Yes it does but it also requires wingers and forwards who can hold onto the ball. When a team has 3 in the middle against you they just pass it around you so when you get the ball you need to try and keep hold of it for abit. That si something we seriously cannot do. Davies, Gomes, Iwobi, Bernard, walcott, DCL etc etc all been culpable recently for giving the ball away sloppily and getting to easy turned over. Elite CMs will help but without others around them to control the ball, have good movement and pass a round shaped object to each other, it’s sort of counter intuitive.