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How to Analyze Football (Soccer): Basics Basics of Football Analysis
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Before talking about what is beyond numbers, let's talk first about numbers. Numbers in football are so much important and helpful in understanding the game and how to manage it. Position person teach distance covered number of passes, passes accuracy, number of tackles chances created or create accessor. For arbitrary and value analysis, we do need numbers. This is a picture showing some statistics from the game between Celtic and Barcelona in the Champions League group stage of 2012. I want you to pause the video here and to guess what is the result based on the statistics.

If you try analyzing the game by only reading the statistics, dude, absolutely say that Barcelona smashed and dominated Celtic and it's wrong. If you didn't watch the game, this statistics will get you wrong. Your only way to deliver a valid analyzes is by watching the game. Running only numbers will lead you to a partial answer. This was wrong one. As you can see here scitech won the game two to one.

First, you have to get more data, more numbers. Let's say that a midfielder was the player with the most passes deliver during the game. You could say, Oh, he was really clinical link in between the defense and data clients. This could be wrong if you don't take into consideration the accuracy percentage of this passes. And even though let's say that the percentage was about 90%, which is a great thing by the way, this midfielder could pass almost all his passes back to the defensive line, which doesn't cost us any danger or challenge to the open and team. Now, was he really clinical linking between the defensive and attack lines influenceable there are so many variables that we cannot measure, for example, the personality, the mindset, the attitude, and the art.

This is in your analysis. Don't forget to look beyond the numbers.

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