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Watch: Most Pressed Player Schlager - a lot goes through the flanks
Xaver Schlager epitomises Wolfsburg s game. The 23-year-old Austria international often presses to win the ball back in the final third, thus ensuring favourable changes of possession and better chances. He has been the Most Pressed Player six times this season, but Oliver Glasner s midfield lynchpin is so strong that he can still break free from tricky situations and initiate his own attacks.
The soccer field is generally divided into three zones, tactically. The new Bundesliga Match Fact Attack Zones divides the final third into four vertical zones. Wolfsburg attack a lot from the wings, attempting many crosses. The most prolific recipient of these crossed is striker Wout Weghorst, who has had 13 shots on goal after a ball in from out wide, which is third only behind Eintracht Frankfurt s Andre Silva (17) and Bayern Munich s Robert Lewandowski (14).
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In Simon Rolfes, the Bundesliga and its partner AWS have an expert who knows the Bundesliga from A to Z. Bayer 04 Leverkusen s Sporting Director, Rolfes wore Die Werkself s colours 288 times between 2005 and 2015, and represented Germany on 26 occasions. Rolfes is the ideal man to write a weekly column for the Bundesliga Match Facts Zone on bundesliga.com, analysing current trends and giving unique insight on the Bundesliga Match Facts.
Here, Simon Rolfes introduces the new Bundesliga Match Fact Attacking Zones .
By Simon Rolfes
Data is gaining an increasingly important role in football. That has long since been the case for the clubs, but I am noticing more and more how fans are indulging in innovative real-time statistics to fuel their own discussions about football, even on a private level. This is why I am particularly pleased that the DFL and AWS continue to develop new Match Facts together. One of these is the Attacking Zones , which will now become a key fe