The current champion of the Copa Libertadores, Fernando Diniz’s Fluminense, is a team that arouses passions among many football enthusiasts. His game scheme, which is one of the most “liquid” in modern football, is questioned as well as praised, since it consists of a completely adaptable system in which fixed positions seem to not exist.
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However, this style of play would not be a success if it were not for the quality of the passes delivered, since Diniz’s is a style that shines for his long possessions of the ball and for moving the ball at will, changing it from place to place. constant form with long passes and many short passes, the latter being a characteristic that allows him to stand out from the rest.
According to data from the CIES Football Observatory, Fluminense is the sixth most effective team in the world when it comes to giving short passes, since they give passes that, on average, are 17.22 meters.
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Fluminense would only be surpassed in this statistic by clubs of the stature of Tottenham Hotspur (16.99 meters), Southampton (16.99 meters), both from English football, Roasso Kumamoto (16.84 meters) from Japan, Malmo (16.75 meters) from Sweden and Bayer Leverkusen (16.11 meters) of the Bundesliga.
