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I am struggling to understand how a professional football team can be so bizarrely awful at simple passes, not talking complex ones, just simple balls. It is beyond baffling at this point.
It’s a deep rooted issue at our club, we’ve gone through so many players, coaches and managers I just don’t get it. Even without really trying we much fall on the right combination of all those to improve it, even just a bit.I am struggling to understand how a professional football team can be so bizarrely awful at simple passes, not talking complex ones, just simple balls. It is beyond baffling at this point.
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That’s horrible to see. It sometimes seems we actively avoid playing balls over the top when we actually have players clearly making good runs. Then we smash the ball over the top only for the camera to pan and show no one remotely close to being behind the defence. It’s infuriating.Tweet
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The premise of that clip would make a lot more sense if Ronaldo wasn’t also one of the main culprits. Last night he managed to somehow turn a simple 5 yard pass straight back to the feet of the player he’d received the ball from into a chest high bobble. They were all fecking at it. So frustrating to watch.Tweet
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Remember Paul Scholes? Always had 95% passing stats. Now we have midfielders with 70% passing stats.Tweet
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Yep. Ronaldo is far from the problem. His movement and finishing is still clearly excellent, it’s the supporting cast who are incredibly wasteful. I like Rashford but he is so sloppy at times, Bruno too. We need a couple technically reliable midfielders.Tweet
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I don’t think the premise was to highlight a great passer lamenting shit passers with no vision. Our centre forward isn’t picked to progress the ball from midfield or the wings.The premise of that clip would make a lot more sense if Ronaldo wasn’t also one of the main culprits. Last night he managed to somehow turn a simple 5 yard pass straight back to the feet of the player he’d received the ball from into a chest high bobble. They were all fecking at it. So frustrating to watch.
Ok, yeah, then I agree. Although some of Maguire’s passes are excellent too. It’s a huge problem to have so few players in midfield and attack capable of unlocking defences with a quality pass.I don’t think the premise was to highlight a great passer lamenting shit passers with no vision. Our centre forward isn’t picked to progress the ball from midfield or the wings.
We basically only have three players in the squad who have the vision to see and complete less obvious, high upside passes. For whatever reason Bruno is too high up the pitch to regularly make them, and Lindelöf and Pogba are both injured. We miss them dearly. We’re going to continue to have low chance creation when none of these three players are put in the position to receive the ball and create.
Forwards will lose possession more often than defenders as the passes they are attempting are usually tougher.Tweet
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The problem with Maguire's passes though are that they are almost always when our opponents have found their shape and it might only amount to getting the ball wide to a full back who's not in a position to do much with it.Ok, yeah, then I agree. Although some of Maguire’s passes are excellent too. It’s a huge problem to have so few players in midfield and attack capable of unlocking defences with a quality pass.
Although I thought this thread was more about making a pig’s ear of simple passes. Which all of our players seem to do, all of the fecking time. With Ronaldo the most recent addition to the list.
No, the video was all about failed passes or spurned opportunities to pass to Ronaldo.Ok, yeah, then I agree. Although some of Maguire’s passes are excellent too. It’s a huge problem to have so few players in midfield and attack capable of unlocking defences with a quality pass.
Although I thought this thread was more about making a pig’s ear of simple passes. Which all of our players seem to do, all of the fecking time. With Ronaldo the most recent addition to the list.
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There would be a court of enquiry if Scholes or Keane lost possession.Remember Paul Scholes? Always had 95% passing stats. Now we have midfielders with 70% passing stats.
I'm looking at Bruno on Whoscored. It says that Bruno had 15 long ball passes and 4 accurate long ball passes. I presume that means he had 11 out of 15 bad long passes....so maybe he shouldn't do long passes?
Harry McGuire had 15 long passes with 11 good, in contrast.
Or more..Compared to the other so called big 6, we must be the worst technically.
We have maybe 3 technical players in our squad, we are bad technically in all areas.Fred and Mctominay our two central midfielders have a relatively poor first touch at this level. Fred is a hazard close to our box for this reason and Mctominay's is probably even worse.
If our two CMs are sloppy with passing and their touch it doesn't bode well for the rest of the team.
There aren't enough highliy technical players in our starting lineup.
No position are our players technically good enough.We need to sign a midfielder.
I agree but we would be a much better team once we get a technically competent midfielder.No position are our players technically good enough.
I agree but I really think we need to rethink our midfield. It's the most important area and we should start there to understand how we get control and dominate games.I agree but we would be a much better team once we get a technically competent midfielder.