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What part did Davor Suker play in Arsenals mastery of Aston Villa?
Did his two goals make him the star of the game?
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SUKER (# 9 ARSENAL) PLAYER ANALYSIS
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"DYNAMIC SPINETM" in the world of soccer
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The diagram above is the Dynamic Spine of Suker # 9.
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A Dynamic Spine illustrates the general location where players were playing and the connections between that player and his teammates.
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Each player icon in Dynamic Spine represents the center of the zone where the player was covering based on actual ball touches.
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The thickness of the lines represent the frequency of ball passes between players, i.e., the thicker the line, the more passes between the players.
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please refer to the legend below the field itself
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"DYNAMIC SPINETM" Analysis
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The Dynamic Spine shows that Suker (#9) played mostly with Bergkamp (#10), Dixon (#2), and Winterburn (#3).
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It is interesting, however, that Suker connected more with the two outside fullbacks.
In the next section, we will get a visual presentation & breakdown of all of Davor Sukers passes.
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SUKER (# 9 ARSENAL) PLAYER PERFORMANCE
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Completed
13
Passes
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Lost
15
Passes
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Suker intiated the pass to his teammate
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Arsenal player received the ball from Suker
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Aston Villa player intercepted the pass from Suker
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Completed & Lost Passes Analysis
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The two charts above are detailed analyses of Sukers passes based on SoftSports revolutionary technology for tracking player and ball locations.
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The chart on the left shows where Suker completed his 13 passes while the chart on the right gives us the location of Sukers 15 lost passes.
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Although Suker scored 2 out of the 3 Goals ,he had a pass completion rate of 46% which was a bit lower percentage compared to our 1998 World Cup standard of 60%.
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PLAYER PERFORMANCE & ANALYSIS
SUKER # 9 (ARSENAL) - BOX SCORETM
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| ACTIVITIES
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PLAYER
PERFORMANCE
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WC98
STANDARD
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| GOALS SCORED
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2
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| # OF SHOTS TAKEN
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8
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| IMPACT PASSES / GOALS
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0
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| IMPACT PASSES / SHOTS
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0
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| TOTAL # OF PASSES
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28
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35
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| # OF COMPLETED PASSES
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13
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20
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| # OF LOST PASSES
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15
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15
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| COMPLETION RATE
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46%
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60%
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| # OF INTERCEPTIONS
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8
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5
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| # OF CORNERKICKS
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0
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| SOFTSPORT RANKING POINTS
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82
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OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSIS
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The data shows that Suker role in the match was that of a Goal Scorer.
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While Suker completed only 46% of his passes with none of them being impact passes. (An impact pass is any pass in a series of connecting passes that led to a shot or goal).
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Suker mainly did his damage against Aston Villa with his 2 goals on 8 shots on goal.
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All of his shots on goal came from close range inside the Villa box.
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SoftSport has created an objective performance ranking system where "ranking points" are computed for each player based on a players performance as measured against the performance standards established in ten offensive and defensive categories.
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The performance standards were developed from the SoftSport database of 1998 World Cup matches.
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Davor Suker had 82 SoftSport ranking points.
How does this score stack-up against the other Arsenal players?
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