Acceleration

A run with the ball with a significant speed up.

Fede Valverde accelerating with the ball

Eden Hazard accelerating towards the ball

Details

• Accelerations are only tagged for meaningful runs, at least 10 meters long.
• The player should touch the ball, otherwise, a meaningful run in the open space would be an Off the ball move.
• About half of accelerations are also Progressive runs.

Available metrics

Accelerations / 90

Number of accelerations normalized per 90 minutes.