I have no complaints with that. What a joy to see some rip roaring football at last. This is a style that will utilise the talents we have available and if we keep playing like this I almost don't care about results in the short term.
First half stats from the BBC: please log in to view this image Need to make sure that we see this one out. It's very tight at the top at the moment.
Still the key issues though. Passing not fast/forward enough to prevent them lining up their defence. And Soldado low on confidence.
Just seen Paulinho's stats flash up. 45 touches, 100% pass accuracy. Considering some of the stuff that he was attempting, that's pretty impressive. Hope he keeps it up.
One angle showed he got the ball first. Others not so clear-cut. As always, in real time the officials will tend to not give them.
Possession is the most misleading statistic ever produced, it means nothing unless you get 100%. I'd rather have 2%, 5 shots on target with all of them going in. And as for fouls, until they bring in a sin bin they mean nothing.
Possession is the most misleading statistic ever produced, it means nothing unless you get 100%. I'd rather have 2%, 5 shots on target with all of them going in. And as for fouls, until they bring in a sin bin they mean nothing.
Those possession stats need to broken down into quarters of the field. In which case quarter 2 would probably be 90% and quarter 4 10% ,
