so we lose 10% posession playing this way (although that could be due to teething problems) any obvious atvantages you can forsee?

Another interesting stat scenario  is that of Matt Leckie. He seems to have improved his technique over the last year. 

Whereas other wing back Smith lost the ball due to poor control on 5 occasions and made 2 unforced passing errors, Leckie  lost the ball due to poor control on 1 occasion and made 0 unforced passing errors.

He also demonstrated 1 moment of exceptional skill.

Leckie had a 1v1 duel ledger of plus 4, from 24 contested. In those 1v1 contests he dribbled around players on 4 occasions.

His defensive passing accuracy was 93% with 13 completed passes.

Overall his passing accuracy over the whole pitch  was 80% from a total of 26 passes completed, after having mishit 5 attacking passes, usually under time and space pressure .

From 2 shots on goal he scored 1 goal from a headed corner. He has scored 2 goals his last 2 games.

From  passes directed to him, he was culpable for the unsuccessful pass on 2 occasions.


In the last year, exemplified in the UAE game, Leckie seems to have improved technically. 

I would think that for a lot of the game he tracked back to help defensively. Ange's tactical concept appeared to be to create a 3-4-2-1 in defence and then move to a 3-2-4-1 in attack.