What performance analysts need to know about research trends in association football (2012–2016): A systematic review

H Sarmento, FM Clemente, D Araújo, K Davids… - Sports medicine, 2018 - Springer
Background Evolving patterns of match analysis research need to be systematically
reviewed regularly since this area of work is burgeoning rapidly and studies can offer new …

Methods of performance analysis in team invasion sports: A systematic review

F Lord, DB Pyne, M Welvaert, JK Mara - Journal of sports sciences, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of this review was to systematically describe the traditional and contemporary
data capture and analytic methods employed in performance analysis research in team …

Influence of contextual variables on styles of play in soccer

J Fernandez-Navarro, L Fradua… - … Analysis in Sport, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of match status, venue, and quality of
opposition on the styles of play in soccer. Data were collected from 380 games of the …

A social network analysis of the goal scoring passing networks of the 2016 European Football Championships

S Mclean, PM Salmon, AD Gorman, NJ Stevens… - Human movement …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the current study, social network analysis (SNA) and notational analysis (NA) methods
were applied to examine the goal scoring passing networks (GSPN) for all goals scored at …

Player position relationships with centrality in the passing network of world cup soccer teams: Win/loss match comparisons

FM Clemente, H Sarmento, R Aquino - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020 - Elsevier
Among elite national soccer team play of the 2018 FIFA World Cub, we analyzed (a) network
centrality variations between playing positions during passing sequences, and (b) their …

Playing tactics, contextual variables and offensive effectiveness in English Premier League soccer matches. A multilevel analysis

J González-Rodenas, R Aranda-Malaves… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The aim of this study was to investigate the combined effects of tactical and contextual
indicators on achieving offensive penetration and scoring opportunities in English Premier …

The influence of match status on ball possession in high performance women's football

R Maneiro, JL Losada, CA Casal, A Ardá - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The objective of this study was to examine the effect of the situational match status variable
on the ball possession of the teams that participated in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup …

Influence of match status on players' prominence and teams' network properties during 2018 FIFA World Cup

GM Praça, BB Lima, SGT Bredt, RBE Sousa… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The analyses of players and teams' behaviors during the FIFA World Cup may provide a
better understanding on how football tactics and strategies have developed in the past few …

Exploring the determinants of success in different clusters of ball possession sequences in soccer

M Merlin, SA Cunha, FA Moura, RS Torres… - Research in sports …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was two-step:(1) classify ball possession (BP) according to the
duration and number of passes and (2) identify which tactical variables most discriminate the …

Identification of explanatory variables in possession of the ball in high-performance women's football

R Maneiro, JL Losada, CA Casal, A Ardá - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Women's football is a phenomenon that is experiencing an unstoppable increase in recent
years. The objective of this study was to analyze how ball possessions are performed in high …