Passing as a useful statistic is officially DEAD. There is just no way on God's green earth that the Scottish Champions are also the Kings of Passing Football. Nope. I've watched too many of their matches, both in the league and in europe to see with my own eyes that they are a HORRIFIC passing side. Stringing together 8 passes? V difficult for our Glaswegian friends. Now, I understand how this happened. The Scottish leagues will never win awards for its quality and probably never will. Also if you have a exponential difference in salary between the top club and the rest, you will get rigged numbers. This however should have been kept under lock and key by the CIES to avoid the death of a once beloved and overused stat. Passing completion and percentage can never be looked at the same. Thoughts and prayers to our friends at Opta who now can no longer show these stats during the live coverage of a match.
Also, I'm just going to leave these here.............
PS. If you are interested in football stats, player evaluations, transfers, etc. CIES releases reports like these once a month and are really quite fascinating. I would highly recommend it, if you're into that.
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