- By batavia
- On Dec 10, 2019
What’s your team’s playing style this season? Adam Smith checks under the hood working with a brand new assortment of advanced stats…
Opta has produced a variety of stats which go beyond goals, such as departure sequences, progress in ownership, rate in pressing and attack against resistance.
Here, we select some of the main stats and compare each of 20 clubs to reveal signs of weaknesses and strengths, as well as striking similarities between teams.
Firstly, let’s rattle through the definitions, until we find out the results…
Manchester City are excelling across almost all metrics that are complex.
The reigning champions lag for’speed’ and’direct attacks’, but this is due to their domination in possession.
Pep Guardiola’s side don’t have to bomb forwards with all the ball, as a result of their numbers for’pass sequences’ and’build-up strikes’. Their runners burst from the blocks to create space, though.
Liverpool only trail City by the smallest of margins along with a raft of those metrics – but notably strike at rapid speeds with fewer moves. Chelsea are extremely similar to Liverpool but less successful with the product.
Tottenham, arsenal and Manchester United have fashions comparable with emphasis on pressing in the attacking third, but with Liverpool .
While Spurs achieve pass sequences that are more individual in a speed rivalled by Leicester, and bettered by Manchester City United and arsenal focus on successfully dividing in speed.
In fact, Crystal Palace and West Ham have started the season in similar style, but using passing mixes, and so attacks after individual exchanges – which verges towards the’Attack once you’re able to!’ Style below.
Everton and Leicester kicked off the season in styles, pressing against resistance than every other top-flight club.
Far stable possession is achieved by Leicester, although the Toffees are slightly more capable of winning back the ball upfield.
Both teams start looking for alterations and start passing sequences suggesting opposing sides sit deeper.
Groups pushing towards this design: Watford, Southampton and Bournemouth
No fewer than seven teams fit into what might be described as a’bottom-half’ style, with fewer build-up attacks, below-average passing strings, along with a dependence on counter-attacks after winning ownership in the middle next.
Surprisingly, the last seasons’best of the rest’, Wolves, fit in to this group, but the side of Nuno Espirito Santo have faced a tough opening program, such as Leicester, Manchester United and Everton.
Other groups that fit into this group contain Norwich, Brighton, Burnley, Newcastle and Aston Villa, although Sheffield United match these tropes but lack pace.
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