACCELERATE

Villarreal CF

2 - 0

Real Betis

SUN 03.10.2021

16:30

Season 2021/2022

Estadio de la Cerámica

Beyond Stats
ACCELERATE

Elche CF

1 - 0

RC Celta

SUN 03.10.2021

12:00

Season 2021/2022

Matchday 8

Estadio Martínez Valero

Los Ilicitanos: possession and a high return on goals scored

Elche CF host an RC Celta side at the Martinez Valero Stadium who come into the clash boasting back-to-back wins. The home team have racked up the greatest percentage of possession in their own half, showing that they try to play out from the back in possession of the ball. They do so by relying on their wide players, making them one of five LaLiga Santander teams with the largest convex hull surface area in attack. This makes it easier for them to move the ball around, given that there is a greater distance between their players, which can mean that defenders have to spread themselves thinner. They are also among the top five teams in terms of their return on goals scored; i.e., who earn the most points with the goals that they score.

Eduardo Coudet's side, meanwhile, are among the top four teams on total distance covered and boast the greatest high-intensity distance covered at over 21 km/h. The stats not only reflect this facet of their game in attack, but also in the pressure they apply after losing the ball. In fact, they are the team with the greatest ball recoveries on average per match.

Cara a cara bajo palos
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Winning the ball back, the key for Eduardo Coudet's charges

RC Celta have earned six points out of six in their last two matches. In addition to having the goalkeeper who makes the most high-difficulty saves in their ranks, they are one of the three teams who cover the greatest distance in the first five seconds after losing the ball. This means that they are a side who press their opponents, seeking to win the ball back quickly, and the team includes players who are physically and mentally quick to act in the attack-defence transition. Those first few seconds are key to regaining possession and the Galician outfit is well aware of that, which is why they work hard to do so as quickly as possible.

In contrast, Elche CF are one of the five teams with the largest convex hull when attacking, attempting to generate interior spaces by stretching the play with their wide men. They are also among the top five teams who have the fewest players ahead of the ball when they lose possession, giving them solidity in the attack-defence transition, allowing them to quickly assemble their defensive block.

PLAYER FOCUS

Matias Dituro is Celta's a master shot-stopper

The arrival of the Argentinian has breathed new life into the team. Not only has he staked his claim to the number one spot in Coudet's starting XI in the opening stint of the season, he is also the keeper who has made the greatest number of saves so far in the competition. He has kept out three penalties, the most denied in LaLiga Santander, and he is also the keeper who has made the most high-difficulty saves; i.e., goalkeeping interventions which prevent a clear goalscoring opportunity. He is quite the master shot-stopper!

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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.