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Data-Driven Recruitment Tactics To Find Dominant Defenders
Today, we have a recruitment analysis piece focusing on the use of data to identify dominant defenders.


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When starting the recruitment process within football, it is incredibly important that you fully understand what you are trying to be and what you are trying to achieve as a football club.
Do you plan to use a back three or a back four? Within that, do you expect your central defenders to be key in the build-up phase, or are they there purely to nullify opposition attacks?
The questions go on, and if you complete this process properly, you should end up with a list of player profiles for each position on the pitch.
Then, we need to understand exactly what these profiles mean and how they fit together as a cohesive unit on the pitch.
Lee Scott guides us through how to use data to identify dominant defenders in his new recruitment analysis!
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