16.9 per cent of passes go astray. One of them could lead to a goal. Liverpool gave a goal away in a match recently and they passed the ball a few times.
Indeed,
but if a 17% rate of misplaced passes for an Irish midfield player is not good enough, then I must be missing something
Judging by reports, most every Andy Reid pass is described glowingly as clever, graceful, etc
Most every Andy Reid shot is described as stunning, a thumper.
All Andy need to do for us in addition, is do a bit of covering now and again.
McClean can shoot but he doesn't manage it, McGeady can shoot but mostly weakly.
Only Brady atm can take his shot.
But he is an attacking midfielder, Whelan has a higher pass success in his only game but he only made 16 passes.
Andy also has 4 goals and 3 assists.
I would imagine most of the passes that go stray are attacking passes in the final third, not routine passes in the first third.
He's the top rated Championship player, what more does he have to do?
Robbie Brady is also in the Premiership top 100 players at no 76
1.4 key passes 32.2 average passes a game 82.6 %success
Andy beats all his stats but then Robbies is at the bottom end of a better league.
So both have a case for a starting place, and of course we have Aiden who is first choice presumably.
We seems to produce enough good left wingers to form a new political party.
Another assist for Andy Reid, setting up Jack Hobbs for the only goal in the Forest-Derby derby. Richard Keogh was harshly sent off in the same game.
Yeah Keogh was unlucky, I think he got a nick on the ball. Reid had a great chance, put through in the 94th min but didn't quite have the legs, was closed down and rushed the shot.
Just watching Forest's goal against Derby today... how many goals have we scored from set-pieces in this campaign? I can remember Keogh's v Germany and Walters' v Austria, but overall we haven't offered half the threat that we did when Duff, Lawrence and Hunt were in the team. I remember in the first Trap campaign in particular, it seemed like any time we got a corner or free kick there was a real sense we could sneak one. I wonder if somebody like Reid, in spite of his lack of athleticism, would bring that element back into our game. With players like Dunne and Clark around we surely have players who can dominate in the opposition penalty box.
Well, yeah.
He should play against the Kazakhs...
Not Germany?
Give him a chance!
If he does play, would this be the longest time a player has been absent from the team and then returned?
Roy Keane?
In terms of starting XI, I'd hazard a guess that the only other contender would be a goalkeeper, maybe Gerry Peyton.
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