Baldseagull
Well-known member
Can I burst your even bigger bubble, how many games have we played this season when we have had less than ten shots on target, that'll be most of the games we have played. If we had done this, if we had done that, if whatever. Drawing people out of position so that we can exploit the gaps they leave behind them as the opposition become as bored as the paying public. It doesn't happen like that, do you remember the Reading game and as I have now seen throughout the season a change in strategy of the opposition pressing quickly on our defenders as we try to pass across the back four creating errors from our own players. Tippy tappy from a physically small Spanish team was the correct strategy at the time, but times have moved on and new approaches have developed and our attempt to emulate such a style is poor and unproductive.
Shooting on or off target has nothing to do with the process that brought the shooting opportunity about, it isn't the style of play that caused Ulloa to hit a penalty kick into the roof of the North Stand.
If you check shooting stats we have more shots at goal in total, and more shots on target than Reading, and have had more shots at goal in total than Burnley, but they have shot on target about 30 times more than us this season. As Oscar has been saying all season, we need to be better with the chances we create.