Watching Scotland’s performance on Sportscene the other night got me thinking. Have a look at the difference between us and the Portuguese at kick off time - Scotland took a short pass and lumped a diagonal ball forward to runners who were always second-best. Portugal took kick off backwards and knocked it about amongst their defenders, giving them all a touch of the ball.
I’ve seen loads of teams in this country do the thing Scotland did (which looks more like a rugby kickoff!), but it always looks gash and hands the ball to the opposition. Hibs do it too reasonably often.
Why?
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Thread: Kick offs
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15-10-2018 01:01 PM #1
Kick offs
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15-10-2018 02:52 PM #2
Happened a lot last season ball back to McGinn who hoofed the ball to the right in most cases went out for a throw in.
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15-10-2018 03:04 PM #3
Decent chance of winning the ball back high up the park from the throw in
Pretty sure Leicester did this when they win the league
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15-10-2018 03:07 PM #4
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Seen Sam Allardice explaining this once. It's a stats based tactic. In simple terms the team who makes the first forward pass (i.e. Straight from kick off statistically scores the first goal) it was something like 62% - 38% or something.
Edit - I'm now recalling him saying that from the restart of it's a throw-in you've the first chance of winnings a second ball high up the park and the team that wins the first one statistically wins more.Last edited by H18 SFR; 15-10-2018 at 03:09 PM.
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15-10-2018 05:57 PM #5
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