How much posession will Tahiti have against Spain?

that's ~ what Uruguay had at the end of the first half yesterday.

It's probably a good thing that Spain plays Tahiti second. If they played them in game 3 and only needed a draw to win the group by that point, Tahiti actually may not get the ball.

7% is equal to 6.3 minutes of possession. I'll take the over.

According to Opta's possession determination, i might take the under at 7%...

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Opta now record possession in a football match by means of an automated calculation based on the number of passes that a team has in a game. We have two analysts, each monitoring one of the teams and they log each event in a game, totalling between 1600 and 2000 events per match.

Each of these events has a timecode plus an xy co-ordinate and the collection system is rigorously monitored by our team of checkers.

During the game, the passes for each team are totalled up and then each team’s total is divided by the game total to produce a percentage figure which shows the percentage of the game that each team has accrued in possession of the ball.
For Opta "ball possession" means percentage of completed passes, and is not a measure of time, though Opta does claim that the two are very closely related.

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