TACTIC DEVELOPMENT OF LUKA MODRIC

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ORIGINAL SPANISH ARTICLE

http://futbolisticametrica.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-evolucion-tactica-de-luka-modric.html

SUDDENLY A STRANGER

For the general public Luka Modric began to be known following the Euro2008 when the eyes of the fans were going after a small dynamic and talented player that commentators drew out the nickname by which was known "the Balkan Cruyff". This nickname rested more on the sharp features aguileños of the player than in any other aspect of his game although Croatian shared with the great Johann insert position, although not with both goal.

Specialists the footballer had been preceded by his reputation for player action and generator of context that had played in previous years in UEFA and Champions League. His role in two European competitions was unobtrusive, of the same order as his team Dinamo Zagreb.
Precisely the two seasons prior to the euro are these figures with his team in the domestic Championship which glimpsed the participation of a key, highly prolific player in mark and attend. The Dynamo won with authority those years the Croatian League.

SEASON	GAMES	GOALS	ASSISTS	GOL+ASIST GAME
2006-07	36	6	10	0.44
2007-08	35	16	12	0.80

In the UEFA European Championship that his selection fell eliminated in a bizarre overtime against Turkey, Luka played in 3 games, scoring 1 goal and 1 assistance, and the player which drew most attention was the Russian Arshavin.

The following season Modric was one of the signings that Juande Ramos sought to shore up its ambitious but unsuccessful project in Tottenham, who signed him in April 2008, prior to compete in the UEFA European Championship.

SEASON 2008-09

The following images summarize somehow its tactical performance his first year with the Spurs. We have taken as an example, here and in the following seasons, the number of times that Luka with the ball in 4 games against the champion of the Premier, the last classified, joined a team of medium to high (on the 7th) area and another of the medium-low (around 14%) area.

At first Tottenham tried place as offensive and part creative of a double pivot, the style of the role of Renato or Maresca had been met in Seville, but the lack of physical scale was criticized by the British media to undermine the confidence of the player, who was shifted forward or towards the band.

Here is a series of major averages per game.

% Matches played	89.5
Goals+Asistencias	0.26
Shots+Fouls Suffered	3.47
Goals teammates	1.05
Assists teammates	0.63
Average fouls conceded about fouls suffered	0.50
% Direct participation in Goals of the team	23.4
Turnovers	89.8

We can see that by delaying its position its productive performance declined, from being a regular scorer/asistidor to be decisive sporadically. Despite the fact that his role was in the possession of the ball, he began to assume a defensive role more accentuated as reflects that for every two suffered faults he was one. His average of overflow (sum of suffered fouls and shots) was modest to the large number of balls they were on their feet. That was a difficult season where costumes rebelled against the sacrifices of diet that Juande imposed, so most of the League was Harry Rednapp who commanded the London club. So much instability and the lack of success in the adaptation of an erratic Modric had reflected in the low productivity of co-workers.

2009-2010 SEASON

This was the first full season of Rednapp at Spurs, not of Luka, who suffered a fractured fibula at the beginning of season which saw the loss of nearly half of the parties. As we can see heat maps, Modric was dismissed from the central axis of the midfield, playing more than flying inside, sometimes right-winger, drawing more on his complete repertoire technical and tactical.

This was motivated by the injury without him Harry Rednapp had to set up a centre of the working field consisting of Wilson Palacios and Jermaine Jenas, leaving the work of creation in his promising band players. Overflow of Modric average rose significantly, keeping their contribution in goals and assists at the individual level while his team was necessarily less dependent on him. Also notes that positional displacement in a reduction in the ratio of misconduct. Advancing or advance, Modric came into contact with the ball 20% less.

% Matches played	57.9
Goals+Asistencias	0.27
Shots+Fouls Suffered	4.23
Goals teammates	1.68
Assists partners	1.18
Share most fouls conceded about fouls suffered	0.43
Direct participation in Goals of the team	15.7
Balls headdresses	71.5

The team of it uncovered ahead of more ambitious as Liverpool or Manchester City projects and qualify for the continental competition.

SEASON 2010-11

Thanks to the tactical changes in his extreme youth and signing Rafael van der Vaart, Modric could return to the position of creative todocampista which he imagined Juande Ramos. With more capacity to take the lead, the team needed to shelter less back and Rednapp ran many risks playing many games with only midfielder of containment. Efforts spread between Premier and Champions, Tottenham went down positions in the League but the game gained in strength and dominance.

% Matches played	84.2
Goles+Asistencias	0.16
Sustained Disparos+Faltas	3.13
Goals partners	1.32
Assists partners	0.82
Share most fouls conceded about fouls suffered	0.35
Direct participation in Goals of the team	11.9
Balls headdresses	88.5

The analysis of their figures follows the adoption of this new role which overflows, assists and write less, but which again increases their contact with the ball, recovering your first year's figures. Play well trim by a defensive specialist behind him eased defensive load as well reflecting the decrease in the ratio of misconduct.

His major role as an organizer put the eyes of the Chelsea about it, to provide EUR 45 million at the last minute of the summer market, to the extent that the player sparked a small Conatus of rebellion. In this football in 2011, in which large teams of the continent again toward small and creative players who are able to manage efficiently the flow of ball between defence and the line of 3/4, Luka has become a coveted piece.

2011-12 SEASON

This season started with such tense negotiations, but closed the summer market Modric showed its commitment to the project of Rednapp that has shaped the entire team around him. Given the high amount offered by him, it is assumed that the main reason why the English manager refused to negotiate has been the impossibility of finding an equivalent immediate substitute.

Heat maps show us as in different encounters Modric has begun to address widening the field of play areas while being the reference in the central zone. The signing as a Squire to a player of higher technical quality and experienced as Scott Parker, and a return to a 4-4-2, has forced Modric to again develop a greater capacity for work as can be seen in the increase in the ratio of misconduct.

% Matches played	84.5
Goles+Asistencias	0.27
Sustained Disparos+Faltas	4.00
Goals partners	2.15
Assists partners	1.46
Share most fouls conceded about fouls suffered	0.53
Direct participation in Goals of the team	12.7
Balls headdresses	90.5

Besides his numbers show that still is in contact with the ball more often than last year. Current season Modric, assists, scored or overflows in its first two years, but press and manages the ball with the profusion of last season's as a result of which we have the team scores goals more easily and players playing ahead of him swap passes goal levels as never before in recent seasons: To speak quickly, the team plays better, more committed and incisive.

Despite defeats swollen face Manchester teams, Tottenham has managed to win or tie against direct rivals, always leading the plot of gunfire and has been generally solid and secure against inferior opponents. It is not therefore coincidence or luck that one third of the disputed League team is occupying posts direct access to the Champions League.

FUTURE

Despite the fact that it already has 26 years, Modric is, at the level of experience and training comparatively less expert than other players of his age. He did not abandon the weak Croatian League until the age of 23 and has not even played 100 complete games in the Premiership, therefore it is no wonder that continue progress in the development of the dual role of offensive todocampista double pivot and llegador and creative midfielder. Consecrated by history midfielders Xavi, Lampard or Pirlo, not started to offer the best of his game until they not exceeded 200 parties on the first line, so if we take into account that Luka will probably reach that figure a couple of years before the commencement of its physical decline is expected within five years we have Croatian footballer considered to be one of the best midfielders of his time.