Technical analysis of the goals scored in the Turkish super league

The purpose of this study is to determine with which types of attack the goal component that determines the winner of the match is composed and how the goals effect the result with analyses by technically analyzing the goals scored in 2016-17 Turkish Football Super League. The samples of this research were composed of 18 soccer teams that competed in the Turkey Football Super League while 306 matches and 828 goals in this match in 2016-2017 season were analyzed. When analyzing 828 goals, attack forms, attack directions, hit areas, stroke techniques, number of touching players, time distribution of goals, and first goals scored in the matches affected the match results were analyzed. A statistically significant positive correlation was found between the first goal and finishing the match as the winner (p <0.001) in the analyses that were made. The champion team won 23 of the 26 matches (88.5% win rate) where they scored the first goal while they did not win any of the 6 matches (the win rate of 0%) where they conceded the first goal. The win rate when the teams at top three rank scored the first goal was 83.1% (p <0.001) while that of the teams in the last three rank when they scored the first goal was 63.3% (p <0.001). In addition, as a result of the frequency distributions 35.9% of the goals scored were consisted of organized offenses, 57.7% of central offensives, 86.2% from within penalty area, 86.6% from foot attacks and 56.5% was formed by single contact (stroke). 23.7% of goals were scored between 75-90 minutes. When champion team goals were examined, 41.1% of the goals scored consisted of organizing offenses, 61.5% of central offenses and 82.7% from penalty area. As a result, it can be argued that the development of tactics for scoring the first goal is important in order to win the match because it is seen that the first goal affected the result of the match