Football is a team sport that requires players with different abilities and styles of play. As for midfielder, this role needs the most technically skilful players.
Great dribbling, high football IQ and accurate passing are a necessity when you play as the brain of your team.
However, for Cesc Fabregas who was a great midfielder himself, the pass completion rate is not an indicator of a good player in this position. The best quality is to play forward.
Fabregas said: "For a midfielder, the best quality that he must have is to play forward. There are all these stats nowadays – 100% pass completion – but show me the clips of their passing. Are they passing to a centre-back, a close midfielder, or are they splitting the lines and making things happen?
