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doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2011-090606.20

2011 45: A6-A7

Br J Sports Med

H Sarmento, A Marques, J Martins, et al.

league, Spain's La Liga and Italy's Serie A

Playing tactics in the English premier

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PLAYING TACTICS IN THE ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE, SPAIN´S LA LIGA AND ITALY´S SERIE A

H Sarmento, A Marques, J Martins, T Anguera, J Campaniço, J Leitão Rua Bombeiros Voluntários, Tarouca, Portugal

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The purpose of this study was to analyse the different styles of play (counter-attack (CA), fast attack (FA) and positional attack (PA)) in the football teams of Manchester United (MU), F.C.I. Milano (IM) and FC Barcelona (BA). The sample included 36 games (660 offensive sequences) from the 2009/2010 sporting season. The design used in the present study was descriptive and was based on an observational methodology applied to the acquisition of data, using a speciﬁ c instrument to observe the offensive process (Sarmento et al. Medicina (Kaunas) 2010;46:_{401–7). The study of the data reliability was calculated}

by the intra and inter observer agreement (Cohen’s κ>0.9). The analysis of the results showed that the teams of IM and BA tended more often to adopt the PA to perform their offensive action, while the MU played signiﬁ cantly more often in CA (X2_{(2)=36.8; p=0.000; n=245). The zones more often used to}

recover the ball possession are those that belong to the mid-ﬁ elder defensive sector. However, when the teams performed CA, they tended to recover more balls in zone 5 (central) of the ﬁ eld, when compared to other styles of play. In all the offensive styles, the IM is the only team that performed more frequently the last pass and the end action in the same zones (central zones). Curiously, the teams of BA e MU present regular ten-dencies in the zones more often used to perform the last pass (left hand zones and right hand zones, respectively) and the last action (central zones) in the PA and in the FA, but present differ-ent tendencies in relation to the CA. The MU team scored more goals through the CA, and the IM and BA scored more goals

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through the PA Although some studies tended to prove which is the most efﬁ cient style of play, we think that the important thing is not the duration of the offensive sequences, the num-ber of passes, or the velocity of the ball, but the obstacles that a team ﬁ nds while attacking in its way.