Centre half, football, pro/rel - soccer commentators are great at talking in jargon that flavor the culture and analysis of the game. What’s better is that new words and terms are constantly joining the lexicon - xG, Chuck Blazer, and zone 14 are no doubt terms that fans are now extremely familiar with. A new word is joining these informative and colorful phrases. If Merriam-Webster’s put out a soccer word of the year, the front runner for 2018 would be the mighty, the amorphous, the cudgel shaped - “GAME STATE.” You may be familiar with the term, it is used to explain everything from why Josef Martinez isn’t actually good and only scores easy hat tricks to unidentified tactics, trends, or game events that pundits don’t identify, analyze, or explain but attribute to the outcome of a match.
The Daily Dirt May 3, 2018: Time for some Game State Theory
