Our Starting X1 2019/20

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Worrall's all round game is improving but there are still serious flaws evident, the standard of his passing being the most worrying.

Personally, I think he needs another year out on loan; this time at a better level of football.

But stats from last season tells a different story. He actually had a Pass Accuracy rate of 88,1% which is extremely good.

Stats are fairly meaningless, particularly passing stats.

Players can rack up pretty good stats by playing a shed load of short passes.

How many of the 11.9% failures led to goals?

In the three games I have seen him play pre season, his passing has fluctuated between moderate and dreadful; he just does not look comfortable on the ball.

Against Palace his all round game was good but his passing was shocking

I guess those pass statistics are inflated by the fact he played for rangers who probably didn’t get attacked much against the weaker teams in Scotland.

By worrying that Milo only had 75% pass completion if we’re saying he’s even worse than Worrall hypothetically then we’re in trouble if we’re going to attempt to pass out from the back. How’s figs at passing? Don’t want another warburton situation where the defenders/keeper were unable to pass the way he wanted but he did it anyway!

One of the issues with the passing stats for the centre halves last year was that under O'Neill Colback (or whoever was filling his position) would often drop deep to allow space for the centre backs to exploit but then had to force passes, sometimes playing 50/50 balls at best. 

If you are playing in an offensive role its not unusual for passing stats to be reduced because you are forcing the play, Andy Reid is a great example of this at this level.