Quantitative game analysis of a professional elite soccer team from Minas Gerais state - DOI: 10.4025/reveducfis.v20i1.5840

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the quantitative actions occurred in the games of an elite soccer time from Minas Gerais state considering results parameters, tactical system, playing order and game time. The sample was composed by a team that competed in the official Soccer Federation from Minas Gerais state championship in the professional category. The categories analyzed were: tackles, tacked and lost balls, finalizations, crossing, committed and suffered faults and wrong passes. By the software Bioestat 5.0, a descriptive measurement of central tendency and inferential plan were used and to differences between means the student’s t-test was used – level of significance 5%. The main results point to differences between quantity of controlled variables in the halves, results, tactical system, playing order, while the tactical functions exercised by the soccer players differ in the quantity of finalizations and tackles during the matches.