Abstract
Victory is the ultimate aim in high performance sports; when it comes to team sports, the goal is the key that allows players to achieve that victory. This is the case with futsal which, due to its internal structure as well as the speed in the development of its game, makes the achievement of a goal not an isolated event, but rather more than one goal must be scored to achieve victory. The aim of the present study is to analyze the construction of offensive sequences that have resulted in goal-scoring in the two main European futsal leagues, the Spanish and the Italian, as well as to identify the patterns relating to offensive actions that have ended with a goal being scored. Observational methodology was used to develop the research and an ad hoc observation instrument (OAF-I) was developed for this purpose. The data was analyzed using inferential statistics as well as sequential analysis of delays in a diachronic analysis to identify the patterns of offensive actions. The results obtained enable recognition of a league’s idiosyncrasy patterns in goal-scoring in each of the leagues studied. The results obtained will allow experts to have a better understanding of how goals are scored and how to establish more specific training tasks, in both attack and defense.
Highlights
The attack-defense duel is the essence of team sports (Garganta, 2009), where game systems are defined as the base structures representing the way in which players, as well as the functions to be developed, are distributed across the playing field, determining the offensive and defensive attitude of the players and the team (Pascual et al, 2019)
The aim of the present study is to analyze the construction of offensive sequences that have resulted in goal-scoring in the two main European futsal leagues, the Spanish and the Italian, as well as to identify the patterns relating to offensive actions that have ended with a goal being scored
This study was proposed with two complementary objectives: firstly, to analyze and identify the types of plays corresponding to the offensive sequences resulting in goals in the two greatest European futsal leagues, the Spanish and Italian leagues, during the 2014-2015 season, and secondly, to identify and compare the behavioral patterns corresponding to their offensive actions that resulted in a goal in both leagues during that competition
Summary
The attack-defense duel is the essence of team sports (Garganta, 2009), where game systems are defined as the base structures representing the way in which players, as well as the functions to be developed, are distributed across the playing field, determining the offensive and defensive attitude of the players and the team (Pascual et al, 2019). Patterns Produced in European Futsal importance (Abdel-Hakim, 2014) This factor is especially admissible in regard to competition and high-level teams as the pressing professionalism and demand at every physiological, physical, technical-tactical, and psychological level increases equality amongst competitors (Álvarez et al, 2002, 2004). The research community has shown growing interest in responding to how the offensive game develops and in trying to identify common behavioral patterns that are produced and replicated during particular attack sequences (Lapresa et al, 2013; Sarmento et al, 2016) in such a way that the repetition of behavior appears over time and favors their predictable recurrence (James, 2012) The largest amount of research in that regard focuses on quantitative aspects (Hristovski et al, 2017), which is why the following questions arise: what circumstances need to take place in the development of the offensive action in order for the goal to be scored and what behaviors are repeated to achieve that? In this respect, the research community has shown growing interest in responding to how the offensive game develops and in trying to identify common behavioral patterns that are produced and replicated during particular attack sequences (Lapresa et al, 2013; Sarmento et al, 2016) in such a way that the repetition of behavior appears over time and favors their predictable recurrence (James, 2012)
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