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I used to be a good soccer player, but I am a lousy analyst of the game, I think. I made fun of Jogi Löw before the 2014 championship predicting a German disaster, but the "Mannschaft" returned home from Brazil world champion.
I have always criticised Lionel Messi for running comfortably less than any other elite attackers, averaging just less than 5 miles per 90 minutes. But in this interesting article we are told that walking makes Messi more efficient and that means more dangerous to his opponents:
“Can we say Messi gets a lot of his space by not chasing the play? Yes, that’s precisely what our research shows.”
Though,
Messi never really walks; he prowls.
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