Every build-up they start, followed third by third: the shape they build in from tracking, the side they go, where it is lost, and how it holds against a high, mid or low block, ranked against the rest of the league.
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Break down Club Brugge's build-up in open play: the shape they build in, the side they go, and where they lose the ball.
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Start third to outcome
1053 moments: the ribbons are counts, the columns are goals and xG
01 · Starts and ends
A build-up moment is a settled open-play possession of at least three passes, with no set piece in it. Club Brugge have 1053 in 40 matches, 26.3 a match against a league 22.4, second of 18. 403 settle in their own third, 504 in the middle third and 146 in the final third, and 109 end in a shot, for 15 goals.
The goals and the xG sit beside each ending, so you see at once which starting point pays. The 504 that settle in the middle third give 48 shots and 8.47 xG, against 35 shots and 5.55 from the own-third starts. That is where their possession becomes dangerous, and where your plan starts.
Every move between thirds
Percentages are of the visits to that third
02 · Third by third
Each time the ball is in a third, the report counts what happens next. From their own third Club Brugge move up on 89% of visits and lose it there on 4%. In the middle third 47% of visits go on to the final third and 36% drop back. In the final third 9% end in a shot and 51% are lost.
It is the picture a coach draws on the board: up, back, lost. The same moments are then split by the opponent's block and by the score. Against a low block, 67% are lost in the final third; against a high block, 44%. That tells you what sitting deep against them costs, and what it buys.
2 and 3 in the back line
One real tracked moment per shape, own goal at the bottom
03 · The shape they build in
With tracking, the report counts how many Club Brugge keep in the back line while the ball is in their own third, outside the box. They build with 3 most often, 38% of the tracked moments, and with 2 on 29%. Each card is one real moment, at the frame the line stood tightest, and the dashed line joins the players in it.
The report is open about the sample: tracking covers 21 of 403 own-third moments in this window, so these cards are a sketch to check, not a verdict. Every card names its match and minute, like Royal Antwerp on 24 April in the 64th, so your analyst can go straight to the moment.
Where the ball crosses into the next third
Every pass or carry from one third into the next, by side
04 · Left, centre or right
In their own third the ball is mostly in the centre, 51%. From there Club Brugge go wide: the ball leaves the own third mostly down the right, 37%, and enters the final third on the right 48% of the time, against 39% on the left. H. Vanaken plays it in most, 157 entries and 15% of them, then C. Mata with 124.
That is a flank and a name to build your block around. The pitch beside the bars marks all 2095 crossings into the next third, drawn in Club Brugge's attacking direction, so the pattern is there to see before anyone reads a percentage.
Own-third build-ups that never left the own third
17 opponents with at least 5 own-third moments, against how everyone else fared
05 · Who pressed best
Mechelen pressed Club Brugge best: 21% of own-third build-ups against them never left the own third, against 8% for Club Brugge over the season, and only 43% reached the final third. At the other end, against Oud-Heverlee Leuven 0% were lost early and 90% reached the final third.
The Everyone column is the check. Other clubs lost 13% against Mechelen, the league-wide figure, so Mechelen did not press everyone like this: they found something against this build-up. That is the press worth studying before you face them.
Reached the final third · vs RSC Anderlecht · 22 May · 91'
One stored position a second, played at match speed
06 · Moments in motion
The report ends on real own-third build-ups replayed from tracking: the most recent two that reached the final third and the most recent two lost inside the own third, from the first settled pass to fifteen seconds after. This one is against RSC Anderlecht on 22 May, in the 91st minute, and it got through.
Every number above comes back to moments like these. You see how the players actually stood and moved, at match speed, before any of it goes in front of the squad.
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