Possession as a performance indicator in soccer.

Jones, Phil; James, Nic; Mellalieu, Stephen D.

doi:10.1080/24748668.2004.11868295

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“…These results generally agree with findings in studies that report a link between 'successful' performance and KPI such as the frequency of goal attempts and goal attempts on target (Castellano, Casamichana, & Lago, 2012;Lago-Peñas, Lago-Ballesteros, Dellal, & Gómez, 2010), time spent in ball possession (Jones, James, & Mellalieu, 2004;Lago-Peñas et al, 2011) and pass completion rates (Collet, 2013;Oberstone, 2009). In contrast and perhaps surprisingly however, the team's performance in virtually all of the selected attacking KPI was not highest during the Championship winning year despite a statistically significant difference across the five seasons.…”

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Squad management, injury and match performance in a professional soccer team over a championship‐winning season

Carling

Gall²,

McCall

et al. 2014

European Journal of Sport Science

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Squad management, injury and physical, tactical and technical match performance were investigated in a professional soccer team across five consecutive league seasons (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013) 190 league games) with specific focus on a Championship-winning season (2010/11). For each player, match participation and time-loss injuries were recorded, the latter prospectively diagnosed by the team's physician. Defending and attacking tactical and technical performance indicators investigated included: ball possession and possession in opponents half, passes, forward passes, completed passes and forward passes, crosses and completed crosses, goal attempts and goal attempts on target, successful final third entries, free-kicks and 50/50 duels won/lost. Physical performance measures included: total distance and distance covered at high-speeds (≥19.1km/h). Results showed that during the 2010/11 season, squad utilisation was lowest potentially owing to the observed lower match injury occurrence and working days lost to injury thereby increasing player availability. In 2010/11, the team won both its highest number of points and conceded its lowest number of goals especially over the second-half of this season. The team also won its highest number of games directly via a goal from a substitute and scored and conceded a goal first on the highest and lowest number of occasions respectively. While multivariate analysis of variance detected a significant difference in some attacking and defensive performance indicators across the five seasons, these were generally not distinguishing factors in 2010/11. Similarly, univariate analyses of variance showed a significant difference in running distances covered across seasons but the trend was for less activity in 2010/11.

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Squad management, injury and match performance in a professional soccer team over a championship‐winning season

Carling

Gall²,

McCall

et al. 2014

European Journal of Sport Science

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“…Lago and Martín 3 showed that home teams have more possession than away teams using data from 170 matches of the 2003-04 Spanish Soccer League. The same behaviour was found by a myriad of studies 5,8,10,22 . Previous researches in sport psychology have demonstrated factors that can explain this behaviour, such as crowd effects 23 , crowd density 24 , local familiarity 25 , and travel 26 .…”

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confidence: 60%

Effects of match situational variables on possession: The case of England Premier League season 2015/16

Aquino

Manechini

Bedo

et al. 2017

Motriz: rev. educ. fis.

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-Aims:To identify the effects of match location, quality of opponents and match status on possession during the 2015/16 Season of England Premier League. Methods: Three hundred and eighty matches played by 20 teams were analysed. For each match, two values were recorded, resulting in 760 observations. Results: Teams who played at home (51.77 ± 10.22%) presented higher possession values (EF=moderate) than those who played away (48.21 ± 10.30%). Quality of opponents also had a significant difference, as possession was higher (EF=large) when teams played against weak (52.30 ± 9.77%) than strong opponents (46.48 ± 10.38%). The multivariate analysis revealed no interaction between situational variables and possession (p = 0.76). Despite the teams classified as "best-ranking" (1st to 8th position: 50.60 ± 10.35%) presented greater possession (EF=moderate) than "worst-ranking" (9st to 20th position: 47.59 ± 9.74%), no significant differences were found in the comparisons of match status (

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“…Literature review also supports this explanation (Bloomfield et al, 2005, Jones et al, 2004Sasaki et al, 1999). The current study agrees with past finding regarding the wide range results in which losing teams are not able to approach ball possession of winning teams .…”

Section: Bekris Evangelos; Gioldasis Aristotelis; Gissis Ioannis; Kommentioning

confidence: 51%

“…Japheth and Hughes (2001) also added that the national team of France performed longer possession percentage than their opponents during Euro of 2000. Similarly, the most successful teams of 2001/2 English Premier League performed longer possession ratings than the less successful ones (Jones, James, & Mellalieu, 2004). They also added that both successful and unsuccessful teams had longer possession when they were losing matches compared to winning results.…”

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Evangelos¹,

Gioldasis²,

Gissis³

et al. 2014

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Abstract:The aim of the current study was to identify the differences between top-level teams after wide and short range results. The data corresponded in 64 games of 2013/14 European soccer leagues. Wide and short range results were divided in two equal categories. The researchers described the descriptive statistics for all the soccer factors. They tested normality and homogeneity by Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Levene's controls respectively. Furthermore, they examined the differences between wide and short range results by ANOVA analyses and post hoc Tukey's comparisons. The results showed that in wide range results (≥3 difference), the winners perform significant higher performance than the losers in the following factors: aerial duels (p< .10), overall duels (p< .10), ball possession (p< .05), overall passes (p< .05), opponent-half passing accuracy (p< .05), overall shots (p< .001), shot accuracy (p< .10), on-target shots (p< .001), short distance (p< .001) and long distance shots (p< .05), as well corners (p< .05). No differences between winners and losers were found regarding the above variables in short range results. Soccer coaches should focus in improvements of these factors in order to achieve wide range victories.

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Possession as a performance indicator in soccer.

Cited by 194 publications

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Squad management, injury and match performance in a professional soccer team over a championship‐winning season

Squad management, injury and match performance in a professional soccer team over a championship‐winning season

Effects of match situational variables on possession: The case of England Premier League season 2015/16

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