Passing

Pass Accuracy

Jason Shackell 84.80%
Aaron Lewis 84%
Joe Morrell 83.80%
Callum Connolly  83.70%
Michael Bostwick 82%
Ellis Chapman  81.40%

Successful Passes Per Game

Neal Eardley  34.93
Jason Shackell 33.75
Joe Morrell  31.80
Michael Bostwick  28.01
Harry Toffolo  28.01

I widely expected to see a couple of defenders here. Without drilling down into forward passes etc, it was always likely that our side to side approach would see the central defenders coming out on top; after all it’s easier to ping a five yard pas to a teammate than a fifty yard ball forward to feet.

Aaron Lewis comes up well in the accuracy stakes, but only in three matches, hence including the six in the top list. With the second list, Michael O’Connor just missed out which is worth mentioning, as it is him and Joe Morrell I hoped to see in the top five. Why? Because I feel those two, laying deeper in the side, are key players and if they keep on performing we’ll have a chance of creating something.

Maybe it’s disappointing that some of the big name players, Grant and Payne, have not troubled the top six. They do have a harder job to do, passing forward and creating, but surely the same can be said for Joe Morrell. If anything, these stats merely highlight what a big player the Bristol City loanee has been for us.

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