Muijsken, I. (2015) Winning Interactions; Successful versus Unsuccessful Goal Scoring Opportunities in International-Level Field Hockey Matches. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
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The aim of this study was to examine the differences between successful and unsuccessful circle entries (CE), by looking at (i) the temporal and spatial features of CE’s using two centroids per team, and (ii) the relationships between the centroids preceding CE’s. A CE was defined as “the moment the ball enters the defending team’s circle via passing or dragging actions of the attacking team”. The variables included this study were: number of players in each centroid, intra-team distance, and inter-team distance. Due to the characteristics of the matches under study, it was chosen to do a case-study of the Australian female team. The matches were part of the 2012 Hockey Champions Challenge; Australia played 6 matches in 9 days. The results showed no significant differences in the variables between successful and unsuccessful short CE’s (p > 0.157). For medium CE’s variability was significantly higher for the intra-team distance of the defending team (p = 0.037). The long CE’s had multiple significantly different variables for the attacking team; number of players in the defending (p = 0.049), and attacking (p = 0.011) centroid, and intra-team distance (0.038). The difference between the starting positions of the attacking centroid and the centroid defending the goal under attack during successful CE’s (mean = 0.986 meters) was significantly smaller than at the beginning of unsuccessful CE’s (mean = 3.005 meters); p = 0.023. It can be concluded that for Australia, the success of long duration CE’s relied on less variability in the centroid variables; for these attacks, stability within the team could lead to more successful goal scoring opportunities. Additionally, CE’s starting with the Australian attacking centroid closer to the defending team’s defending centroid were more successful, supporting the common use of the ‘press’ during hockey matches.
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Lemmink, K.A.P.M. and Coutts, A.J. and Morgan, S. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Apr 2022 12:51 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Apr 2022 12:52 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3099 |
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