Abstract
The area of tactics in soccer game is of particular importance for modern soccer development. The analysis and improvement of spatio-temporal indicators as well as the game principles related to tactics may be crucial to the achievement of competitive results. This study is aimed at comparing tactical manifestations of the teams competing in the top quality European club competition, the Champions League, and the best Serbian soccer championship by analyzing competitive activity. The results of the conducted research were obtained by observing an overall of 20 randomly selected matches, 10 of the Champions League (CL) and 10 of the Serbian Super Liga (SSL), which is a sufficient number of matches for making conclusions about the competitions respectively. In the previously designed observing protocol, using a method of notation, we analyzed all the attacks completed by shooting at the opponent's goal. The structure of successfully realized attacks was assessed on the basis of: accuracy, types of realized offensive actions; area of starting the action, manner of realization of passes completed (assists) and distance from the goal from which a shot on goal was executed. The study showed that there are certain common characteristics, but also there are differences in the structure of successfully realized attacks between the two analyzed competitions. The teams of the CL competition had significantly greater number of effective attacks per match (p = 0. 006), they realized their offensive activities with slightly greater number of players (p = 0.002) and number of passes (p = 0.000), whereas there are no significant differences in the area of starting successful attacks, the manner of realization of assists and distance from which shots on goal were executed. The study results may define certain guidelines in training technology when preparing the teams of the SSL competition for taking part in the European soccer cups.
Highlights
Achievement of top results in soccer requires good preparation of players, namely: technical, tactical, physical, psychological, educational and theoretical. ese components of preparation, despite their regularities and speci city, are indispensable factors of the comprehensive, integral preparation of soccer players. rough its evolution, the game of soccer has passed certain development periods dominated by a single form of preparation
All the matches were played in the season 2014/2015, as follows: ten matches were played in the Serbian Super Liga (SSL), and ten matches in the Champions League (CL)
Analysing the representation of successful attacks in the course of the match, which was observed through 6 time periods lasting 15 minutes each, it may be stated that there are no signi cant di erences between the matches of the CL and those of the Serbian SuperLiga (SSL) competition (Graph 1)
Summary
Achievement of top results in soccer requires good preparation of players, namely: technical, tactical, physical, psychological, educational and theoretical. ese components of preparation, despite their regularities and speci city, are indispensable factors of the comprehensive, integral preparation of soccer players. rough its evolution, the game of soccer has passed certain development periods dominated by a single form of preparation. Achievement of top results in soccer requires good preparation of players, namely: technical, tactical, physical, psychological, educational and theoretical. Rough its evolution, the game of soccer has passed certain development periods dominated by a single form of preparation. Active play duration has been decreased and the intensity increased, and duration of the period when the ball is out of play has increased. Compared to the 1966 World Cup, the speed of ball movement has increased by 15%, and the passing frequency has increased by 35%, along with higher player density in the playing area (Wallace, & Norton, 2013). Analysis of the competitive activity is quite important and necessary to determine the directions of soccer development or, more precisely, to de ne the directions and objectives of the overall training and technological process. Qualitative analysis of the matches, on the other hand, is more objective
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