Average possession

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This will shock a few

Cardiff City so far have the highest average possession of any team in the EFL:



64.4%: Cardiff
63.6%: Leicester, Southampton
61.9%: Chesterfield

Posted the exact same to you so have moved my post to this thread

Thankfully we are actually winning games too, hate watching possession based football when it's teams who are scared to attack

Thankfully we are actually winning games too, hate watching possession based football when it's teams who are scared to attack

Was just about to say the same thing. It's a results based business & as long as we have the results that's what matters.

Shows that we are controlling the games better though. More goals would be my only very minor complaint as we're low on the goals scored compared to some of our nearest rivals.

Can't remember the last time I watched us dominate teams the way we are at the moment

And it's not just possession without purpose, we are actually using the ball to hurt teams rather than just passing it slowly around the back four then back to the keeper and so on

Thankfully we are actually winning games too, hate watching possession based football when it's teams who are scared to attack

I think that's what BBM learned at Man City.

The criticism of his Rochdale team was that they focused too much on just keeping the ball but wouldn't progress up the pitch.

Obviously the people at Man City are experts at this way of playing and that's where he learnt how to move the ball forward while playing this way.

We are controlling the ball but also having the ball around the opponents' penalty area a lot.

I watched the Rangers game yesterday and they looked like a typical Russell Martin team. Loads of possession but did nothing with it.

It's the Cardiff Way!

Take that Jack b*stard hoof merchants.

Thankfully we are actually winning games too, hate watching possession based football when it's teams who are scared to attack

I think that's what BBM learned at Man City.

The criticism of his Rochdale team was that they focused too much on just keeping the ball but wouldn't progress up the pitch.

Obviously the people at Man City are experts at this way of playing and that's where he learnt how to move the ball forward while playing this way.

We are controlling the ball but also having the ball around the opponents' penalty area a lot.

I watched the Rangers game yesterday and they looked like a typical Russell Martin team. Loads of possession but did nothing with it.

There is a logic to it when done properly; it tires the opponents out, the keeper plays a big part, increasing the numbers so we have five at the back that can receive and play the ball out. Five subs doesn't help us as opposing teams are changing the full five early against us, the front three normally all come off quite early, they are struggling in the second half as we move them from side to side.

As above the Cardiff Way is miles better to watch than the old Swansea boringway, keeper to fullback to keeper to fullback, that was so pointless and boring.

The crazy thing about this, beside it being Cardiff City, is that three of our 5 games have been away.

To have that much possession in an away game is mad

We're also (at the time of writing) scoring 1.75 goals per match, conceding 0.94 (significantly better than our 2017/18 promotion to the premier league season, and chalk and cheese in the years that followed).

This 'afraid to attack' opinion isn't correlating. We have the best goal difference and only Leyton Orient have scored 1 more than is in L1; but played 2 more games.

I've looked back every season to 2008/2009 and we have a few stints in the 50%, but tend to live in the 40% region.

BBM Ball.

Can people remember Mar 2nd 2021? We beat Derby 4-0 with only 27% possession.
So possession is important obviously as without the ball you can't score, but that statistics is amazing

Fair play, to have those possession stats and still be outright top is very impressive. Proves this new style of play overall is working and producing the results.

Hats off to BBM and his coaching staff...and of course the players too.

It’s more impressive that we are actually going forward with the possession, not just passing it between defenders and keeper, like the jack did for the last 10 years.

Can people remember Mar 2nd 2021? We beat Derby 4-0 with only 27% possession.
So possession is important obviously as without the ball you can't score, but that statistics is amazing

Give me just 3 other examples in our history where this has happened?

Actually, lets say 2.

Thankfully we are actually winning games too, hate watching possession based football when it's teams who are scared to attack

Spot On .