Analyzing College Soccer

Analyzing specific plays from college soccer in an objective way.

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This account is intended to analyze specific plays of college soccer from a neutral standpoint of view.

Feedback and discussion are highly appreciate it in order to explore different points of view.

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The key factor is how much movement there is from the players who are waiting for the ball. It makes it hard for the defender to track them specially in 1vs1 situations where they have to look at who's crossing and follow their man. Two goals came from crosses.

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🔎Crossing

Stanford's attack consists on finding space in order to cross a ball into the box. Whether it's an early cross, a free kick, a ball to the space, getting to the end line, etc...

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⚽️Pacific(0) vs Stanford(4)

🗓️Oct 30th, 2020

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they had the ball on their feet.

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🔎Sitting on the back

It was an easy game for Stanford's defense for two reasons:

1⃣Didn't receive any dangerous attack situations from Pacific.
2⃣Pacific let them play, there was no pressure.

This video shows how much time and space they had to take a decision when...

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⚽️Pacific(0) vs Stanford(4)

🗓️Oct 30th, 2020

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a short ball and counter-attack as quick as possible.

Lastly, even when Stanford was winning 4-0, they didn't stop pressing. It tells a lot about their work ethic and it confirms why they have been a top team in the nation for many years.

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🔎Playing short / building from the back

Even though Pacific had the intention to play short on
goal kicks, most of the times they didn't. Their keeper was forced to play long because there wasn't enough space for doing so.

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⚽️Pacific(0) vs Stanford(4)

🗓️Oct 30th, 2020

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taken advantage of this if they would have "forced" him to play short with his left CB by giving him space to do so. Then, if he does it, they could have forced the CB to play back so that the keeper would have to clear the ball with his left foot and hopefully recover...

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significant danger.

I'll get into more details about what I think could've been done and the game itself...

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⚽️Pacific(0) vs Stanford(4)

🗓️Oct 30th, 2020

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This was key for them to create their chances.

Pacific tried to play short occasionally but they lost most of those balls. Whenever they played long, they weren't successful as well. They created very few chances (maybe 2) which didn't represent a...

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@WhitecapsFC @noverheul How much attention will be given to college soccer?

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🔎 Possesion

Gonzaga is team who feels comfortable possessing the ball, it takes them almost 20 passes to transition to the other half.

In addition, I really like W's transitions. They handle distances pretty well in order to not give away spaces within/between the lines.

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⚽️Gonzaga(0) vs Washington(3)

🗓️ Oct 30th, 2020

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🔎Pressing

Throughout the game W's attacking players were always looking for the right moment (scanning the environment) to start pressing in order to choke Gonzaga's defense.

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⚽️Gonzaga(0) vs Washington(3)

🗓️ Oct 30th, 2020