The Barcelona leaves nothing to chance. Aware that the new normal involve play the next matches at the Camp Nou without an audience, the club has made a thorough and detailed study to see in to what extent will this new situation to the players. Under the title ‘Competition closed: can change the results of the parties?’, the document concludes that there is a real impact in the stimulation negative of the players at the did not have the support your hobby in the stands, as well as an incidence substantial in the decision of the arbitral decisions.
For a start, the report points out that the index of local victories in LaLiga it is a 61.1 per cent of the average this season, a balance that has Calcium as its maximum exponent, with a 62,25%, while the Bundesliga offers the worst average, a 58,35% of local victories. In the case Barcelonatheir average shoots up to 93% of wins at home this year, with a balance of 13 wins in 14 matches, the highest of all LaLiga. In fact, only Real Madrid of Zidane (0-0) has been able to scratch a point in the coliseum blaugrana in this course.
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Since resumed competitions after the confinement, this percentage of local victories it has been reduced by 10%, as reflected in the report. The players are greatly affected by this, both in the stimuli mood as metabolicthe absence of the public. In fact, the reduction of hormones as testosterone or cortisol in the players that they play at home is one of the evidences more palpable in matches without an audience. The Camp Nou prepares a series of actions for the players don’t feel so alone in the matches. In the first set of steps you will see a mosaic with the letters: ‘we all’, whereas in the corners will be placed banners and flags with messages of encouragement. It will also feature tarps behind the goals with the slogans ‘More than a club’ (Gol North) and ‘we all’ (Gol Sur). In the party this Tuesday before the Leganés as you can see all these actions that have as a goal that the players feel supported at all times by its fans.
Special attention it is dedicated in the report to the arbitrators, those who presumably are also affected by playing behind closed doors at the time of the making of the decisions. According to the document, the noise in the stands usually cause 15% of wrong decisions to favour of the local computer, as well as the time of draw cards the visiting team: since you play matches without public, have been taught a 0.5 yellow cards less visitors.
Within the report, there are a number of arguments that are at least surprising: the fact of playing without an audience it will affect most “teams small geographical areas with an ethnic identity is very strong”, before that “teams of big cities.” Also, the document warns Quique Setién “the coaches will have to prepare very well for footballers to deal with atmosphere very different competition to which they are accustomed”, to the time that concludes that “there is other factors as the previous preparation, the level of the opponents, the luck and injuries, you may end up conditioning and influence the results“.
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