Making Use of Stats
I often hear these days managers brandishing stats to prove a point. It's a way of showing they are forward thinking.The biggest fan of this approach was Iain Dowie.
He too easily forgot that the game's not just about stats,but also the heart,passion,and commitment shown by eleven man facing thier opposition.That said I personally believe that proper use of Statistics can help show where a teams going wrong
Chris Coleman clearly does too,because in todays Telegraph he uses them to highlight a trend surely all City fans have noticed
City try to pass teams to death.As he shows hitting far more passes than Sheffield Wednesday and Cardiff meant absolutely nothing.In the stat that really matters both teams scored two goals when we failed to score at all
Again as Chris says the key is what happens in both boxes. The high pass rate is not matched by a high rate of shots on goal.Only by taking shots can we hope to score.
However he should ask himself why so many City players chose to pass rather than shoot.Is there not a basic lack of confidence and self belief ?.Im sure he'd encourage his players to not be worried about losing the ball,or blazing the shot wide
The key is not to aimlessly blast the ball forward and hope for the best I'm not suggesting that.This leads to the ball being given away too often and the City defence then being put under pressure.
By the same token over passing,while not making progress up the field just gives the opposition defence time to group and deny the forwards space.We need to see the City moving the ball forward at pace,thereby unsettling the opposition defence
In "A game of two halves" I celebrated the fact that we had our first shot on goal against Bristol City on six minutes.This is what we should aim for against Reading
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