Barnsley

They are really, really direct. Their regular players have a very low passing accuracy. The best passing accuracy is Freiser at 67.3%

To put that in perspective, Kebano (86.8%), NML (75.3%), Morsy (743%), Tav(74.2%), Spence (72.2%), McNair (71.8%), Watmore (71%), Saville (69.4%), Dijksteel (69.3%), Fisher (68.1%), Hall (67.6%), EVEN BRITT (67.6%) ALL have better passing figures than Barnsleys best passer. That's TWELVE of our players with better passing stats, than their best player....and people say we are direct!

Dike wins 5.9 headers per game, our best heading CF is Akpom with 2.6. He is better suited to direct play.

Their three CB are stronger than ours at interceptions and clearance's than ours. They're 6 foot 4, 6 foot 3 & 6 foot 2, and will not be beaten in the air from long direct balls. We need to look at pulling them wide and isolating them with our wingers.

Surprisingly they don't play more long balls in a match than we do, but they are more successful with it because they have a big lad up top.

I wouldn't worry about a midfield battle with them, letting them have the ball will be foreign to them. They don't have the ball players to manage the ball and move teams around. They are dangerous at launching it long on the turnover and isolating a big lad with a couple of nippy wide players.

We should go back to 433 for for this.

We should definitely play 4 at the back vs their 3, but be careful not to push both FBs on.

I'd play the 3 in CM to compete with their two, and play 3 forwards, just make sure the wide ones will track back. They're beatable, they lost a lot of games before going on this run. Let them have the ball, get in shape and look to break with the ball over the top, or players like Bolasie and Tav driving forward. Once you get beyond their wide midfielders then you'll get Bolasie and Kebano going at some big heavy CBs, and I'd fancy our lads to win that.
 
Simply red said:
They have built a team well , using data ? Is that wrong ?
It is how the world works , no different in football .
You have to move with the times , going to a game and seeing a great performance , or , a bad performance can't be the final judgement .
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Very quickly the youth coaches will suss how you get your stats ‘up’ so that all the players are showing what they need to in terms of stats.

The best stats are ..l
forward players - goals and assists.
defenders - goals conceded.
goalkeepers - clean sheets.
 
LowMoorBoro said:
Everywhere I’ve seen says he’s on loan until the end of the season?
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www.mlssoccer.com

Daryl Dike scores brace for Barnsley in 3-1 win over Wycombe Wanderers

Daryl Dike continues to make the most of his time on loan at Championship side Barnsley, scoring twice in his team's 3-1 win over Wycombe Wanderers. The first came in the 49th minute, doubling Barnsley's advantage. The play started on a corner, with the ball being cleared out of the box but not far
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"Dike's loan will end at the end of Barnsley's 2020-21 season, and Orlando expect him back when the loan is over. It does not mean the player is not attracting suitors in Europe — the BBC reported last week that Orlando rejected a $10 million offer from a top six Premier League club."
 
I think Barnsley have peaked at the right time. From being bottom at the end of the year and now they have such momentum. They are on a roll. Winning breeds confidence and they have that in abundance. They have got to be a good shot for the play offs at least? There's always one team that defies the odds and this year it appears to be Barnsley. Good luck to them I say. An unfashionable little club from Yorkshire making the pundits eat their words. UTB.
 
Tryasize10 said:
It might also be rescinded if the ref was like the ones we have become too familiar with this season 😂😂
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It's a softer red card than McNair's. If his was overturned then I reckon this will be which is a shame as would be good for them to be without him for three games
 
Train Guy said:
What have they got that we don't. A striker ? A mid field ? A keeper ? A manager ? Whatever it is I hope we get it next season. Good luck to them.
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They play hoofball which is something they're 'good' at the times. But they were awful other week when we played them and their player Dike is a cheat. Glad Dike is going back to America 21st April.

You shouldn't be worried about them anyway. You'll understand why once you watch your game against them over the Easter.
 
anth25 said:
It's a softer red card than McNair's. If his was overturned then I reckon this will be which is a shame as would be good for them to be without him for three games
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There is no chance that one gets overturned, it was two footed, directly at the player, both feet off the ground, it's a textbook red. McNair's was 1 footed and not directly at the player.
 
BoroMart said:
There is no chance that one gets overturned, it was two footed, directly at the player, both feet off the ground, it's a textbook red. McNair's was 1 footed and not directly at the player.
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But he doesn't jump in at speed. It's from a standing start. I'll admit that I don't know the exact wording of the rules but to me that isn't a dangerous tackle that is putting his opponent in danger. Just a tough 50/50 tackle.
 
anth25 said:
But he doesn't jump in at speed. It's from a standing start. I'll admit that I don't know the exact wording of the rules but to me that isn't a dangerous tackle that is putting his opponent in danger. Just a tough 50/50 tackle.
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The wording of the law doesn't state anything about two footed or off the ground. But the implementation of the law is that if you have both feet of the ground you no longer have control of your actions, therefore if you are moving towards an opponent it's endangering the opponent. He could very easily have broken the other lads foot with that type of tackle even though it was from a standing start. It's a big no no
 
Here you go:

www.theguardian.com

Low cost, high pressing: how Barnsley took the Championship by storm

Data-driven club were nearly relegated last season but the young team are unbeaten in 10 and in a play-off position now. How have they done it?
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In essence, a plan which they stick to, a clear vision of where they want to be and how they'll get there. It's no coincidence (imo) that clubs like Barnsley and Brentford with a strategic model are reaping the rewards on the pitch. Even if they don't go up this season no one can deny their approach is working.
 
Zoophonic said:
“If we look at a player who is extremely talented, and his goals and assists are through the roof but he is not able to sustain an element of pressing and defending high up the field for 90 minutes, that is a red flag for us,” says Murphy. “There are lots of clubs that use data and have brought in analysts to push in this direction ... but at Barnsley it’s the principle, it’s the root of what we are doing. There are clubs that say, ‘We need to bring it in as an ingredient’ but here it is the bedrock. Like Brentford in a way and Red Bull on a global scale, data is the first thing that wipes out the noise for us.”
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I think that's a really interesting comment.

I've long argue that goals/game is a bad measure of quality when signing strikers; he seems to be saying other stats are more important. I think that a key point of the Moneyball approach. It's more apparent in the book than in the film, but Billy Beane and co were not the first to use data-driven approaches: most teams looked at player stats at the time. What they did that was different was identify which stats were important and actually made a difference to results. It sounds like that's what we're seeing at Barnsley.
 
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