Temporary incidence of gols in the World Cup of 2018

Abstract

Football is a sport characterized by continuous and intermittent actions. Their matches have regular and predictable actions, however during a match the occurrence of unpredictable events can influence the final outcome of the game. Undoubtedly, the goal is the most important variable of a football game, being relevant the knowledge about its incidence throughout a game. The objective of the study was to analyze temporarily the incidence of goals in the world cup of 2018. For this it was realized an analysis of all the goals occurred in the 64 games of the competition, through the application 365 scores. The results show that most of the goals (N = 100) occurred in the second half of the matches, more specifically in the last period of play, between minutes 76 to 90 (N = 37). In this way it can be concluded that a difference was found in the temporal incidence of the goals in the 2018 world cup, inasmuch as there was a higher occurrence of goals in the second stage of the games, and in the final period of the game when compared to others. Thus, the technical committees of the teams must be attentive to this fact, seeking to carry out a planning that contemplates questions such as physical, technical, tactical and psychological preparation of the athletes, seeking to prepare them to maintain a level of attention and concentration even greater in this period of the games, since, the studies realized in respect have shown this tendency.