Croatia's Tactical Analysis at Euro 2016

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CROATIA
FRANCE EURO 2016
GROUP STAGE
22/06/2016

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WWW.VIDEOBSERVER.COMANALYSIS BY MAURO SARAIVA
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12.06.2016 Squad
23 Danijel Subašić
03 Ivan Strinić
05 Vedran Ćorluka
11 Darijo Srna
21 Domagoj Vida
10 Luka Modrić
14 Milan Badelj
4 Ivan Perišić
7 Ivan Rakitić
14 Marcelo Brozović
17 Mario Mandžukić
USUAL LINE UP OTHER MAIN OPTIONS
02 Šime Vrsaljko
06 Tin Jedvaj
08 Mateo Kovačić
09 Andrej Kramarić
13 Gordon Schildenfeld
15 Marko Rog
20 Marko Pjaca
22 Duje Čop
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Tactical SystemCROATIA – Stage Group

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vs Turkey
INITIAL SYSTEM 1-4-2-3-1
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Luka Modrić
Center Midfielder
MVP

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vs Czech Republic
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Luka Modrić
Center Midfielder
MVP

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vs Spain
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Ivan Perišić
Left Winger
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1st Phase of Construction
Dynamics
Croatia opts to start the offensive process with 2 players – the
center backs.
The midfielders support with a passing line.
Modric and Badelj are more of 1 touch player and progress with
that intention. If Kovacic is called, he opts to conduct more often
than pass the ball.
The full bakcs play wide open, specially the captain Srna.
This gives Croatia more width, to open the defense and create
more space for Modric or Rakitic to show in the passing lines and
create more variaty.
If the pressure is high, the ball is often in Corluka who plays
direcly to the wings for Perisic or Brozovic.
Combinations: Center back with Midfielders
Center back with Wingers

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1st Phase of Construction – 1st Pass Statistics
Dynamics
When Croatia recovers the ball, usually plays it short.
They began two ways – ball in the middle to star their offensive
process, or ball directly in the wing, and explore the counter
attack.
The stats shows that they play more often forwars than
backwards when they conquer the ball.

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2nd Phase of Construction
Dynamics
Rakitic as a main role here. He can go free, searchong for the
spaces between the defense and create the dynamic to go
further in the field.
Usually he opts to conquer space with conduction, but varies a lot
his game.
Modric supports more this stage than Badelj, who’s concerned
with the balance if they lost the ball.
The wingers can make 2 moves. First they can play closer to the
line giving width and exploring the ball on the space upfront. Or
they can play inside, opening space for Srna and Strinic.
Mandzukic sometimes shows up in the line creating space for
Rakitic and Modric to be closer to the area – both have great long
distance shoot.
Combinations: Midfielders with wingers
Midfielders with full backs
Center midfielders with offensive midfielder

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Goal Creation
Dynamics
With a big pace all the game, Croatia put some pressure on the
finishing area.
They opt for the cross – Perisic and Srna are both specialists in
this field, and the advantage of Mandzukic who is a great header.
The pressure on the second ball with Modric-Rakitic-Badelj
getting more upfront than the average team creates an extra of
danger in the last third of the field.
When they search the middle with Rakitic, the winger play wide
open, and create interior movements to the goal, exploring the
ball on the back of the defense.
Combinations: Wingers with Forwards
Wingers with Midfielders
Midfielders wit Forward

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Goal Creation - Cross Statistics
Dynamics
Although they play often from both sides, it’s on the right, with
Srna that emerges more crosses to the area.
Srna variates with crosses to the first post and the back of the
defense.

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Goal Creation - Statistics
Dynamics
As we can see, they create a lot of shooting opportunities outside
the box. This is due to the second balls and the late crosses.
They’re much more effective inside the box though, result of
Mandzukic and Perisic mostly.

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Negative Offensive Statistics
Dynamics
When they opt for direct play, they loose effieciency as expected.
This resulted in a big number of lost balls in their own midfield
that can be dangerous if the opponent is uses a counter attack
style of play.
The higher number against Spain is recognisable with the
intention of putting the ball on the back of the full backs who play
with a lot of depth.

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Offensive Transition
Dynamics
In this particular momment, Croatia has two ways of solving it.
They can progress with condution, trying to solve the problem
individually, or the use short pass combinations and variaty the
side of the ball quickly.
When they face this type of situation, Rakitic and Perisic are the
ones to pressure. They’re the ones the team is looking for in the
counter attack.

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Set Play – Indirect Free Kick
Dynamics
Takers: Rakitic is the man who plays the Indirect Free Kick,
although Modric and Srna can do it also.
Targets: Vida, Corluka and Mandzukic
Area: Penalty zone.

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Set Play – Corner
Dynamics
Srna takes the corners from both sides.
Targets: Corluka, Mandzukic and Vida
Area: First bar and the back of the defense

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Defensive System
Dynamics
They change a bit in the defensive process.
Rakitic goes along with Mandzukic for the first pressure zone,
trying to close the lines for the oppponents center backs.
At the same time Brozovic and Perisic close the space along with
Modric and Badelj creating a 1-4-4-2 system that can change
when the opponent gets inside their lines.
The defensive line stays together and the dynamic is low.
The midfielders follow the attackers even if they change position
with a teammate, this means that they’re always compensating
movements from each other.
Mandzukic doesn’t go behond the opponents center backs,
putting pressure for the counter attack.
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Defensive System – Forward
Dynamics
Don’t try to block the man with the ball, closing the passing lines
until they got in the pressure zone they want to.
Rakitic does this perfectly, sufocating the opponent when they get
on one side.
Mandzukic controls the ball trajectory to close passing lines,
getting forward if the ball gets inside the pressure zone or
between Croatia’s lines.

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Defensive Transition – Midfield
Dynamics
The two center midfielders play in line with each other defining
the space between them and the defense – usually they have the
lines close to each other making it hard to create space in the
middle.
The wingers support this movements, helping closing the space
in the pressure zone.
Rakitic can go back and help in the center to create numeric
advantage. It’s really important for them this habilty of Rakitic to
play longside with Mandzukic, but continue to help when the
opponent gets closer to the goal.

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Defensive System – Defense
Dynamics
The defense sticks really close not creating space between then
that can be explored by the attackers.
When the ball is on the line, the winger of the opposite side,
closes the space inside, and the full back of the same side,
closes the space behond the midfield, keepin their defense real
tight and with the hability to be in advantage all the time.
The space to explore agains Croatia is the space in the back of
the center midfielders. The wingers react when the ball gets to
the opposite side, not when it’s on the middle. That’s the space
that can unbalance them.

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Defensive Statistics – Crosses Against
Dynamics
They don’t conceed a lot of crosses, due to the facts that are
explained above. Their player concentration is very effective.
If there’s space for the cross, the opponent should explore the
first post, due to the space between the full back on the ball and
the center back covering him.

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Defensive Statistics
Dynamics
As we can see, it’s ouside the box that you can surprise Croatia.
The space in the middle can be unbalanced and be taking to
create danger for Subasic.

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Defensive Statistics – Recovered Ball
Dynamics
As Croatia prefers to make a high pressure, they try to take the
ball up in the field closer to the goal. The defensive transition is
effective as we can see the recover the ball really high on the
pitch.
The average of balls recovered in this transition is big, meaning
they can create a lot of moments with the opponent’s defense
unbalanced.

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Defensive Statistics - Discipline
Dynamics
The definition of the pressure zone can be identified also by the
heat map that shows us were the team is more agressive. The
right side with Brozovic and Srna (the one who crosses more on
the team, due also to the fact that they put more pressure here),
shows us they like to bring the opponets to this side and then
suffocate the space with the bal.

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