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Scanning, Contextual Factors, and Association With Performance in English Premier League Footballers: An Investigation Across a Season

Scanning in football (soccer) denotes an active head movement where a player’s face is temporarily directed away from the ball to gather information in preparation for subsequently engaging with the ball. The aim of this study was to learn more about the ways that 27 elite professional football play...

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Autores principales: Jordet, Geir, Aksum, Karl Marius, Pedersen, Daniel N., Walvekar, Anup, Trivedi, Arjav, McCall, Alan, Ivarsson, Andreas, Priestley, David
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7573254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33123039
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.553813
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author Jordet, Geir
Aksum, Karl Marius
Pedersen, Daniel N.
Walvekar, Anup
Trivedi, Arjav
McCall, Alan
Ivarsson, Andreas
Priestley, David
author_facet Jordet, Geir
Aksum, Karl Marius
Pedersen, Daniel N.
Walvekar, Anup
Trivedi, Arjav
McCall, Alan
Ivarsson, Andreas
Priestley, David
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description Scanning in football (soccer) denotes an active head movement where a player’s face is temporarily directed away from the ball to gather information in preparation for subsequently engaging with the ball. The aim of this study was to learn more about the ways that 27 elite professional football players in an English Premier League club use scanning in competitive matches, the conditions under which this behavior is exhibited, and the relationships between these behaviors and performance. Players were filmed across 21 matches, producing a total number of 9,574 individual ball possessions for analysis. Close-up video analyses of scanning show positional differences (with central midfielders and central defenders scanning most frequently, forwards least) and contextual differences (with relatively lower scanning frequency in situations with tight opponent pressure, in positions wide in the field and closer to the opponent’s goal, and under certain game state conditions). Players scan more frequently prior to giving passes than when they dribble, shoot, or only receive it, as well as prior to more long/forward passes compared to short/backward ones, although these differences are small. A Bayesian hierarchical model, which accounts for individual player differences and pass difficulty, suggests that the more a player scans, the higher the probability of completing a pass. In conclusion, match demands are likely to constrain the extent to which highly elite players scan, and scanning seems to have a small, but positive role in elite football players’ performance.
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spelling pubmed-75732542020-10-28 Scanning, Contextual Factors, and Association With Performance in English Premier League Footballers: An Investigation Across a Season Jordet, Geir Aksum, Karl Marius Pedersen, Daniel N. Walvekar, Anup Trivedi, Arjav McCall, Alan Ivarsson, Andreas Priestley, David Front Psychol Psychology Scanning in football (soccer) denotes an active head movement where a player’s face is temporarily directed away from the ball to gather information in preparation for subsequently engaging with the ball. The aim of this study was to learn more about the ways that 27 elite professional football players in an English Premier League club use scanning in competitive matches, the conditions under which this behavior is exhibited, and the relationships between these behaviors and performance. Players were filmed across 21 matches, producing a total number of 9,574 individual ball possessions for analysis. Close-up video analyses of scanning show positional differences (with central midfielders and central defenders scanning most frequently, forwards least) and contextual differences (with relatively lower scanning frequency in situations with tight opponent pressure, in positions wide in the field and closer to the opponent’s goal, and under certain game state conditions). Players scan more frequently prior to giving passes than when they dribble, shoot, or only receive it, as well as prior to more long/forward passes compared to short/backward ones, although these differences are small. A Bayesian hierarchical model, which accounts for individual player differences and pass difficulty, suggests that the more a player scans, the higher the probability of completing a pass. In conclusion, match demands are likely to constrain the extent to which highly elite players scan, and scanning seems to have a small, but positive role in elite football players’ performance. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7573254/ /pubmed/33123039 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.553813 Text en Copyright © 2020 Jordet, Aksum, Pedersen, Walvekar, Trivedi, McCall, Ivarsson and Priestley. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Walvekar, Anup
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McCall, Alan
Ivarsson, Andreas
Priestley, David
Scanning, Contextual Factors, and Association With Performance in English Premier League Footballers: An Investigation Across a Season
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title_sort scanning, contextual factors, and association with performance in english premier league footballers: an investigation across a season
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7573254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33123039
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.553813
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