You'd think in The Year of Our Lord 2022 people still wouldn't consider Possession a good sign of performance.
There are numerous examples of this being a bad idea or of great possession clubs having consistently bad or average performances (Man U this year for example). And yes, if you're absorbing pressure intentionally the opposing team, positioned for most of the match outside your box but in possession, is going to be taking shots. Yes, they are going to being passing more than you. And, because you're hitting them on the counter or breaking with longer passes, your pass completion percentage is going to be lower because while you're trying to make decisive passes in attack, their passes are short back and forths between players trying to break your line.
This is nothing new and yet some people still don't get it. Or they choose not to consider it since it goes against their little hatetrain.
Some perspective. For all the injuries we have, all the squad depth issues and player issues (I know RUS loves Sandro and thinks because he starts for one of the worst Brazil squads in the last three decades [hint: he doesn't Marcelo does] that somehow means he's elite but it doesn't) we stand with only one more league losses than Chelsea has in the EPL. We have the same amount of goals scored as #4 in the EPL, Arsenal, with ten goals allowed LESS, we have 8 more points than Conte in Tottenham (with one more match played than them) with 4 less goals scored and 8 less goals allowed than them. Tottenham and Arsenal also both have eleven losses, we have six. Almost half of each of their losses. We have more points and a better record than Barca at #2 in the Lol Liga with 3 less goals allowed and 9 less goals scored with them only having one less match than us. Is this crazy? In a more free-flowing, less defensive league than Serie A, they should have more goals scored and are #2 in their league.
Nobody is happy with 3rd or 4th in a vacuum. But to act like we're 4th right now, one point out from Napoli in 3rd, with Chiesa hurt, with McKennie hurt, with Locatelli hurt, with Ronaldo abandoning the project after the first match of the season and ZERO time for us to find a suitable replacement, with Bonucci having injuries issues, with Sandro regressing so poorly Pellegrini is the defacto starter is not just being stupid it has to be somebody being purposely dishonest. There is no way people can carry on like they do, knowing all the things I just listed are facts, and act like 4th or 3rd isn't better than missing Champions League.
And thats the crux of it. Some of these posters would PREFER nay WANT to miss Champions League so that Allegri can catch heat rather than make Champions League during this horrible run of luck season. They want that. They would actually celebrate us MISSING Champions League because they could dance and be happy that Allegri failed.
Some supporters those ones are.