"They certainly aren't passing the ball as they were at the start of the season, " says Ritchie.
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Egypt finished the game in style, passing the ball around beautifully and toying with a stretched and by now demoralised Cameroon side.
"He's become a better basketball player and he's honestly putting the effort in to be a better teammate as far as passing the ball and getting everyone involved, " Keatts said.
It was Frimpong and Kightly who combined for Wolves' equaliser, with the on-loan midfielder flicking the ball over his head to escape his markers before quickly passing the ball to the Wolves winger.
At the breakdown, I don't want to see the scrum-half digging the ball out and passing the ball three yards to three forwards who then get smashed by an Australian defence who are ready to cream them.
Marco Rossi doubled the lead in the 53rd minute, passing the ball through Castellazzi's legs after evading the hapless Ziegler, who gave away his second penalty of the night in the 75th minute for a foul on Sokratis Papastathopoulos.
Spain had possessed the ball for roughly two-thirds of its games, turning each match into a high-class version of keep-ball, and in the process, becoming the first team to turn passing the ball into a form of defense: Like a clock-eating drive in football, if Spain has the ball, its opponent can't score and the Spanish keep the ball so well that they barely give up any chances, let alone goals.
"I want more speed from them, and the passing of the ball will have to be greatly improved, " says Lissek, who coached Germany from 1982 to its bronze-medal place in this year's World Cup.
On a pitch resembling the trenches of World War One, the match was a battle, with passing near impossible - the ball simply stopping in the mud.
The Huskies kept passing up shots and turning the ball over at an alarming rate.
The home side were also denied the chance to build up any sustained pressure as the Baggies used their passing ability to hold on to the ball and take the sting out of a United side who have now dropped 10 points so far this season.
Hawkeye's prediction - another problematic element to all of this - showed, arcade-game style, the ball passing over the stumps and the West Indian supporters went crazy.
Spain began at an incredibly fast pace from the opening kickoff, advancing the ball with its pinball passing and pressing high up the field when the Italians regained possession.
In its opening 1-1 draw with France here, England's poor passing meant the team controlled the ball for just 35% of the game.
There was an intense performance from Malawian rap act NiC, a duo who volleyed words back and forth like Sampras and Ivanisevic in their prime, deciding not to bother with those fancy passing shots and just belting the ball at each other.
Laulala was again the catalyst, making the half-break before passing to fellow Kiwi Paul Tito who wisely shipped the ball on to his waiting winger.
Smith, who owns almost all of West Virginia's passing records, gets rid of the ball quickly, but has had some accuracy problems.
Veteran Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu is cut from the same cloth as his Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger in his firm belief in keeping the ball on the ground and attacking in fluent short-passing moves.
We tried to move the ball about but our passing was not slick enough.
They must also work together: because only two players may score, and dribbling and carrying the ball are forbidden, passing is essential.
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That tactic, in which players ceaselessly switched positions, creating new passing angles that allowed them to circulate the ball at exhilarating speed, was devastating in the 1970s, when almost every team used man-to-man marking.
Captain Peter Ndlovu scored the goal with just 10 minutes gone, slotting low into the far corner after the Eritrean defence gave the ball away with sloppy passing in front of their own goal.
Opponents usually run themselves into exhaustion chasing the ball, which allows passing channels to open, giving the Spanish strikers a relentless series of chances to deliver lethal strikes at the goal that leave fans gasping with wonder.
The conditions meant it was a day for keeping the ball on the deck, which ought to have suited two sides whose passing football has been much praised in the first quarter of the season.
Also, new passing icons indicate when receivers are looking for the ball and ready to make a play, so digital QBs will need to be aware and only make the pass when the receiver is ready.
We were giving the ball away, and they were passing it well.
However, the home side could not build on their bright start, with both teams packing men behind the ball and struggling to establish any passing momentum.
From the kick-off the Reds worked the ball up the other end of the field, Jason Webber making for a gap before passing inside to Martin Crompton.
Aaron Rodgers, having an off night, had to put the ball up 39 times to amass 223 passing yards.
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