Kitto All Saints vs Plymouth Trophyman Saturday 12th April
The footage shown through up some surprising results when looked back upon at a later date. Myself and my assistant manager Sam's initial reaction when watching the game was that our game was poor all round however despite the poor scoreline and lack of shots, there were some very pleasing statistics in other areas. The biggest surprise statistics came in the sense of our passing game, where I believed we were poor throughout but in fact we edged possession over our opponents and had a better pass success rate all over the pitch.
Having said that we still very rarely managed to put a passing move of more than 3 or 4 passes together which is something we clearly need to work on. Also our reasonable ball retention in the final third is deceiving as not once did it lead to a clear cut opportunity. In fact it could be argued we should be risking having a lesser final third pass percentage by trying more incisive passes which may unlock a deference rather than simply trying to keep the ball.
Also as our perception of the game was that we were constantly on the back foot, the one area we thought we may have dominated was in the the tackle based on the fact they had more shots so we had more to do. The stats show however that we were out tackled and the opposition also made more interceptions that ourselves indicating either that we worked them just as hard or harder in the final third or perhaps more likely that we missed a lot of chances to tackle and intercept which in turn led to the heavy scoreline.
The individual statistics we generated threw up the most pertinent results in the sense that what we found, although more analysis is needed may dramatically change the future development of two of our players. As the table on the left shows Player A had by far the highest outfield pass success rate and also by far the. highest final third pass success rate at 100%. This is despite the fact that he was playing in a defensive role as opposed to Player I who was playing in attack and managed a pass success rate of just 33% and 0% in the final third however he was one of our most proficient tacklers. This indicates it may be worth swapping the two player for the benefit of both the team and their own development.
Having said that we still very rarely managed to put a passing move of more than 3 or 4 passes together which is something we clearly need to work on. Also our reasonable ball retention in the final third is deceiving as not once did it lead to a clear cut opportunity. In fact it could be argued we should be risking having a lesser final third pass percentage by trying more incisive passes which may unlock a deference rather than simply trying to keep the ball.
Also as our perception of the game was that we were constantly on the back foot, the one area we thought we may have dominated was in the the tackle based on the fact they had more shots so we had more to do. The stats show however that we were out tackled and the opposition also made more interceptions that ourselves indicating either that we worked them just as hard or harder in the final third or perhaps more likely that we missed a lot of chances to tackle and intercept which in turn led to the heavy scoreline.
The individual statistics we generated threw up the most pertinent results in the sense that what we found, although more analysis is needed may dramatically change the future development of two of our players. As the table on the left shows Player A had by far the highest outfield pass success rate and also by far the. highest final third pass success rate at 100%. This is despite the fact that he was playing in a defensive role as opposed to Player I who was playing in attack and managed a pass success rate of just 33% and 0% in the final third however he was one of our most proficient tacklers. This indicates it may be worth swapping the two player for the benefit of both the team and their own development.