Originally Posted by
thehumblegringo
I don't get your point. Of course you don't get extra points for passes but it's how you open teams up with a bit work on the training ground rather than playing percentages all the time.
Rochdale opened Southend up by moving them out of position and creating holes. Their forward players drifted into pockets in between lines to pull defenders out of position (something incidentally we never ever do) and the speed of the passing ramped up as the opportunity arose.
It may have been against Southend but we didn't create anything remotely similar against Luton B team the other day with a squad that's just been relegated from the premier league.
Everyone who is saying it's against Southend should remember that I'm not highlighting a goal by Fulham or West Brom here but by Rochdale, a team who's budget is probably about 20 times less than ours (at least)