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Post-Match Report 📊🧵

Argentina 2-1 Australia

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Argentina starting XI passing sonars

Australia starting XI passing sonars

Argentina's expected threat (xT) via pass, with the player in each zone being the top xT player in that zone, and all the players' total xT via pass in the table to the right

Australia's expected threat (xT) via pass, with the player in each zone being the top xT player in that zone, and all the players' total xT via pass in the table to the right

All Argentina passes separated into 30 zones

All Australia passes separated into 30 zones

Argentina's main passing flows. Each arrow represents at least 3 completed passes from the arrow's origin zone to the arrowhead's zone.

A darker color indicates more passes.

Beautiful map, truly

Australia's main passing flows. Each arrow represents at least 3 completed passes from the arrow's origin zone to the arrowhead's zone.

A darker color indicates more passes

Expected Threat (xT) from passes, zone control.

Areas shaded in a team's color means they had more xT from passes in that zone.

Argentina absolutely dominated this metric centrally, and we can see Australia's reliance on the wide areas for threat generation

Zooming in on the attacking pressure index