[Now Sports]The La Liga national derby breaks out on Saturday. Barcelona and Real Madrid are both in strong form, once again forming a close match. The following 5 points will determine the outcome:
1 oppression
Barcelona’s pressing is more aggressive and effective than any team in La Liga, while Real Madrid’s press is average. Taking PPDA (number of passes allowed per defense) as an example, Barcelona leads the league with 8.7 times, while Real Madrid only ranks 14th with 12.83 times. So far this season, Barcelona’s opponents have a pass success rate of only 75%, while Real Madrid’s opponents have a whopping 85.8%, which is the worst in the league.
2 possession of the ball
In terms of pure ball control, Barcelona is unsurprisingly at the top of La Liga, maintaining a 68.8% ball possession rate in 10 games, more than 10% higher than the second-place team. Barcelona’s control in the frontcourt The ball rate is also 68.4%, ranking first in La Liga. However, although Real Madrid possesses the ball significantly less often than Barcelona, the average number of touches in the penalty area is significantly more, with 32.74 touches per 90 minutes, while Barcelona only has 26.16 times.
3 hit by a pitch
Dead balls are often the key to winning or losing games, but both Barcelona and Real Madrid perform poorly in this regard. The number of expected goals created in dead balls is almost the same, with Barcelona at 0.28 and Real Madrid at 0.31.
4 Offensive and defensive transitions
Barcelona advocates keeping the ball at their feet and pressing in order to avoid too many offensive and defensive transitions. Their counterattack predicted goals per 90 minutes is 0.03, ranking only 17th in La Liga. At the same time, Real Madrid’s players are all good at counterattacks and can attack at extremely high speeds. This season, the predicted number of goals scored on counterattacks per 90 minutes is as high as 0.24.
5 buried door
Real Madrid’s current chief goalscorer and the current top scorer in La Liga, Bi Ning Xian, has an expected goals value of 33.3 in 186 games in his career, and finally scored 37 goals. Barcelona does not have as many shots as Real Madrid, but its expected goals on non-dead balls are the highest in La Liga at 21.7. The main reason is that it has striker Liyundovsky.
【La Liga】Barcelona VS Real Madrid
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2023-10-28 09:41:01
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