The way Ange plays it very much is necessary as it draws the forwards into advanced pressing positions which allows us to play around them.I agree with you and I'm enjoying the football we are playing but we can still play good football without passing back across the goal so often. It's not necessary it's just as easy to pass it forward if you move into a position but we do it 4 or 5 times with the opposition closing in and the the panic passes creep in.
A forward pass instead will not create the same angles.
And I didn’t see us panic once. Yes we got caught in possession a few times but panic?? Far from it.