Quote Originally Posted by MFKS View Post
Because even though you do not rate stats one thing is actually true about then.

Goals are actually scored from the minimal passing plays

It actually rare to see goals after 5 passes

It one of the reasons why under Jones we are looking better we are actually moving the ball forward more often and quicker and doing much less of the recycling possession shit we have done.

Something GVE and the rest since have never understood

This post got me reading and you are wrong but you are right.

In the 'top 3' leagues possession, passing and passing accuracy has pretty much lined up with table position and goals scored. The one big outlier is West Brom in the EPL who are bottom in the passing stats but middle to high for goal ratio and table position.

The same can be said for the Italian and Spanish league.


BUT

drill down a bit and once you get out of the top tier of leagues and into the German, French, then onto USA and obviously A-League (where my reading started) and there is way less of a correlation between passing/possession and goals, which is exactly what you are saying.

So my takeaway from this is that is you wanna play like Barca, then you gotta go get players good enough to be able to play like that (yo 'sup GVE?). If you don't have the cattle, then you need to adjust accordingly. Now IMHO Jones didnt play to his players at the start of the year, but in the last few weeks there has been a noticeable shift in tactics and we as 'fans' have seen it (and enjoyed it).

and as mentioned before, i give Jones the benefit and credit for this.
now, the next step is bringing in more players who can dance to his boogie. If he can do that (and if he is allowed to do it) then i can't see why the good times can't continue.




i mean, of course, the same thing 'could' have happened if Miller continued on but anyway..........