Measuring Collective Behaviour in Football Teams: Inspecting the impact of each half of the match on ball possession

Clemente, Filipe Manuel; Couceiro, S. Micael; Martins, Fernando Manuel Lourenço; Mendes, Rui; Figueiredo, A.

doi:10.1080/24748668.2013.11868680

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“…Some examples on the game analysis of teams that have recently highlighted by its performance can be: Barcelona team’s performance and his opponents in the final games of the Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup 2010 (Cambre-Añon et al 2014), analysis of the offending patterns of Spain national soccer team in FIFA World Cup 2010 in relation to the status of the match (Moraes et al 2014), measuring collective behaviour in Football teams: inspecting the impact of each half of the match on ball possession (Clemente et al 2013), or analyzed the network characteristics of successful and unsuccessful national teams that participated in FIFA World Cup 2014 (Clemente et al 2015). …”

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Review of the tactical evaluation tools for youth players, assessing the tactics in team sports: football

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For sports assessment to be comprehensive, it must address all variables of sports development, such as psychological, social-emotional, physical and physiological, technical and tactical. Tactical assessment has been a neglected variable until the 1980s or 1990s. In the last two decades (1995–2015), the evolution of tactical assessment has grown considerably, given its importance in game performance. The aim of this paper is to compile and analyze different tactical measuring tools in team sports, particularly in soccer, through a bibliographical review. Six tools have been selected on five different criteria: (1) Instruments which assess tactics, (2) The studies have an evolution approach related to the tactical principles, (3) With a valid and reliable method, (4) The existence of publications mentioning the tool in the method, v. Applicable in different sports contexts. All six tools are structured around seven headings: introduction, objective(s), tactical principles, materials, procedures, instructions/rules of the game and published studies. In conclusion, the teaching–learning processes more tactical oriented have useful tactical assessment instrument in the literature. The selection of one or another depends some context information, like age and level of expertise of the players.

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“…In fact, the traditional notational analysis, based on individual indicators, have now been complemented by a more complex analysis that aims at identifying and characterizing the specificities of team-members' interactions during a match (Bartlett, Button, Robins, Dutt-Mazumder, & Kennedy, 2012). There are some new alternatives such as temporal-patterns (Jonsson, et al, 2006), network analysis (Bourbousson, Poizat, Saury, & Seve, 2010) and spatio-temporal metrics (Clemente, Couceiro, Martins, Mendes, & Figueiredo, 2013). Each type of analysis provides specific information for analysts and depends on different requirements.…”

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Analysis of scored and conceded goals by a football team throughout a season

Clemente

Martins

Mendes

2016

Kinesiology (Zagreb, Online)

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Network analysis can provide a new set of important information about players and teams’ behaviour throughout a match. Despite their pertinence, football analysis using network metrics is limited. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyse the goals scored and goals conceded by a single team during a full season using network methods. Thirty-six games were analysed and from these the data about players’ connectivity in actions preceding 46 goals scored and 15 goals conceded were collected. The results showed that the most used players during the plays that resulted in the goals scored were forward players in the forward regions, mainly in the penalty area. The lateral defenders and midfield players were the players that mostly initiated the attacking plays that resulted in the goals scored. In sum, it was possible to conclude that network metrics can provide a new visualization and understanding of team-members’ behaviour, as well as characterize some patterns of play giving sport’s analysts information complementary to the traditional notational analysis.

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“…Some approaches use the Cartesian information of players' locations in the field to compute the spatio-temporal relationships. Such tactical metrics provides very interesting collective information in a online or offline fashion (Filipe M Clemente, Couceiro, Martins, Mendes, & Figueiredo, 2013). Nevertheless, those metrics depend from the information about players' position in the field, thus depending of multi-camera tracking systems or GPS (Global Positioning System) to FILIPE MANUEL CLEMENTE, FERNANDO MANUEL LOURENÇO MARTINS, DIMITRIS KALAMARAS, JOANA OLIVEIRA, PATRÍCIA OLIVEIRA, RUI SOUSA MENDES Clemente, Couceiro, Martins, Mendes, & Figueiredo, 2014).…”

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JPES

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Abstract:The aim of this study was to apply the social network analysis approach to the football match analysis case. For such, it was analyzed the Switzerland national football team during the FIFA World Cup 2014 tournament. Two general network metrics (total links and network density) and two centrality metrics (degree centrality and degree prestige) were computed. Four matches from Switzerland in FIFA World Cup 2014 were analysed in this study. A total of 334 adjacency matrices corresponding to 334 units of attack were generated based on the teammates' interactions and then converted in 4 network graphs. A total of 1129 passes were analysed. The greatest value of total links and network density was achieved in the first match (88 total links and 0.80 of density value). Degree centrality revealed that the defenders and midfielders were the players with greatest prominent values in the attacking building. Degree prestige showed that midfielders were the main targets of the team to pass the ball in the attacking process. In summary, this study showed that centrality metrics can be an important tool in match analysis to identify the style of play of football teams, revealing the most prominent tactical roles in the attacking process.

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Measuring Collective Behaviour in Football Teams: Inspecting the impact of each half of the match on ball possession

Cited by 59 publications

References 13 publications

Review of the tactical evaluation tools for youth players, assessing the tactics in team sports: football

Review of the tactical evaluation tools for youth players, assessing the tactics in team sports: football

Analysis of scored and conceded goals by a football team throughout a season

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