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Defensive & Offensive patterns over the duration of a match and season: An analysis of the 2013/2014 English Premier League and Spanish La Liga

Aim:
1.    The aim of this study is to expand the understanding of offensive and defensive key performance indicators (KPIS) in football from two different professional leagues and to demonstrate whether the KPIS can show a consistent pattern in the overall outcome of the game.

Objectives:
2.    To investigate whether there is a consistent defensive & offensive pattern in football matches that will determine the end result of the football match.
3.    To investigate where the critical incidents took place and whether there is any pattern or effect on the outcome of the game.
4.    To investigate the differences between two professional football leagues and draw comparisons between them.

The actual defensive variables that will be measured are the number of Ball recoveries in a match. Ball recoveries is when a player wins the ball back when it’s gone loose or where the ball has been played directly to them. Number of successful & unsuccessful Tackles will be taken into consideration as well. A tackle is defined as where a player connects with the ball in ground challenge where he successfully takes the ball away from the man in possession. All tackles are really a successful event. A Tackle Won is deemed to be where the tackler or one of his team-mates regains possession as a result of the challenge, or that the ball goes out of play. Interceptions, this is where a player intentionally intercepts a pass by moving into the line of the intended ball Lastly number of aerial duels won is among the dependent variable. Duels are termed as a 50-50 contest between two players of opposing sides in the match. For every duel won there is a corresponding duel lost depending on the outcome of the duel. An aerial duel however Is when two players challenge in the air against each other. The player that wins the ball is deemed to have won the duel. When more than two players are involved the player closest to the duel winner is given an Aerial Duel lost (Opta Sports, 2013).

The offensive variables are number of passes, a pass is an intended ball played by one player to another. The percentage of pass completion will also be a measurable variable, this is a simple formula where Successful passes are divided by Total attempted passes in whichever combination of passes is selected, and this however excludes crosses. Number of attacking third passes is another variable considered, this is the number of passes but limited to the oppositions final third. The percentage of possession will also be measured in each match analysed. This is the amount of time a team possesses the ball for the duration of the game (Opta Sports, 2013).


Above is the variables I will be looking at in my Dissertation, data will come from a iPhone application called FourFourTwo Football Stats Zone and I will need 2 pages for a Methodology and 2 pages for the Literature Review please include a detailed Rationale for the reason for the study with references as well within the Lit review. For the Methods I will be mainly using IBM SPSS statistics 19 and above and any other Microsoft Applications (Word, Excel etc.) So means of the variables of the matches won (you decide why and the number of wins backed up with references) for all the variables will be gathered.

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