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Post by podolipotter on Mar 22, 2009 15:23:48 GMT
Does any statto know where we would figure in a possession percentage league? I was surprised to see during the game yesterday that Stoke only had 39% possession????? (I think this was shown on the Sky sports news analysis on the internet, just before we scored) I know - and fully laud the fact that we won, and we do win or draw a fair number where we are hardly in the game according to the amount of possession held. However, yesterday I would have thought that, at home, playing a weaker(?) team we should have held on to the ball much more than this?
Does this fact worry others?
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Post by lancer on Mar 22, 2009 15:57:45 GMT
Well, we cetrtinly didn't retain the ball for very long even when we got it. We hardly put three passes together for most of the game. We seemed to anxious to put the ball upfield and gave it away. The stats seem about right to me. Thing is, however, the stat that really counted. ergo 1-0.
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Post by mikeyb99 on Mar 22, 2009 16:01:44 GMT
Our ball retention is truly shocking, home or away. To be rectified next season, with better players, and hopefully a game based more on passing than long-balls!
It has tended to cost us away from home, but we've largely got away with it on our own patch.
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Post by arma on Mar 22, 2009 16:07:11 GMT
We also get the ball forward faster, where they liked to play triangles in their back four.
Our retention is shocking at times, but I don't think possession stats tell the entire story of a game.
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Post by abboscfc on Mar 22, 2009 16:12:31 GMT
at the end of the day the only stats that matters are,
stoke city 1-0 middlesbrough
and
TEAM P PTS GD GS
Man Utd 29 65 31 49
Liverpool 30 62 28 49
Chelsea 30 61 32 49
Arsenal 30 55 21 48
Aston Villa 30 53 12 43
Everton 30 48 9 40
Wigan 30 41 2 30
West Ham 30 41 0 35
Fulham 30 40 4 30
Tottenham 30 38 2 36
Man City 30 36 8 45
Bolton 30 34 -12 32
Sunderland 30 33 -9 29
Hull 30 33 -17 35
Portsmouth 29 32 -14 32
Stoke 30 32 -18 29
Blackburn 30 31 -16 33
Newcastle 30 29 -13 36
Middlesbrough 30 27 -21 21
West Brom 30 24 -29 26
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Post by march4 on Mar 22, 2009 16:52:19 GMT
I believe West Brazil's ball retention is outstanding!!
Its goals that count. I found it funny at times yesterday. Boro spent 10 minutes building from the back with tippy tappying, before the final ball went out for a goal kick.
We replied with one ball from back to front. An instant attack that meant their defenders were always potentially seconds away from a goalscoring opportunity.
The only time I would like us to keep possession is when we are winning and trying to kill the game.
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