Fair enough, it's still a shocking stat in a home game. According to sofascore, the last time we had zero shots on target in a game was Martin O'Neill's last game, the 0-0 draw away to Denmark and we only one shot in total in that game.
I'm not sure how to make a fair comparison between Kenny's time so far and Mick games in charge last year. Mick beat Bulgaria 3-1 in a friendly, Kenny drew 1-1 and 0-0 with the same team a year later.
On average Kenny's team are attempting, and completing, about 170 more passes per game, but we're averaging the same number of shots, and have less shots on target.
Watching the Bulgaria game last night, and also against Wales at the weekend, I did think that they were happy to let us pass the ball in our own half, because our midfield doens't have the players to retain possession when they get forward into the opposition half, so the ball was easy to regain.
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