Impressively poor stats. Our passing was bad last year and seems to have got worse.
Absolutely – but most of those “passes” weren’t passes. They were clearances. Aimless hoofs into space. There was hardly any attempt to keep the ball or to try to build an attack. We completely surrendered possession whenever we got it. The only thing I can compare it to is that famous Barcelona v. Inter Milan game when Inter put 11 (then 10) men behind the ball for 90 minutes to get through to the final. But that was quite a good Inter side!
