ABSTRACT
In soccer games, the players, coaches and spectators will get positive experiences when the attacking play is successful. This means a lot of attacking attempts, scoring chances and goals. Positive attacking play will in the future be a key point for attractive football. This may explain why the majority of match analysis and tactics employed in soccer has been related to attacking play (Franks & Goodman, 1986? Harris & Reilly, 1988; Ali, 1988? Chervenjakov, 1988? Winkler, 1988). In general, the team dominating will win the game but not always. Many exceptions were found in the 1990 World Cup in Italy.
