Gegenpress058

FIFA World Cup 2022

The press arrives. The ball usually does not.

Eight seconds after a live loss. Of 4,213 losses, 51.3% drew a pressure. 5.2% were won back inside the window, and 1.5% inside five seconds. Throw-ins, goal kicks, free kicks, and the other restarts are left out — 2,810 of them.

When the ball came back

217 regains inside eight seconds. 62 landed before five seconds, and 155 landed after. The bars from five onward are the ones a five-second rule would drop.

  1. 00
  2. 11
  3. 42
  4. 193
  5. 384
  6. 535
  7. 536
  8. 497

Each bar is a whole second after the loss. StatsBomb's own counterpress tag fires on 47.8% of the same losses, close to the 51.3% pressure rate.

The ranking is the high loss

A high loss is the ball given away in the opponent's third. The first column is regains divided by those losses only. Spain won back 10.4% of 77. Belgium (61), Ghana (60) and Serbia (58) won none back. A loss in a team's own third is on the team page. Winning that back is defending, and those counts are often under ten.

Ranked by regains after a high loss: the ball given away in the opponent's third. The count beside each rate is the number of those losses.
Spain10.4% 77 high7.9% 127 live2.6s 66.1% pressed127
United States8.3% 84 high6.2% 130 live2.4s 56.2% pressed130
Wales8.2% 61 high8.9% 101 live2.5s 49.5% pressed101
Netherlands7.7% 104 high6.1% 165 live2.5s 47.3% pressed165
Ecuador7.3% 55 high6.3% 95 live2.3s 60.0% pressed95
Costa Rica7.0% 57 high9.8% 112 live2.7s 46.4% pressed112
Croatia6.6% 152 high7.3% 259 live3.1s 51.4% pressed259
England6.5% 93 high5.4% 147 live2.4s 53.1% pressed147
Portugal6.5% 93 high6.0% 151 live2.9s 53.6% pressed151
Cameroon6.2% 81 high8.3% 121 live3.2s 51.2% pressed121
Denmark6.2% 65 high4.4% 90 live2.6s 37.8% pressed90
South Korea5.8% 86 high5.8% 121 live3.0s 55.4% pressed121
Uruguay5.5% 55 high4.1% 97 live3.4s 44.3% pressed97
Tunisia5.3% 57 high3.7% 108 live2.3s 50.9% pressed108
Japan5.1% 79 high5.1% 137 live2.5s 44.5% pressed137
Senegal5.0% 60 high6.9% 116 live2.4s 56.0% pressed116
Switzerland5.0% 80 high4.7% 150 live2.6s 48.7% pressed150
Argentina4.7% 106 high4.6% 194 live2.3s 59.3% pressed194
Brazil4.5% 112 high4.9% 162 live2.5s 44.4% pressed162
Canada3.4% 59 high5.2% 96 live2.4s 51.0% pressed96
Germany3.2% 62 high5.8% 103 live2.4s 49.5% pressed103
Morocco3.0% 132 high3.7% 245 live2.8s 54.3% pressed245
Qatar2.2% 45 high8.6% 105 live2.5s 55.2% pressed105
Saudi Arabia1.9% 52 high2.4% 85 live3.0s 55.3% pressed85
Iran1.8% 56 high2.8% 106 live3.5s 53.8% pressed106
Mexico1.7% 60 high2.5% 79 live2.2s 54.4% pressed79
France1.6% 128 high2.7% 225 live3.3s 51.6% pressed225
Australia1.4% 72 high2.9% 137 live2.2s 50.4% pressed137
Poland1.3% 76 high0.8% 125 live2.4s 44.8% pressed125
Belgium0.0% 61 high1.9% 103 live3.5s 47.6% pressed103
Ghana0.0% 60 high4.4% 114 live2.4s 50.9% pressed114
Serbia0.0% 58 high4.7% 107 live2.6s 41.1% pressed107