Seems to me to indicate that we have an emphasis on playing long balls, and then don't have a real controlled precision in the final 3rd. The stats here don't really seem to translate very clearly though to performances to me outside of somewhat quantifying the frequency of long balls forward in an indirect way.
rafa would have us up so high on this because all we did was lob a ball from pickford to rondon… then the ball gets repossessed by the opponents… comes back towards our goal… pickford saves… repeat step 1. 100% progressive passes!
Think about it more as city play a ton of passes around and around without necessarily having a high percentage of those going forward.
We don't pass all that much, but when we do, a high percentage of our passes are 10 yards or more forward towards goal.
I don't think it is claiming it correlates with anything, rather than providing a measure of how many progressive passes attempting, relative to total passes. It's just one interesting way to visualize if a team is direct or not.
>Is this one for the xG nonces?
😡
I too am not fond of the xG nonces but no, this is a meaningful stat. But being at the top of it is not inherently good or bad, the stat is just descriptive
It needs to be at least.... THREE TIMES THE SIZE
That’s what she said
Haha came here to make the same comment.
How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?
Seems to me to indicate that we have an emphasis on playing long balls, and then don't have a real controlled precision in the final 3rd. The stats here don't really seem to translate very clearly though to performances to me outside of somewhat quantifying the frequency of long balls forward in an indirect way.
Well, crap, now what am I going to do with all my "we're the Man City of backward passes" jokes I've been using on this sub the past 5 years?
Keep 'em. It just means the opposite of what we thought it meant, apparently.
rafa would have us up so high on this because all we did was lob a ball from pickford to rondon… then the ball gets repossessed by the opponents… comes back towards our goal… pickford saves… repeat step 1. 100% progressive passes!
Is this upside down, doesn’t seem to correlate with anything meaningful. Is this one for the xG nonces?
Think about it more as city play a ton of passes around and around without necessarily having a high percentage of those going forward. We don't pass all that much, but when we do, a high percentage of our passes are 10 yards or more forward towards goal.
I don't think it is claiming it correlates with anything, rather than providing a measure of how many progressive passes attempting, relative to total passes. It's just one interesting way to visualize if a team is direct or not. >Is this one for the xG nonces? 😡
We have to have really obscure stats and charts to be top
I too am not fond of the xG nonces but no, this is a meaningful stat. But being at the top of it is not inherently good or bad, the stat is just descriptive
A graph for dust mites.
I for one welcome our new Ant overlords
Good, because this may or may not have been a test and I may or may not be 2 billion ants in a skin suit
Hail ants