Igor Tudor Tactics At Hajduk Split 2019/2020 – Tactical Analysis

Following our analysis of NK Rijeka and Osijek, we now turn our attention to Igor Tudors Hajduk Split – one of the largest teams in 1 HNL and a squad still fighting for the second spot in the table, behind Dinamo Zagreb, Croatias only consistent participant in the Champions League.

This article will dissect Tudors philosophy and tactics at Hajduk Split, dividing the analysis into both data and tactical components to provide a clear overview of the club.

Igor Tudor Data analysis

Before delving into the tactics, we have to go through the purely statistical part that will help us determine general trends in the team, their overall style in both attack and defence, and identify key figures across all phases of play.

As with all of our previous 1 HNL pieces, we’ll start by determining the team’s style of play by measuring the number of lateral passes per 90 minutes against the number of long balls per 90 minutes.

While this is only a general overview, those two metrics can still help us divide the teams into positional and direct styles of play, and Hajduk is among the teams that clearly prefer the former.

But it has to be said that among the top four positional teams from the graph, the team from Split deploy the most long balls per 90 minutes, suggesting that despite mostly having a positional approach, they are not complete strangers to a more direct approach when necessary.

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