League One is kind of enough to provide us fans with some serious data on every game from Opta. Here are three insights I’ve gleaned last night’s game. This is Data Dump.
1) Our full backs are providing a lot of our wing play.
If you look at the heat maps for our full backs (Dami Viader and Luke Hauswirth):
And compare them to our wide midfield players (Evan Conway, Sebastián Contreras, Austin Panchot, Christian Molina):
You can see that Dami and Luke are providing a lot of the play along the sidelines in our opponents half.
You can also see that our full backs provided all but one of our successful crosses in the game.
2) Brick walls can pass, too.
Looking at player stats for our backline we can see that our center backs were two of the most prolific passers on the team.
We can also see that our center backs were successful in completing passes in areas where turnovers would be disastrous.
Additionally, we can see that Jake, the former left back, was more willing to try attack oriented passes than Illal was. Many of these passes were unsuccessful, but they were from reasonable positions to try risky passes.
3) Elma was everywhere.
If it felt like Elma Nfor, (just one part of the now potent Triple E Offense (Elma, Evan, Ethan) was everywhere last night, he sort of was. He was involved in a match high 20 duels (defined as 50/50 balls).
He also had measurable contributions all over the pitch.
When compared to Juan’s game against North Texas (a bit of apples to oranges here), it seems like Jay Mims once again played the right card.
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