Take a look at our heatmaps... offensive struggles

Resch

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Modern football is all about maximizing and minimizing space and time on the pitch for your opponent and yourself. As a defending team you try to minimize space and time for your opponents, small distances and a maximum of stress. The attacking team needs quick reactions and precision. As an attacking team, you want to stress your opponent too, but you want to use the space between or behind the lines. To create such spaces, a team tries to move the ball fast, stretch and concentrate the defense to force them into errors. The heatmaps give us a clue, how a team creates or uses this space. Good teams have heatmaps which look like tridents or tongs. Ours looks like an arrow most of the time. We play through the middle, which allows our opponents to defend as a low block, without much movement. Our wings and fullbacks do not use the space on the wings enough, which causes a one-dimensional attacking game, makes us predictable. Antony always drifts inside, ball on his left foot. Our fullbacks overlap enough or do not get the ball. Sometimes, very rarely, we use the wings, we stretch the defense and many of these attacks are not useful, because our strikers are surprised, and we have not enough players in the box. But we can make such attacks, most of them are very dangerous, but they are massively underrepresented. Why?
 
The second map really illustrates the point.
 
The second map really illustrates the point.

agreed. i have to say i thought it was all a garbled mess until i saw the maps. then it all clicked into place.
 
If you squint really hard the 3rd heat map looks like a penguin riding a bicycle.

hmm. i’m far from a trained psychiatrist, but the fact you see that is troubling. can i ask what your relationship is like with your mother?
 
Dunno bout you lot but I don't see any maps.
 
Those heatmaps suggest our attack is crap. Is this because of Weghorst?
 
I see the problem, you've tried to link Martial's heatmap.
 
you’re really missing out. it’s like everything i thought i knew about football is a lie.
I only ever listened to anything sexual you had to say anyway.
 
Great maps but some of the things in there really shouldnt be on the internet to be honest.
 
Modern football is all about maximizing and minimizing space and time on the pitch for your opponent and yourself. As a defending team you try to minimize space and time for your opponents, small distances and a maximum of stress. The attacking team needs quick reactions and precision. As an attacking team, you want to stress your opponent too, but you want to use the space between or behind the lines. To create such spaces, a team tries to move the ball fast, stretch and concentrate the defense to force them into errors. The heatmaps give us a clue, how a team creates or uses this space. Good teams have heatmaps which look like tridents or tongs. Ours looks like an arrow most of the time. We play through the middle, which allows our opponents to defend as a low block, without much movement. Our wings and fullbacks do not use the space on the wings enough, which causes a one-dimensional attacking game, makes us predictable. Antony always drifts inside, ball on his left foot. Our fullbacks overlap enough or do not get the ball. Sometimes, very rarely, we use the wings, we stretch the defense and many of these attacks are not useful, because our strikers are surprised, and we have not enough players in the box. But we can make such attacks, most of them are very dangerous, but they are massively underrepresented. Why?
Our team is still mastering how to attack utilizing space the Dutch way. We are just 6 months in to the course. We still have a lot of kinks to work out in the final third. Right now our right side attackers slow down the play to cut in. Rather than to drag the fullback infield to create space for the fullback to get in behind for the wide cut back or cross. I still believe its because that side of the teams is bring rebuilt after years of neglect
 
With the emphasis on data science, I bet manager has already done the analysis of these heatmaps but perhaps worth a while for OP to email them to him to be sure.
 
I was confused until I realised that the algorithm was subjugating the basic cognitive processing the outlying synergy of the relationship between both the former and latter parts of the transitional structure being duplicated prior to their process implantation being imprinted in an opaque manner thereby allowing the thread to create a structure which in essence meant that the thread itself became somewhat of a disjointed disharmony paralleling both the direction of attack and even making it difficult to defend.

It's really quite simple.
 
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I know what you’re trying to do, and it’s not gonna work… those heatmaps are mine dammit and I’m not gonna show them to nobody!
 
I the left right imbalance is mainly due to Shaw being fit and Dalot getting injured for a long time. We know how good/bad Shaw/AWB are at attacking the space on their side and so will be reflected in the heat maps. If we can keep Dalot fit and firing as he was at the start of the season it will go some way to reducing the left side balance we have atm.
 
The actual heatmap is irrelevant, it's how you perceive the heatmap that is key.


What they actually show is how poor De Gea is at shot stopping.