Player Positional Tracker: Liverpool v Aston Villa
By Colin Trainor|September 13, 2014 |
Player Positional Tracker
Liverpool 0 vs 1 Aston Villa
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Some things I noticed from this PPT:
1st Half:
It took 25 minutes for Gerrard to retreat into his usual deep defensive spot, up until that time his dot continually appears in the Aston Villa half - this isn't the normal spot for the 2014 version of Stevie G
No surprise that Aston Villa seen very little of the ball after they took the lead
Lallana's dot was very small for virtually all of the first half; this suggests that he wasn't able to get himself involved from an attacking point of view. It was only during the last 5 minutes of the half that his dot increases in size
Cleverley played in a relatively advanced position. Delph was consistently behind Villa's new signing, indeed Agbonlahor is even shown as being more defensively located at certain times in the half
2nd Half:
Liverpool virtually played a 2-2-6 formation during the second half as they attempted to find the equaliser
Lambert's extreme movements is due to the few actions (and therefore reference points for us to calculate) he had as a late sub. The fewer the number of actions the less smoothing we can do to his recorded locations
Balotelli wasn't able to get himself involved. His dot was continually the smallest out of Liverpool's 6 attacking players. Probably no surprise to see Super Mario being substituted off
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