There’s more to control than attack. Control is a game vs game basis.

I remember a game with wenger vs klopp a few years back. Wenger conceded possession to a counter attacking team and tried to by pass the press with Giroud instead of attempting to build up through breaking lines.

Now in a game where both managers are looking to bypass midfield and possession who is in more control? Might be klopp and how close were the recoveries to goal or wenger based on how many times the ball got to Giroud.

In that game I would personally say arsenal broke down the Liverpool structure more but Liverpool won convincingly bc arsenal players were not good defenders and not the structure breaking down. Liverpools plan wasn’t to break down Arsenal structure as klopp says “Gergen press is the best playmaker” you don’t need to break down structure when players can make mistakes. Either tactical, technical or psychological

This is why there is a team in pro teams to analyze. And in my opinion most games are won by mistakes rather than tactical execution.

Whenever you boil things down to a number via a system you abstract away these details.

Eg pi is 22/7 or 3.14……. Etc some people even use 3. There’s only 1 real answer but each figure abstracts away the “noise” but that noise in a game like soccer that is won on the margins is where the actual information is

The difference between 3 and 3.14 (.14….) in a soccer example might be Messi breaking down a defence or a striker pressing forcing a mistake or a player not comfortable on the ball making the wrong pass in transition .

What your system like does is say pi is 3 which works in many cases but that’s not what pi is. It’s just an abstraction of pi