Who Controls Territory

[SUIYHA]

Apologies if this is being discussed elsewhere but couldn't think of an appropriate thread to post it in.

Interesting graphic showing the breakdown of which zones on the pitch each team in the league is either having more or less touches than the opposition.



Everyone in the league is having fewer touches in the opposition box and by their own corner flags (because why would you be keeping the ball there?) - but it's highlighted an issue for me that we're not on the ball in the area just outside our opponents' box enough - at least less than all of our rivals in the top 7 bar West Ham which is to be expected. Interestingly, we seem to be more dominant than Arsenal or Man Utd in the area immediately around the centre circle. It highlights to me how much of our play is being forced out wide, or coming from long balls/breaks as opposed to clever link up play in the final third. I daresay if we'd been looking at a similar graph in the prime years of Dembele, Eriksen and Alli then it might well have looked different.

What this doesn't show is if some of the squares perhaps should be dark red or dark blue as it's hard to quantify, but still makes for some interesting reading.

 

[hughy]

If this is across the season it would be more interesting to see ours pre and post Conte arriving. I can imagine we have a lot more possession around the edge of the opponents area under Conte.

 

[mr ashley]

It’s an interesting graphic in that it tells a lot about how dominant teams are, but at the same time means nothing in terms of the league table. Look at Everton and Leeds for example, or West Ham compared to us
Personally, I think it’s no surprise that it illustrates that we dominate possession out wide because our formation sets us up to do exactly that.
Just as the teams that play in similar formations do the same (Brighton, Chelsea etc).
we do look a little more counter attacking as we don’t occupy the space directly outside the box as you say, but I think as has been mentioned that will reflect nuno’s reign more than an updated version under conte alone might do.

to me, this graph does suggest one thing.
Opposing teams are quite happy to push higher when defending against us, I think this is because they are less scared of getting caught out because we lack pace up front.
We do need more pace in attack.

edit. @SUIYHA sorry meant to reply to you directly