Intra- and inter-group coordination patterns reveal collective behaviors of football players near the scoring zone

Ricardo Duarte ,Duarte Araújo, Luís Freire, Hugo Folgado, Orlando Fernandes, Keith Davids.


...These findings might suggest the importance of increasing the surface area to the attacking sub-groups in order to destabilize the opposing team and to create shooting opportunities (Gréhaigne et al., 1997), but only immediately before the moment of the assisted pass (Duarte, R. et al., 2012).