retired_sunshined

as a team or just 1 player??? im talking about individual players having over 150 passes

retired_mekeesha

How about this news item pertaining to a Euro game yesterday:

http://www.football365.com/story/0,1...664298,00.html

That 30-second spell could well extend to long periods in some games.

deantibbetts

If you watch the full match you will see a triangle of defenders pass the ball between themselves about 25 times in 2 minutes, time wasting. So each of them will have made 25 passes and this adds up as they continue to "waste time" during the match.

IMO it should be corrected, as i've watched the opposition do it even though they are losing There are ways to counteract it and I gave them in my previous post, although you will still see it from time to time.

retired_lbils

liverpool early 90s, anyone?

retired_tpsmile

Its not that weird really.

Full match 90 mins would mean alot of passes.

retired_marcias

I had this when Werder Bremen played West Ham in the UEFA cup. I ended up putting all my players on closing down, man marking and all sorts which is ridiculous really - as the home team there's no way we should have to have our creative midfielders man marking opposition players.

Even that made precious little difference though. It was a master class in anti-football from West Ham, made all the worse by the fact that we made one slight defensive error allowing them to score a 30-yard goal to add to their 2-0 lead from their home leg. Apart from that they made no attempt to play the ball forward at all. I guess it is fair enough in a sense - their tactic worked to get them through, although that was as much because we wasted the 16 chances we made from our 34% possession as it was because they kept the ball, but I very rarely see any team play so negatively in real life.

Well, that is until I watched Greece play Sweden the other night...now I begin to feel maybe West Ham's "kill football" tactic was realistic after all

retired_sunshined

ok well i watched Spain v Sweden & most of the time all spain was doin was passing & the stats came up at around the 60min mark & they had 400passes, i jus playd AC Milan in the UCL semi's & jus calculated all there passes it = 887 passes with four of there players having over 100 & one of them having 188