In the Confederations Cup, USA has no players in the top 65 in terms of pass completion rate. http://www.fifa.com/confederationscup/statistics/players/passes.html Per my counting: 66. Onyewu 74% 81. DeMerit - 71% 90. Kljestan - 68% 103. Dempsey - 66% 108. Bornstein - 65% 109. Donovan - 65% 110. Clark - 65% 7th to last: Altidore - 45% 3rd to last: Casey - 38% For me this is where the gulf in quality exists, in these numbers.
Re: USA Passing Statistics It's bad but it's not that bad. We've played 90 minutes a man down, and during that time period our passing options were more limited than they were for teams playing with 11 man.
Re: USA Passing Statistics Other teams have played a really weakened US. The Egypt game will have changed a lot of the numbers, I suspect.
Re: USA Passing Statistics I watched Chad Pennington for 7 years. Completion percentage isn't everything.
These are FIFA's passing statistics for the match against Egypt, only. Unfortunately, our pass completion rates aren't a great deal higher even without the man disadvantage. One thing I should note is that Onyewu's numbers appear to have been much worse in this match than they were in the previous two matches. Demerit's numbers surprised me. Passes Attempted (+ Pass Completion Rate) Dempsey - 56 (75%) Spector - 47 (63.83) Donovan - 46 (67.39) Clark - 41 (73.17) Bradley - 38 (71.05) Bornstein - 38 (68.42) Demerit - 38 (76.32) Onyewu - 35 (62.86) Altidore - 27 (51.85) Davies - 19 (42.11) Feilhaber - 10 (30) Casey - 2 (100) Long Passes Attempted (+ Completion Rate) Spector - 11 (45.45) Clark - 9 (77.78) Donovan - 8 (62.5) Dempsey - 7 (85.71) Bradley - 7 (57.14) Bornstein - 4 (75) Onyewu - 4 (50) Demerit - 3 (33.33) Altidore - 2 (100) Davies - 2 (0) Medium Passes Attempted (+ Completion Rate) Dempsey - 35 (71.43) Demerit - 28 (82.14) Bornstein - 27 (62.96) Donovan - 26 (80.77) Spector - 25 (80) Onyewu - 25 (64) Bradley - 23 (78.26) Clark - 23 (69.57) Altidore - 17 (35.29) Davies - 12 (58.33) Feilhaber - 6 (33.33) Short Passes Attempted (+ Completion Rate) Dempsey - 14 (78.57) Donovan - 12 (41.67) Spector - 11 (45.45) Clark - 9 (77.78) Altidore - 8 (75) Bradley - 8 (62.5) Bornstein - 7 (85.71) Demerit - 7 (71.43) Onyewu - 6 (66.67) Davies - 5 (20) Feilhaber - 4 (25) Casey - 2 (100)