Technical demands across playing positions of the Asian Cup in male football

Georgios Ermidis, Morten B. Randers, Peter Krustrup and Magni Mohr

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2019, vol. 19, issue 4, 530-542

Abstract: The aim of this study was to compare technical variables by playing positions in football during the 2015 Asian Cup. Top-level male football players (n = 202) that completed the full 90-min game were considered. Match-analysis data were collected using OPTA Sportsdata (www.optasports.com). Kruskal–Wallis H non-parametric test revealed that external midfielders (EM) scored more goals than fullbacks (FB) (p = 0.042), and that FB had less attempts (to score a goal) than central midfielders (CM), EM and forwards (FW), whereas central defenders (CD) had less attempts than FW (p

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2019.1632571

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