Iniesta Messi & Fabregas Celebrate Player Influence Shot Chart Passing Chart

Last night FC Barcelona moved passed AC Milan and into their 5th consecutive Champions League semifinals.

Barcelona was awarded 2 penalties, which were cooly dispatched by Lionel Messi, with a third goal being added by Andres Iniesta.

Despite the insistance of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Milan wasn’t cheated by the refs.  As the graphical analysis above shows, they were thoroughly outplayed.  

Milan’s Clarence Seedorf said the ref got the second penalty decision wrong, but acknowledged that Barcelona was the best side on the night.  Classy comments from a classy player; probably why he got a classy ovation from the away fans when he was substituted in the second half.

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It’s one thing to say one soccer team passed the ball 860 times during a 90 minute game.  It’s quite another to see those successful passes and the failed attempts all together on a field. Without knowing anything about soccer you can tell immediately that one team passed the ball a whole lot more than the other team.  Usually if you have the ball, you have a better chance of scoring, and if you score you win.   As you could probably guess from the picture, Barcelona won the game (3-1).  Images like these give us a great snapshot of a whole lot of information at once.  It looks good, and it makes an impression.  *Thanks to fourfourtwo.com and their Statzone app for this.

It’s one thing to say one soccer team passed the ball 860 times during a 90 minute game.  It’s quite another to see those successful passes and the failed attempts all together on a field.

Without knowing anything about soccer you can tell immediately that one team passed the ball a whole lot more than the other team.  Usually if you have the ball, you have a better chance of scoring, and if you score you win.  

As you could probably guess from the picture, Barcelona won the game (3-1).  Images like these give us a great snapshot of a whole lot of information at once.  It looks good, and it makes an impression. 

*Thanks to fourfourtwo.com and their Statzone app for this.

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