Yes you can
I just look at some of our players and I know people say they can pass a lot better but for some of them I don’t see it.
Mangala improves us and Garner is a big miss because he can look after the ball. McNeil and Ndiaye are ok at it.
All of the defence except perhaps for Young are pretty terrible on the ball, Mykolenko Coleman Tarkowski and Keane are absolutely awful. Doucoure is awful, Calvert Lewin isn’t very good. Idrissa Gueye is inconsistent, one minute he handles like he’s at PSG, the next he’s under hitting suicide balls across the middle of the pitch.
So if we have some of the better players on the pitch we can definitely do more of it but even last night there’s times when they get themselves into a complete mess when someone miscontrols or underhits a pass, at 2-0 Doucoure took one under jo pressure in midfield and instead of turning absolutely leathered it backwards and played in the Wolves player and it ended up being panic stations to get it behind for a corner, that came from no danger whatsoever.
We’ve survived as a PL club because we’ve had a very good goalkeeper, good defenders in Branthwaite and Tarkowski and we’ve got some players who give their all off the ball.
I genuinely think that other PL teams, even the ones at the bottom, don’t carry players as technically poor on the ball as Coleman, Keane, Mykolenko Doucoure, Gueye, Calvert Lewin. I just don’t see other teams bobbling five yard passes and taking horrible fat touches under no pressure.
They’ve done it under all managers. Pickford bowls one out too quickly to Keane who leathers it at Tom Davies who took a fat touch and we were a goal down to Dyche’s Burnley under Carlo. There was a derby when it got played back to Coleman who took a fat touch and had it stolen off him and we conceded.
It’s blighted us for years, you only need one weak link in a team when playing possession football and we have far too many.
