Live Breaking News & Updates on Gegenpressing pod

| 11 February 2021
While on the pitch Bayern Munich are cruising to a nine successive championship, off the pitch TV coverage of the top flight German football league, the Bundesliga, is becoming a lot more interesting with viewing boosted by machine learning and analytics services from AWS.
The enhancements are fundamentally designed to bring deeper insights to the game of football and enhance the fan experience with new advanced statistics including Most Pressed Player, Attacking Zones and Average Positions - Trends.
The new Match Facts – Most Pressed Player is a key match statistic in the home of the tactic of gegenpressing which has been used by German managers and in particular, with much success, by Jürgen Klopp. Most Pressed Player shows how often a player in possession of the ball experiences a significant pressure situation by measuring the number of opposing players involved, their distance to the player, as well as the direction of every players’ movement. This will also compare the number of pressing situations a player faces while in possession of the ball with the average number of pressure situations faced by their teammates, helping determine which players are under the most pressure.

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