![]() The situation will dictate the answers and various movements described here can help the attack progress for any question where the answer is “yes”. A common set of questions should be addressable by the movements we’ll describe here:Ĭan I create gaps to play through? (spread the opposition horizontally?)Ĭan I create gaps in behind? (spread the opposition vertically?)Ĭan I force the opposition to be narrow or spread in areas where they don’t want to be? There are mechanisms required of both players in possession of the ball and those who are the receivers of passes. ![]() Given this, how does a team create these forward passing routes (i.e. In the image above, the highlighted players from the attacking team are well positioned in between the opposition’s lines (lines are basically the units/groups teams use - defenders (aka a back four or three), midfield, etc.) Despite this, the horizontal spacing of the defensive blocks (another term for how team’s defend within their lines), as well as the staggering of these lines, makes it unlikely to consistently find attackers. ![]() How can these individual and collective actions occur on the pitch? passing, running into space, dribbling, shooting).” To steal words more words from smart people in the game, this time from Pablo Peña, my coworker and friend at Statsbomb, “Creating an advantage implies a manipulation of the opponent defensive system through individual or group actions (in this case understood as disorganising or unbalancing), to then exploit the provoked conditions in order to progress and create chances through another actions (i.e. Generating Forward Passing Lanes - The “Routes” of Progressive Passes Looking at the data we have put together for this project is one thing, but without seeing it all visually, it’s impossible for coaches and players to make these recommendations actionable. While Jamon’s framework describing goals will explain the processes which led us to adapt a model to support our hypotheses in this area with evidence, my goal is to explain from a tactical and technical perspective how these passes look in a match and then describe how clubs can implement a practice and game model improve in these areas - in effect, literally putting the theory into practice. This project seeks to coalesce the objective-based evidence in data about how goals are scored and a framework for describing them with recommendations on how a team can exploit these findings on the pitch. How this fits into the “Where Goals Come From” project ![]() “The mark of a good team is the ability to create repeatable, high-level chances based upon well-drilled and purposeful movement of the ball, and of the players off the ball.” Through “bucketing” pass types, and more specifically key pass types, we have found that progressive passes are the most important set of passes in the modern game in order to be a consistent and dangerous threat - it doesn’t matter your playing style, the perceived strength of your team/league, or age bracket of player.Īs MLS writer and analyst Matt Doyle recently put it: Working on this project we have found some incredibly important evidence. The type of pass made in these is purely a consequence of the action - the variability/type of passing to create opportunities is very rarely the driving force. This scarcity in goal scoring is the reason why metrics such as Expected Goals (xG) have gained such a foothold amongst the analytics (and increasingly the general) community: anything to gauge the value of a team’s chance creation is gold dust.įrom a tactical point of view, most objective based studies regarding chance creation focus on which areas of the pitch are the most important in this sense (such as the great amount of work done on Zone 14, and which areas surrounding the penalty area are ideal). Broadly speaking, in the elite European leagues, most matches have no more than three goals per game. This is the second article in a series of articles and videos in the Where Goals Come From project from Jamon Moore and Carl Carpenter. ![]()
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