Quote Originally Posted by PricopGeorgeCătălin View Post
Actually is quite hard to know nowadays but before when we still had that possession penalizing rule you could clearly notice an improvement. There are way to many factors that can decide the final and to run a test by any of us I think is literally impossible as we do not really have the tools needed.

In big lines you can do some tests but a proper one you clearly can't. That's why for example I do not believe in Counter Formation or Tactics, I do believe they might work but is impossible for us to guess if it would work for us or not. Way, way, way, way to many factors at the middle.

One thing I noticed that is working is low pressing vs high pressing, my team usually perform much better with high pressing so I do assume yes we can influence the game all together.
I think he means that we don't have any influence during the game.
All are finished 3 min before the match starting.
That was always a myth, a scenario, a case.
Personally I made my own test a couple of years before (with a reserve team, for a whole season) and found out that we can affect (more or less) the gameplay in about 75-80% of our games.