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Our goal was to capture the properties of synergic behavior in football, using spatiotemporal data from one match of the 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP RUSSIA, to explore the application of player-ball-goal angles in cluster phase analysis. Linear mixed effects models were used to test the statistical significance of different effects, such as: team, half(-time), role and pitch zones. Results showed that the cluster phase values (synchronization) for the home team, had a 3.812\u00d710\u22122\u00b10.536\u00d710\u22122 increase with respect to the away team (X2(41)=259.8,\u00a0p&lt;0.001) and that changing the role from with ball to without ball increased synchronization by 16.715\u00d710\u22122\u00b10.283\u00d710\u22122 (X2(41)=12227.0,\u00a0p&lt;0.001). The interaction between effects was also significant. The player-team relative phase, the player-ball-goal angles relative frequency and the team configurations, showed that variations of synchronization might indicate critical performance changes (ball possession changes, goals scored, etc.). 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