EURO 2024: Slow ball movement is a shortcoming, it seems like the 'world' is wrong?

Specific weakness, pointed out: these teams are very slow to attack. Is that a characteristic that speaks to the cautiousness of the defensive style of play; or is it an ineffective way of attacking?

Italy won EURO 2020, and England is the number 1 candidate for the EURO 2024 championship, but they cannot, or do not dare to, attack? Professional statistics show that these are the two teams with the slowest attack speed in the entire group stage. When in possession, England can only move the ball forward at an average speed of 1.24 m/s, ranking last in this statistic. Right above England is Italy (1.34 m/s).

England seem to be suffering a lot of injustice.

In fact, this statistic is quite vague. It seems that the British press is caught up in the frenzy of criticizing their own team. Of the 6 slowest attacking teams in EURO (according to the statistics just mentioned), there are 5 "bogeymen". Spain, Germany, Portugal are all in this list (the remaining team is Slovakia). On the contrary, of the 3 teams with the fastest ball speed, 2 teams have been eliminated (Poland, Czech Republic, the remaining team is Georgia). With the same statistical method, when looking at the English Premier League, people see that the team with the slowest ball speed (1.38 m/s) is the great champion Man.City!

Obviously, football cannot be a numbers game, nor can football be a slave to statistics. Nowadays, high-level teams require the ball to be deployed "from the back", meaning that when the ball is in possession, the goalkeeper must pass it short (of course depending on the situation and specific circumstances) to ensure that the ball remains at his team's feet. Not only the long kick from the goalkeeper, teams with simple playing styles, whenever the ball is in possession, just kick it long towards the striker, of course, are recorded as having a high "speed of the ball". Whether the attack is easy to score or not is another matter.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/euro-2024-len-bong-cham-la-mot-khuet-diem-hinh-nhu-thien-ha-nham-roi-185240628204721524.htm