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In the last decades, observational methodology has been widely used in scientific research
in sport, namely in the study of team games like handball, due to its characteristics.
Handball, in addition to being a collective, complex, dynamic, and interactive sport, has
its own characteristics and demands a performance analysis that takes into account the
context and interaction between different factors and variables. The present study analyzes
how the different numerical relations in an attack can change the center back’s patterns
of tactical behavior. Observational methodology and a mixed ad hoc instrument combining
field format and category systems appropriately validated by experts were used. Data were
taken from 20 matches involving teams classified in the first four places in the 2017 Men’s
World Championship. These were recorded from TV broadcasts, and the total number of
offensive sequences carried out in an organized attack game method (n = 990) was
analyzed. In each of the sequences carried out in an organized attack, the numerical relation
in attack or defense was observed and recorded. In addition to this, it was verified whether
the attacking team maintained or replaced the goalkeeper by a field player in the attack.
Both sequential analysis techniques with lags, prospective, and retrospective, as well as
polar coordinate analysis, were used. Results have shown that there are different behavioral
patterns of the center back in the three different situations of numerical relation. Another
element that stood out was that in numerical equality with the defense and no goalkeeper
at the goal, the center back opted for greater security and less risk of loss of the ball.
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Keywords
Handball Observational methodology Center back Attack Patterns of play . Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão
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Citation
Prudente JN, Cardoso AR, Rodrigues AJ and Sousa DF (2019) Analysis of the Influence of the Numerical Relation in Handball During an Organized Attack, Specifically the Tactical Behavior of the Center Back. Front. Psychol. 10:2451. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02451
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Frontiers Media SA