{"id":1486,"date":"2026-05-28T19:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:27:07","slug":"effective-playing-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1486","title":{"rendered":"effective playing time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">One of the great premises that marks the <strong>UEFA<\/strong> and what he sometimes boasts about is that in football matches <strong>Champions<\/strong> much more is played than in the national leagues, including the <strong>Premier<\/strong> and above all the League, something he complained about at the time <strong>Ancelotti at Real Madrid<\/strong>. In the grand final in Budapest, two very different styles face each other in this sense: <strong>Luis Enrique<\/strong> wants more effective playing time, <strong>Arteta <\/strong>not so much, with the logical nuances that mark the result throughout the match. <\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\"><strong>The truth is that Arsenal are masters at setting the pace of the match thanks to interruptions, <\/strong>especially in the time he dedicates to initiating set pieces, be they corners or fouls. PSG, however, seeks the opposite, to increase effective play, that is, having the ball in play most of the time. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"ue-c-article__media ue-c-article__media--video  video-player\"><figcaption class=\"ue-c-article__media-caption\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-description\">Luis Enrique: &#8220;Arteta has changed Arsenal&#8217;s mentality, they are undoubtedly the best team in Europe without the ball&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The numbers don&#8217;t lie. Arsenal has managed to win the Premier League and it is not exactly the team that has the most effective play according to Opta data. <strong>Manchester City leads the standings, with the ball in play during 58.99% of their matches, followed by Everton (57.09%) and Nottingham Forest (56.42%). The champion reaches 55.51%, slightly above the average of 55.28%.<\/strong> The three teams with the lowest percentages are Tottenham Hotspur (53.24%), Newcastle United (53.02%) and Bournemouth (52.99%). <strong>In the Champions League, Arsenal is 30th in effective play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">The longest corner in Europe and the Premier<\/h2>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\"><strong>Arsenal is the Premier League team that takes the longest to take a corner, 44 seconds.<\/strong> Among the 16 teams classified for the Champions League round of 16, they are also at the top of the table. It is 47.8 seconds and Tottenham second with 42.3. At the bottom of the table is PSG, third from last, with 29.8 seconds.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Luis Enrique and Arteta know each other very well. The Asturian said that Arsenal is the best team in Europe without the ball. And if the Gunners are able to get ahead on the scoreboard, they are masters at managing the result. <strong>The latest example was Atl\u00e9tico, who found themselves unable to tie Saka&#8217;s goal in the second leg just before half-time.<\/strong>. Beyond the complaint about the refereeing, the red and whites ended up stuck due to the excellent defense and interruptions of the English.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">Masters in tactical fouls<\/h2>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Arsenal is among the three Champions League teams that commit the most fouls after losing. That also subtracts effective play. Last March, <strong>The Athletic<\/strong> He brought out a revealing piece of information. In the victory against Brighton, Arteta&#8217;s team had spent 30 minutes putting the ball into play. <strong>More than ever, Arsenal will try to use their weapons to nullify the best team in transitions, a PSG that overwhelmed Inter last season with dominance in all facets of the game. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great premises that marks the UEFA and what he sometimes boasts about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}