The resumption of the championship after the Christmas break immediately offers a challenge with a high technical rate, pitting Atalanta and Sassuolo, among the most spectacular teams in Serie A. In addition to the good game, the two teams make physicality an important prerogative, as their Physical Efficiency tells us: 91.5% the Bergamo one, 91.3% the neroverde. Percentages justified by some elements in particular, capable of exceeding the threshold of European Top Players (95%): Boga and Rogerio for Sassuolo, the advanced department and the outsiders for the Nerazzurri. In general, we are talking about two teams accustomed to covering an average of 110 km, of which almost 30 at high intensity, which will certainly have benefited from the break in this respect. Atalanta and Sassuolo are also almost overlapping due to the amount of opportunities created (over 30 per game), although the boys of De Zerbi are more tending to 1 against 1. In fact, the green-and-blacks actually bet the direct opponent in 60% of cases, jumping him at least 10 times, while the Bergamo-borns try to dribble 40% of the occasions, completing it only 4 times on average . In the last round of the championship, the quality of the Atalantino game suffered a slight decline, with the men of Gasperini managed to complete only 6 difficult passages, failing even 5 of medium-low difficulty. A figure, however, that smiles at Sassuolo, with 25 attempts at high difficulty coefficient of which 18 were successful.
Another challenge to follow will be that between Filippo Inzaghi and his Rossoneri past, where Benevento, which closed the year in growth, settling on an EIT of 89-90%, will host the most efficient AC Milan in recent years (EIT> 92%). Although Samnites and Rossoneri are two very physical formations (Physical Efficiency 89.2% vs 92.3%), in the match there will certainly be no lack of pace of play. with AC Milan used to travel more distance than Campania both above 15 km / h (+ 8%) and above 25 km / h (+ 13%), while the Giallorossi develop more accelerations at both high and very high intensity (respectively + 7% and + 20%). The above indices are mainly attributable to the side lanes, where however the duel with very high physical efficiency between Hernandez (suspended) and Letizia will be missing. The predictions speak of a Milan favorite and that will play the game (IEF + 3.8%, K-Solution + 3.5%, 1vs1 offensive + 4.2%, Offensive aggression + 5%), even if the “Witches” they have had an increasing performance in the last period, in particular in the pre-Christmas round, where Pippo Inzaghi’s team was slightly superior to Milan in pressing (90,3% vs 90,1%).
There is a lot of anticipation around Juventus-Udinese, with Pirlo’s boys called for a quick redemption after the thud in the last round against Fiorentina. If in terms of Technical Efficiency we have a superior Juve (91.5% vs 87.1%), the two teams are not dissimilar on the volume of play, dedicated to reasoning with a not excellent pace. In fact, on the last day, both covered only 106 km, of which 26 were high intensity and 2.8 were sprints. Among the Friulians, the change of pace is entrusted to De Paul and Pussetto, stable on very high Serie A standards (IET and IEF 94%), but nevertheless returning from poor performances in the last match, in which the first did not go beyond 84% of K-Solution and the second stopped at 88% of K-Movement. Juventus will aim first of all to overturn the performance put in place against the “Viola” in the last exit, where they managed to complete only 6 passes with a high coefficient of difficulty, even 25% of those at medium-low difficulty are wrong. The “Old Lady” will likely still rely on 1v1 (almost 30 per game), thanks also to a newfound Church, able to skip the man 6 times in the last championship match.
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