Pressing is a fundamental defensive strategy in football, characterized by applying pressure on the ball owning team to regain possession. Despite its significance, existing metrics for measuring pressing often lack precision or comprehensive consideration of positional data, player movement and speed. This research introduces an innovative framework for quantifying pressing intensity, leveraging advancements in positional tracking data and components from Spearman's Pitch Control model. Our method integrates player velocities, movement directions, and reaction times to compute the time required for a defender to intercept an attacker or the ball. This time-to-intercept measure is then transformed into probabilistic values using a logistic function, enabling dynamic and intuitive analysis of pressing situations at the individual frame level. the model captures how every player's movement influences pressure on the field, offering actionable insights for coaches, analysts, and decision-makers. By providing a robust and intepretable metric, our approach facilitates the identification of pressing strategies, advanced situational analyses, and the derivation of metrics, advancing the analytical capabilities for modern football.

翻译：压迫是足球中的一项基本防守策略，其特点是对控球方施加压力以重新获得球权。尽管其重要性显著，现有的压迫测量指标往往缺乏精确性，或未能全面考虑位置数据、球员移动和速度。本研究引入了一个量化压迫强度的创新框架，利用了位置追踪数据的进展以及斯皮尔曼球场控制模型的组件。我们的方法整合了球员速度、移动方向和反应时间，以计算防守球员拦截进攻球员或球所需的时间。这一拦截时间度量随后通过逻辑函数转换为概率值，从而能够在单帧级别对压迫情境进行动态且直观的分析。该模型捕捉了每位球员的移动如何影响场上的压力，为教练、分析师和决策者提供了可操作的见解。通过提供一个稳健且可解释的度量，我们的方法有助于识别压迫策略、进行高级情境分析并推导出相关指标，从而提升了现代足球的分析能力。