| We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers 17:23 - Mar 29 with 18818 views | DylanP |
Great performance today, for a really important win. But it is no surprise that our two goals came from defenders. I cannot remember a single shot from Frey or Armstrong and while both were influential, ultimately they are there to score goals. Both Willock and Chair had really good opportunities that they slashed at and skied it miles over the bar from close range. Again both had their moments, but in the end, balls in the back of the net speak loudest. We often talk about the elusive 20-goals-a-season striker but we aren't even close to having a 10-goals-a-season striker. Our top goalscorer this season is Chair with 5. That is pathetic.
This is the team that is going to keep us up and Marti is the man, but in the off-season job number 1 has to be to get a striker who can score goals. |  |
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| We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers on 15:15 - Apr 17 with 591 views | Northolt_Rs |
| We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers on 14:36 - Apr 16 by ParkRoyalR |
All our forwards (and I include the 10's as they are forwards) have struggled for goals this season, excluding Frey but Dykes & Armstrong's stats are abysmal as are Willock's & Chair's (although a return to fitness Willock offered up a couple of tap-ins for Chair which improved his previously worst ratio of goals per minutes played of all our Forwards).
Reasons why is the million dollar question?
Other than usual knee-jerk posters I'd suggest Ainsworth's half-season in charge, Cifuentes getting to know the squad (and in my opinion over-rotating and not using his subs effectively eg Frey comes on & Smyth goes off etc) amongst other lesser factors (points deficit, league position etc)
Also think a key reason was using Chair & Willock as wide wingers which they are not rather than playing them closer together (where they are more effective) and both players and Dykes (who cant beat a man on the turn) were far more effective under Warburton's system using Wing-Backs as made the 10's (particularly Chair) less predictable and easy to mark and Dykes the opportunity to face and attack crosses cut-back from the bye-line by the likes of Wallace, Moses etc who could actually cross rather than aimlessly whack the ball as hard as possible while running at full speed,
Easy to say Dykes is rubbish, Willock is unfit / disinterested and Chair is tired / distracted but ultimately this comes down to our formation, tactics and this seasons Managers.
Play Chair left, Willock in the middle and Smyth (or Andersen) wide to protect Dunne and our attacking play would improve as would reverting to Cifuentes preferred 4-3-3 formation as post transfer window we now have 3 midfielders who can play in a 3 (Field / Colback / Hadeyn) which we could'nt pre-window with Dozzell and Colback injured or banned. |
Smyth missing three sitters in the last two games - including an open goal - is nothing to do with the manager or tactics. He, like Dykes, Armstrong and Frey, just isn’t very good at scoring goals. It’s why we are where we are in the league. Hopefully, I’ll be able to eat these words when we beat PNE and these guys bag a few goals for us. |  |
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| We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers on 15:58 - Apr 17 with 517 views | kensalriser |
Smyth is actually the most frustrating player in the squad at the moment. Does the work, gets into good positions and almost always fluffs the final ball. That miss against Hull after he'd done the hard stuff was just absurd, had bags of time to adjust his position and both place and leather it and instead hits a beach ball shot any of us could have stopped. |  |
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| We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers on 16:32 - Apr 17 with 445 views | TheChef |
| We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers on 15:58 - Apr 17 by kensalriser |
Smyth is actually the most frustrating player in the squad at the moment. Does the work, gets into good positions and almost always fluffs the final ball. That miss against Hull after he'd done the hard stuff was just absurd, had bags of time to adjust his position and both place and leather it and instead hits a beach ball shot any of us could have stopped. |
Had far more time than he thought having rounded the keeper.
But by then Hull had two defenders on the line, inevitably they would have blocked his shot had he put his foot through the ball! |  |
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| We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers on 16:49 - Apr 17 with 416 views | BklynRanger |
| We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers on 16:32 - Apr 17 by TheChef |
Had far more time than he thought having rounded the keeper.
But by then Hull had two defenders on the line, inevitably they would have blocked his shot had he put his foot through the ball! |
He should have had a look, seen the coverage and squared it for Dykes to miss instead. Eejit. |  | | |
| We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers on 16:59 - Apr 17 with 389 views | TheChef |
| We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers on 16:49 - Apr 17 by BklynRanger |
He should have had a look, seen the coverage and squared it for Dykes to miss instead. Eejit. |
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