It’s Wednesday morning and half the nights since the game I’ve had dreams about UO being unable to get a goal while down 1-0. I view this level of personal emotional investment as a good sign and hope that we all are feeling as strongly as ever that simply having the opportunity to be furious at a PRO referee is a pretty good win. Let’s dive in.
1) How did Jake do replacing Dami?
Going into the match one of the biggest questions I had was who is our left back? The answer was Jake Crull. Jake seemed to step into all of Dami’s duties including set pieces. Let’s see how he did:
Dami’s passing accuracy on the season is 73.9% and 58.7% while in the opponents’ half. Jake’s numbers compare favorably there. Let’s look at how Dami did vs. Tormenta in these categories.
What jumps out to me is that Dami won 2/3 of his duels and Jake won none of his. One key thing Dami provides for us is offense. How did Jake do there?
Starting with shots, Jake was 1 for 4 in this match which happens to be what Dami’s season long stats are. As for crosses, Jake’s 33% success rate on crosses compares favorably to Dami’s 36.8% rate for the season.
As for chances Dami is averaging a little more than 2 per game. So 4 chances for Jake is good production from a UO left back.
For good measure here is Jake’s heat map for the game.
If anything Jake looked to get into the final third a bit more than Dami usually does. Overall, it seems like Jake may have offered a smidge more offensive firepower at the expense of some defensive stability.
2) Daltyn in the diamond.
Instead of playing the hits here and looking at the center back play on the game, I want to talk about something I speculated could happen a few weeks ago in a column. Daltyn came on as a holding midfielder!
I was pretty sure from where I was sitting we were playing a midfield diamond, which was an interesting look for us and as a Chelsea fan who loved José Mourinho, I loved it. Dalytn’s touches look to be above the backline and through the middle, as you might expect. Coming on at the 74′ limits the amount of data available, but it was an interesting look.
3) Crosses, crosses everywhere.
If you felt like we had a lot of crosses it is probably because we did.
In case it isn’t clear, we’re the team on the right side. We had 25 crosses in the game, almost double our average of 13.8 crosses per game. We average 3.6 successful crosses per game and have a 26.10% crossing success rate on the season. In this game we completed six crosses or 24% of them.
We also took a lot of shots.
We absolutely peppered their goalmouth. And we had a number of shots from distance that were on target which seemed like a new thing for us, but this is a bangers only league, so probably the right thing for us to be doing. Let’s look at our closets shots though.
I’m always hoping to find that one chart that sums up the whole game, and for this game it is this chart. Above you will see that not one single shot we took inside the Revs II box was on target.
Anyway, Viva Buhos friends! See you Saturday night!
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