They demand fluency on their own terms.
They lacked fluency in attack, cohesion in midfield and composure in defence, never more so than in the opening stages when Palace came at them with pace and purpose.
They include fluency, or the ability to think of many ideas rapidly; flexibility, the capacity to use ideas and tools in unusual ways; and originality, the capacity to think of novel ideas and products.
They lacked fluency and urgency as the visitors easily kept control and the game was a lot more comfortable for Spurs than the scoreline suggested.
Barcelona's preparations were hampered when the midfielder Xavi was ruled out for a fortnight with a leg injury, but they hardly wanted for fluency as they took the lead after 13 minutes.
Yet even they could not find fluency, and when they tried to accelerate, both fell.
But Arsenal could not find their fluency – they were slow and flat, and it was surprising to see how few clearcut chances they created.
But they do reward fluency and charm.
Executed with preposterous technical fluency, they could easily be by entirely different hands.
Here, they found a fluency and cohesion that enabled them to bring the best out of each other.
