The distinction is natural, due to their different formats (largely involving the numbers of overs bowled and innings played), the type of balls used and fielding requirements.
Seville's adopted son Rakitic on Europa League glory and why he went 'home' in 2020įootball can learn from cricket, where Twenty20, one-day internationals and Test matches are viewed as separate disciplines. Last season, their No 9 Karim Benzema (15) was the top scorer in the Champions League and their goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois (4.6) prevented the most additional goals of any goalkeeper (based on the quality of shots faced, according to xG data.) His nine saves against Liverpool were the most in a single Champions League final (albeit data on that has only been kept since 2003-04). Goal prevention and goalscoring are becoming forgotten skills, and are wrongly undervalued when it comes to analysing teams such as Real Madrid. Their five Champions League wins in the last nine completed seasons have desensitised many to Real Madrid’s European success, as though they arrive at the stadium on final day without a tactical plan and leave with the trophy a few hours later purely through sheer individual brilliance, the awesome power of Carlo Ancelotti’s eyebrows, and good old pure luck. This is important because metrics such as xG form, or at least contribute to, the predictive models that successful cup sides often “break”. Using such data on a single-game basis is, according to Opta website The Analyst - which collates xG data - “the most common” misuse of the statistic. Across a 38-game Premier League season, for example, overperforming and underperforming teams can regress and improve, but cup competitions do not offer the same scope. This applies for league formats, where predictive metrics such as expected goals (xG), a measurement of chance quality, are used to forecast long-term performance. Often, what happens between both penalty boxes is considered more important and controllable than what happens within them, to the extent that managers or coaches now talk about the result and performance as separate entities. Contemporary analysis, of which I am guilty, is hyper-focused on repeatable, predictable patterns, on team shapes and structures.
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