The subject of this master's thesis is the analysis of attack-related game aspects of all the teams participating in the elite round of the Champions league in Maribor in 2016. The purpose of the analysis was to identify the characteristics of the attack-related game aspects of the individual team, compare these characteristics between the teams, set out common characteristics and differences and determine why were some teams better than the other ones.
6 matches were played in the tournament and each one of the 4 participating teams played 3 matches. The data was collected by watching games and filling out the form. There were 8 main variables: type of attack, analysis of leading the ball, analysis of lost balls, analysis of created opportunities, analysis of opportunities from set pieces, analysis of passes, analysis of shots, analysis of scored goals. The variables were divided into 34 sub-variables.
After we finished watching the matches and making notes, we collected, organized and counted all the gathered data. Each club was statistically described with variables from the individual match. For a detailed analysis of successfulness between clubs we used the Kruskall-Wallis test.
We set up a total of 12 null hypotheses. They were tested with a 5% level of significance. 11 were accepted and 1 rejected. Statistical significant differences among teams were found only in the time of the attack until the scored goal. Otherwise, there were no statistical significant differences.
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