Amr Obaid (Cairo)
Sharjah maintained its top spot in the league table with a “full mark,” extraordinary “defensive solidity,” and “remarkable” offensive power, confirming that it is on the right track this season, under the leadership of the “veteran” Elario Cosmin, especially since he returned to the “top of our league.” After a long absence of 589 days, that is, just over a year and 7 months, Sharjah has not succeeded in returning to first place since February 2023, as that was after the 16th round of the previous season’s edition, 2022-2023, except after the third round. From the current season.
57%
Since Kuzmin took over the technical management of the team, 3 years ago, the “tactical strategy” that was known about “The King” has changed since he was crowned with the 2018-2019 league title, as he relied at that time on minimal possession in exchange for pressure and a quick shift to attack, and the average percentage in his crowning season reached 46. %, compared to 47% in the following season, then 51% and 53%, respectively, before jumping to an average of 56% in the 2022-2023 season, then it became 57% in the current version, and perhaps the confrontation with “Pride of Abu Dhabi” in the last round provides the best evidence. Moreover, Sharjah maintained its technical style by possessing the ball at a rate of 53%, compared to 47% for its competitor, who is known for his tendency to control and possess.
+ 10
A quick comparison between the “King’s” general situation this season and the previous one shows an increase in offensive and defensive power at the same time, with the current largest scoring difference among all teams, +10, as the team has so far scored an average of 2.75 goals/match, compared to 2/match in the previous season. At the end of the last edition, which witnessed conceding 1.54 goals/match compared to only 0.25 this season, “The King” shows a clear balance in the ways he scores goals, after he used his offensive depth to score 6 goals, at a rate of 54.5%, compared to 5 across both sides, at a rate of 45.5%.
91%
A major technical difference has colored the “King’s” offensive performance since the beginning of the current season, compared to 2023-2024, because he succeeded in reaching his opponents’ net 10 times through “moving attacks”, at a rate of approximately 91%, in exchange for a single goal from a penalty kick, while the situation was This is different from the previous season, after it relied on fixed kicks to score approximately a quarter of its goals, 24.5%, compared to 75.5% for “action” goals. Sharjah relied heavily on corner kicks at that time, as it produced 54% of the goals in those games.
88%
“The King” ranks second in the list of the most accurate teams in passing the ball, with a success rate of 88.42%, which the team did not show in the past two seasons, as it was not in the “Top 5” list during them in terms of passing accuracy, and a percentage of 82.8% placed it in the It ranked sixth in the 2022-2023 season, while it was “seventh” in 2023-2024 with a rate of 83.6%, and this was reflected in the method of exploiting passes to score goals, as it appears very balanced this season, between 4 goals scored on cross balls, air or ground, versus The same number for short passes and through balls, while there was greater reliance on crosses and long balls last season.
50%
The tactical development and technical flexibility of “The King” with Kuzmin is more evident through the quality of the attacks, which resulted in him scoring “movement” goals in the current season, as he used “speed” to score 50% of them, with 4 goals from a quick organized attack and one goal from A counterattack, compared to 4 for calm-paced organized attacks and one goal from high pressure, in a completely different picture from last season’s harvest, which ended by scoring 70% of the goals through fast attack and counterattacks, compared to 30% for the goals of slow-paced organized attacks and advanced pressure.
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