Scouting Report Chile vs Brazil World cup

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SANKAR RAM BALASUBRAMANIAN /Q11153253 /LEI340 SCOUTING REPORT- CHILE VS BRAZIL (ATTACKING HEADING) FOCUS TEAM - CHILE Introduction An attacking header is a downward penetrating ball released from the player’s forehead with pace and penetration towards the goal or target (Hull, 2008). One goal in every five overall is scored with a header. About 64% of goals from crosses are scored with headers and the majority of the heading chances are for balls below head height(Hughes, 1990). In 2014 World cup 18.1% of the goals were scored from headers, when compared to 17.93% in 2010 which shows a mild increase in the percentage and almost same when compared to 18.2% in 1994, but however there is a big decline when compared to 23.6% in 2002 and 24.3% 1990 World cup (Yiannis, 2014), (Njororai, 2013), (Jinshan et al., 1996). Page 1 of 2

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SCOUTING REPORT- CHILE VS BRAZIL (ATTACKING HEADING)FOCUS TEAM - CHILE

Introduction

An attacking header is a downward penetrating ball released from the player’s forehead with pace and penetration towards the goal or target (Hull, 2008). One goal in every five overall is scored with a header. About 64% of goals from crosses are scored with headers and the majority of the heading chances are for balls below head height(Hughes, 1990). In 2014 World cup 18.1% of the goals were scored from headers, when compared to 17.93% in 2010 which shows a mild increase in the percentage and almost same when compared to 18.2% in 1994, but however there is a big decline when compared to 23.6% in 2002 and 24.3% 1990 World cup (Yiannis, 2014), (Njororai, 2013), (Jinshan et al., 1996).

Fig 1. Shows that number goals and Goals from headers in respective of the tournament year.

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The average number of headed goals in the last two world cup is 18.04%, but whereas the average of 1990 and 1994 world cup is 21.5, which shows that it is imperative for the attackers to improve the key technical factors and getting into the scoring position to convert chances into headed goals. One the key attacking principle is Create, maintain and exploit the space as a team or individual, this is the initial key factor in any attack (Hughes 1994). The key technical factors for heading are Pulling away from the marker, attacking the defender without the ball, checking and changing direction, jumping to attack the ball, accurate contact, and adding power to the ball. Pulling away from the marker is a simple and effective technique of moving away from the ball, as the defenders need to keep the ball and their immediate attacker in view, when the immediate attacker move away from the defender, the defender has to adjust their position according to the attacker as well need to keep a view in ball. Attacking a defender without the ball by running towards (No physical contact) and behind the defender which can create space for the attacker and his teammate. Checking and changing the direction is an effective movement which can create space for the attacker for two - three yards, which is considered to be good enough space to score a goal inside the penalty box. This movement should be made before the ball is delivered Jumping to attack the ball involves, attacker going across or down the line of the flight of the ball and attacking the ball at the optimum height by adjusting to the flight of the ball. Accurate contact means, contact with the top half of the ball by the forehead, whilst eyes open in order to look through the ball with mouth shut to avoid biting the tongue. And finally adding power to the ball by transferring the power from body weight to legs, back and neck i.e., arching the back while jumping, then nod the head which acts as corresponding movement. As the back straightens, additional force is transferred to the ball by a firm nodding movement of the head (Thefa, 2014), (Hughes, 1990). There are different types of headers which can be used based on the position inside the box and type of delivery, they are steered or glancing deflections

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towards the far post of the goal from the near post position, if the ball is crossed from the by-line or from wider position, Placing the ball or the power header towards the corner of the goal, if the header is from middle of the goal area, Power header directing the ball downwards towards the far post from far post area, because it will be difficult to save for the goalkeeper when it is aimed towards the bottom of the far post, diving headers is another important type of goal, it can be performed when the ball is delivered towards below the head height (Hughes, 1990).

This report will focus on Chile vs Brazil match and Chile as the focus team on a specified theme i.e., attacking heading. Chile used 3-4-1-2 formation, while Brazil used 4-3-3 formation in the game.

Fig 2. Chile Formation 3-4-1-2

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STARTING LINE-UP

1 Bravo2 Mena4 Isla5 Silva7 Sanchez8 Vidal 87' Out

11Vargas 57' Out

17 Medel 18 Jara20 Aranguiz21 Diaz

Subs9 Pinilla 87' IN

16Gutierrez 57' IN

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Fig 3. Brazil Formation 4-3-3

Methodology

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Starting Line-Up

12 Julio Cesar2 Alves3 Silva4 David Luiz

5Fernandinho 72' OUT

6 Marcelo7 Hulk9 Fred 64' OUT

10 Neymar11 Oscar 17 Luiz Gustavo

SUBS16 Ramires 72' IN21 JO 64' IN

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Chile used 3-4-1-2 system of play, where two side mid-fielders have important role to play both in defensive and attacking transition, as they need give good penetrating forward runs and stay wide to create goal scoring opportunities. However defensive duty is based on the manager preference, Manager might opt both side mid-fielders to the defensive duty or either one of the mid-fielder. The goal scoring opportunity can be created by either quick long pass, or with a diagonal pass or even by deep passes and subsequent passes. But however all these type of build-up play has advantage and disadvantages as well. i.e., Risk of losing possession, takes long time to go close to opposing goal with diagonal passes, by playing back passes the attack is not developed from the wing. Other problems such as defensive problem, when the team plays against 4-3-3, although Chile have numerical advantage in the mid-field, it's 3 vs 3 in upfront, so they need to change their formation little bit during defensive transition to 4-3-3, which balance the defensive area (Lucchesi, 2001).

All successful teams have aerial power and it is an essential quality in direct play and essential element to win the game (Hughes, 1990). And as the statistics shows that one in five goals are scored from header, hence the rational of this report is to find the aerial attacking ability i.e., attacking heading made by Chile team from open play situation against Brazil.

Method -

Data will be collected through Sequential data system, as this system enables the analyst to interpret the performance in greater depth. This system can be very informative for the coach, for the players as well as on the opposition and moreover the process of this system is simple and straight forward, but however the main disadvantage is that making sense of mass data (Franks and Hughes, 2004).

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The criteria's are dead ball situation are not taken into consideration in this report. Dead ball situation means when the ball put into play after a stop in the action i.e., kickoffs, goal kicks, throw-ins, free kicks, corner kicks, penalty kicks are considered to be as dead ball situation (Bangsbo and Peitersen, 2000). This report will collect data on attacking heading and position of heading. The outcome of attacking heading will be (Goal, Assist, Attempt on goal, Attempt off goal, Pass, Misplaced headers). Types of Attacking header will be (Power header, Glancing header, Placing header, Diving header, Flick on header).

Delivery of crosses or pass and the position will be analysed, (i) Lofted cross (any cross which is attempted aerial) (ii) Ground ball cross ( Cross pass, cut back, driven cross) (iii) Long Lofted pass and whether it was a successful or unsuccessful. Successful cross is when the header win by the teammate or the penetrating cross which can impact in the zone 17 and unsuccessful is when the ball is met by opponent.

Crossing qualities will be determined by comparing with number of crosses attempted and successful cross completed i.e., cross met the player teammate. If the quality is poor, then opponent defending position will be analysed when ball is played is from wide areas i.e., Zone 13,16,15 and 18.

The pitch areas will be considered in this report will be final third of the pitch i.e., Zone 13,14,15,16,17,18 as this is report is about attacking heading, these six zones are the key areas where the attacking heading will be having the impact on at least one of the five outcomes.

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Fig 4. Pitch in Zones

Notational analysis helps to record the parameters such as position, player, action and the subsequent outcome or outcomes of the action. The outcome of the actions are coded by symbols as follows.

Attacking Heading Goal AHGAssist AHAAttacking Heading on Goal AHOGAttacking Heading off Goal AHOFGAttacking Heading Pass AHPMisplaced Headers MPHTypes of Attacking headingPower Header PHGlancing Header GHPlacing Header PLHDiving Header DHFlick on Header FOHTypes of CrossLofted Cross LCGround Cross GCType of PassLong Lofted Pass LLP

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Position of heading and positioning of cross and pass will be notated into zone numbers as per shown in Fig 4 (above). Players will notated by their numbers on the shirt.

Results

Position of the player who passed the ball Player

Cross /Long Lofted pass

Position Received Player

Type of Shot Outcome

Zone 5 1 LLP Zone 15 8 FOH MPHZone 8 17 LLP Zone 14 8 FOH AHPZone 5 17 LLP Zone 15 8 FOH MPHZone 7 18 LLP Zone 16 7 PLH AHP

Fig 5. Attacking heading data representation

Fig 6. Attacking header graph representation

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Misplaced header are either headed to the opponent or played out. There has been only 4 outcomes throughout the match during the match, and it is also noted that all were from long passes from defensive area. Team attacking heading accuracy is 28.57%. However, there were more long lofted passes directing towards Number 8 Arturo Vidal in the match during open play situation.

Fig 7. Vidal attacking header.

Red lines are aerial duel lost, Blue line successful header, Black lines are Misplaced headers. It shows that Most of the ball were played to Vidal in the Zone 15 area. Vidal attacking heading accuracy is 16.67% from open play.

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Fig 8. Lofted Crosses.

Blue denotes successful cross which had an impact in zone 17, while Red lines denotes unsuccessful crosses. 1 out of 8 crosses were successful which is 12.5% accuracy, and also this graph shows that more lofted crosses were attempted from left side of the pitch, but however only couple of crosses were delivered inside the box. Mena(2) crossing quality is 0.00%, 4 unsuccessful cross, while Isla(4) had 100% accuracy made 1 perfect lofted crossing, which had a impact in Zone 17.

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Fig 9. Ground Cross

Red lines denotes unsuccessful cross, Yellow denotes Assist, Blue denotes successful crosses. This data shows that 5 crosses were played on the ground and 3 crosses were completed successfully with the accuracy of 60% and one cross lead to goal, With Vargas(11) had 100% accuracy, while Isla(4) and Sanchez(7) had 50% accuracy of crossings. More ground crosses were attempted from the right side. However the lofted crosses weren't accurate, which lead to zero attempt on goal from heading. Hence opponent defending position is analysed while playing in the wider area.

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Fig 10. Brazil defensive position when ball played from wider area

As this image shows that, Dani Alves(2) of Brazil is marking Mena(2), who is giving the overlap run and Fernandinho(5) of Brazil, quickly closes down Vargas(11) who has the ball in order to pressure on the player and also 4 vs 2 inside the box, which gives numerical advantage for Brazil players inside the box as well as David Luiz(4) and Thiago Silva(3) of Brazil sits little bit back covering the essential area of the defense, which makes the Chilean players difficult to cross effectively, another example is given below.

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Fig 11. Brazil Defensive position when the ball is played from wider areas.

Discussion

As regards to attacking heading, the result shows that 2 successful heading which was passing type headers in the game, and 5 unsuccessful headers in the attacking zone of the pitch from open play. The important point to notice is that most long ball was played towards Vidal(8) in Zone 15. However his heading accuracy was only 16.67%, but certainly had the potential to win the headers in the attacking zone. The overall heading percentage was 28.57%, with zero attacking headers made in the zone 17, however it was due to accuracy of 12.25% in lofted crossing, where as the ground cross accuracy was better than the lofted cross be. The reason to this is because, Brazil was covering the essential area of the pitch, while the ball is played from wider area. Hence as a result Chile might have opted to play ground cross, because it created more space to receive and to shoot at goal and they made a good impact during that style of play rather than playing lofted cross where they had almost zero

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effect. And as a result there were not many outcomes and different types of headers performed other than placing header and Flick on.

Chile tried to keep ball by playing deep passes as well played long balls during many occasion, but however they lost possession most of the time when they played long balls, as the players found difficult to receive or flick-on the ball to their teammate. Isla was used very limited in the game during attacking transition, he had decent crossing accuracy comparatively to Mena who had 0.00% accuracy. Getting players into scoring position is only creating half chance of scoring, rest lies on the player who crosses the ball at the right place at the right time (Hughes, 1990). This never happened when Mena was crossing, his crosses never went beyond the first defender, Whereas Isla played a penetrating cross beyond the defender. Chile didn't have any trouble while defending against 4-3-3 formation which was used by the Brazil team, they were controlling the game though they didn't have enough scoring opportunities. Chile were very effective while playing the cross on the ground, as it every time lead to goal scoring opportunity except once, this was due to Brazil defense was sitting little bit back when the ball is played from wider area, so this allowed space for Chile attackers.

Strength

Vidal aerial ability, he was used as target man during long balls situation. If dead ball situation was included his accuracy might have been high.

Isla crossing ability, though he didn't come up forward mostly, whenever he crossed he was delivering dangerous delivery either ground cross or lofted cross.

Long ball from the back were accurate, played some dangerous ball beyond the defenders.

Weakness

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Mena crossing ability was poor with 0.00% accuracy.

Overall team lofted crossing accuracy was 12.5%

Attacking Heading accuracy from the team is poor with just 28.57%.

References

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Hughes, C. (1990). The Winning Formula. London: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, pp.66-69.

Hull, N. (2008). The Semantics of Heading the Ball. Soccer Journal, 53(2), p.59.

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