Originally Posted by
MillersTime
I'm talking about the fact that League 1 should be an easier league to pass and keep the ball in due to the obvious drop in quality with regards to the opposition. That's what I was saying in the post that you replied to with the whole passing ten yards stuff.
I don't think we have given the ball away when under no pressure that much. That wasn't the issue for me with our passing. Our issue was not having the conviction to pass the ball enough in the first place to get in increased scenarios to pass it under less pressure. Too many times we could of played it to another CB or the keeper for example and then spread wide with the 3 CBs, outnumbering the attackers closing down the ball, then playing simple balls out, that would open the play up and we go from there. Instead of that we basically took the easy option and just tried to hit the big man up top. This is generally where we shanked balls all over the place.
Our issue wasn't the quality of our short passing, it was that we didn't do it enough. We opted for the safe, yet highly unlikely to succeed, approach.