Celtic’s style of football under Brendan Rodgers is predominantly possession based and it has been very successful over the last two seasons.
Rodgers won a league and Scottish Cup double in his first season back at Celtic and now, on the brink of a treble, the Hoops boss is on his way to creating more history at the club.
Celtic dominate every domestic fixture and that is largely down to their superb passing ability.
And to prove just how effective and accurate Celtic’s passing is, the CIES Football Observatory has ranked the Parkhead club against the rest of the world and where the Bhoys sit against the likes of Man United and Spurs is quite something.
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According to the CIES Football Observatory, Celtic’s passing accuracy of 88.9% is not only the best in Scotland but is ranked 9th best in the world.
In order, only PSG, Bayern Munich, FC Nordsjælland, Real Madrid, Man City, Marseille, Flamengo and Juventus rank higher than the Bhoys.
Champions League finalists Inter Milan (88.8%) come in 10th place, and Europa League finalists Man United (85.8%) are 93rd, while Tottenham (85.1%) are in a huge 132nd place.
Celtic’s rivals Rangers with a passing accuracy of 84.8% come in at 160th behind Slovan Bratislava, Lommel in the Belgian second tier and Odense in the Danish second division.
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Celtic ranked best in the world for possession with Rangers miles behind
With passing accuracy comes ball possession and with Celtic ranked one of the best passers in the world the Parkhead club leads everyone in this metric as well.
An average ball possession of 70.8% puts Celtic number one in the world ahead of PSG, Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
Rangers, at 60.7% come in at a lowly 31st place behind the likes of Lillestrom in the Norwegian second division and Tomoki Iwata’s Birmingham City in England’s third tier.