World Cup passing through 6/16

Here's a summary of passing in games that didn't end in a tie so far:

	Cmplt	Incl	Cmpl%		Cmplt	Incl	Cmpl%
Denmark	221	87	71.8	Holland	470	85	84.7
Greece	316	115	73.3	South Korea	306	110	73.6
Nigeria	228	99	69.7	Argentina	477	87	84.6
Uruguay	312	100	75.7	South Africa	452	104	81.3
Switzerland	183	96	65.6	Spain	629	110	85.1
Ghana	323	95	77.3	Serbia	337	94	78.2
Cameroon	360	127	73.9	Japan	257	109	70.2
Australia	422	78	84.4	Germany	561	66	89.5
Slovenia	387	105	78.7	Algeria	348	100	77.7
North Korea	205	78	72.4	Brazil	604	88	87.3
Chile	394	110	78.2	Honduras	193	116	62.5

Winners	4274	1051	80.3	Losers	3711	1108	77.0
		% Pass	52.5			% Pass	47.5

The winning team has completed 80.3% of their passes to the losers 77.0%, which I don't think tells us very much. However, the winning teams attempted 10% more passes than the losers, which probably does mean something (more on that later.)

Individual passing is dominated by South Africa, who have played two games:

First	Last	Country	Passes
Teko	Modise	South Africa	116
Siboniso	Pa Gaxa	South Africa	113
Samir	Handanovic	Slovenia	110
Kagisho	Dikgacoi	South Africa	108
Danny	Shittu	Nigeria	102
Lucas	Neill	Australia	101
Danny	Shittu	Nigeria	98
Taye	Taiwo	Nigeria	98
Francisco	Rodriguez	Mexico	95
Diego	Forlan	Uruguay	92

South Africa significantly outpassed Uruguay in their loss, for what that's worth; against Mexico, they were outpassed 2-1.

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