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You've mostly been careful on this thread, and are certainly not one to kick off unnecessarily but, given the contribution directly above, can we agree that you got this spectacularly wrong?

Well, my observations indicate that he touched the ball far more frequently than yours. We did only have c28% possession, so this will be reflected in all our passing stats, but he played deep midfield when Stephens went off, and seemed to do it pretty well in the second half. Can't remember him...

In the early part of last season, all three of our CMs had excellent distance covered stats. I'd doubt this has changed significantly in the interim period, but willing to be proved wrong if anyone's got any evidence for it.

Are you getting this information from a statistical source, or from your observations?

I really like your assessment of Propper, especially re half turn, tight spaces

I agree with the thrust of the OP's point about Propper's anonymity in the first half, although I like him as a player. Duffy, however, was excellent in the first half and it was the combination of this and Southampton's finishing ineptitude that meant we went in at half time only one down. We...