A refreshed and dominant Celtic side racked up over 800 passes, including 4 players passing the 100 mark. Despite an own goal, from Lustig, Celtic played aggressive attacking football to create chances and ultimately win with comfort.
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A refreshed and dominant Celtic side racked up over 800 passes, including 4 players passing the 100 mark. Despite an own goal, from Lustig, Celtic played aggressive attacking football to create chances and ultimately win with comfort.
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Joe Fee says
Really appreciate all the work you put into these figures
Thanks
schoosh71 says
Thank again for having this excellent cite. 93% of pass completion, with 79%
possession. Wow, it doesn’t get much better than that. As for Craig Gordon with a 100% pass completion, how can he possibly improve on that. 🙂 HH
celticbynumbers@btinternet.com says
Thanks schoosh71.
Pass completion on its own doesn’t tell you a whole lot. Passing the ball back and sideways for 90m will get you great looking figures in that regard to use an extreme example. Similarly “low” pass completion is not necessarily “bad” – Armstrong for example attempts a lot of high difficulty passes – the pay off is he breaks the defensive lines and bypasses opposition players reducing the defensive cover between Celtic and the goal – but he doesn’t complete them all the time. Next season I will introduce a “packing” rate and metric – more information can be found here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4qn-0kM044. Any other improvements to what I capture – suggestions welcome!
celticbynumbers@btinternet.com says
Thanks Joe – appreciated.