When I watch us, the word that consistently comes to mind is chaos. We’re a good team with a lot of talent and a deep squad, which takes you a long way, especially this year.
The issues are that we don’t ever really control games, we give the opposition a lot of chances and time on the ball in the final third, and one that is quite obvious, we try to play out from the back and we are poor at it (which often leads to good chances for the opposition).
This stat, to me, is a function of that. If we were a team the prioritized controlling a game and limiting the opposition’s chances, games like yesterday would be a lot more likely to end with 1-0 or 2-0 wins. If we weren’t so deadly on the counterattack, we’d probably see more points dropped from winning positions than we have seen this season (7 points only).
I don’t want to sound overly negative because regardless of all that, it is still a good sign that the players don’t let their heads drop and claw their way back into games.