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Perceptions of Football Analysts Goal-Scoring Opportunity Predictions: A Qualitative Case Study

This study aimed to understand the way tactical football analysts perceive the general match analysis issues and to analyze their tactical interpretation of the predictive models of conceded goal-scoring opportunities. Nine tactical analysts responded to the semi-structured interviews that included...

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Autores principales: Aguado-Méndez, Rubén D., González-Jurado, José Antonio, Reina-Gómez, Álvaro, Otero-Saborido, Fernando Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8450592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34552540
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.735167
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author Aguado-Méndez, Rubén D.
González-Jurado, José Antonio
Reina-Gómez, Álvaro
Otero-Saborido, Fernando Manuel
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González-Jurado, José Antonio
Reina-Gómez, Álvaro
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description This study aimed to understand the way tactical football analysts perceive the general match analysis issues and to analyze their tactical interpretation of the predictive models of conceded goal-scoring opportunities. Nine tactical analysts responded to the semi-structured interviews that included a general section on the match analysis and a specific one on the results of a study on goal-scoring opportunities conceded by a Spanish La Liga team. Following their transcription, the interviews were codified into categories by the two researchers using Atlas Ti® software. Subsequently, frequency count and co-occurrence analysis were performed based on the encodings. The content analysis reflected that analysts play a crucial role in the analysis of their own team and that of the opponent, the essential skills to exercise as a tactical analyst being “understanding of the game” and “clear observation methodology.” Based on the case study of the conceded goal-scoring opportunities, the major causes and/or solutions attributed by analysts in some of the predictive models were the adaptability of the “style of play” itself according to the “opponent” and “pressure after losing.”
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spelling pubmed-84505922021-09-21 Perceptions of Football Analysts Goal-Scoring Opportunity Predictions: A Qualitative Case Study Aguado-Méndez, Rubén D. González-Jurado, José Antonio Reina-Gómez, Álvaro Otero-Saborido, Fernando Manuel Front Psychol Psychology This study aimed to understand the way tactical football analysts perceive the general match analysis issues and to analyze their tactical interpretation of the predictive models of conceded goal-scoring opportunities. Nine tactical analysts responded to the semi-structured interviews that included a general section on the match analysis and a specific one on the results of a study on goal-scoring opportunities conceded by a Spanish La Liga team. Following their transcription, the interviews were codified into categories by the two researchers using Atlas Ti® software. Subsequently, frequency count and co-occurrence analysis were performed based on the encodings. The content analysis reflected that analysts play a crucial role in the analysis of their own team and that of the opponent, the essential skills to exercise as a tactical analyst being “understanding of the game” and “clear observation methodology.” Based on the case study of the conceded goal-scoring opportunities, the major causes and/or solutions attributed by analysts in some of the predictive models were the adaptability of the “style of play” itself according to the “opponent” and “pressure after losing.” Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8450592/ /pubmed/34552540 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.735167 Text en Copyright © 2021 Aguado-Méndez, González-Jurado, Reina-Gómez and Otero-Saborido. https://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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Reina-Gómez, Álvaro
Otero-Saborido, Fernando Manuel
Perceptions of Football Analysts Goal-Scoring Opportunity Predictions: A Qualitative Case Study
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title_short Perceptions of Football Analysts Goal-Scoring Opportunity Predictions: A Qualitative Case Study
title_sort perceptions of football analysts goal-scoring opportunity predictions: a qualitative case study
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8450592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34552540
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.735167
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