[Albion] Current lack of goals

[Berty23]

I think it is just one of those things. The actual act of scoring is quite random. Look at welbz vs Roma. Missed two very good headed chances away and all he had to do with a header chance yesterday was touch it to deflect around goalie but missed the ball. But then banged one top corner and finished a far far harder chance at palace.

Arsenal went on a run abound Christmas time where they simply couldn’t score. The night we beat spurs they lost 2-0 at home to West Ham. They had thirty shots. In the cup they battered Liverpool but simply couldn’t score. The media were trying to figure what was going wrong. Then they suddenly just started scoring for no apparent reason. Not making better chances - just scoring. They had 20 shots with 5 big chances vs Liverpool but missed all of them. Lost 0-2. Vs palace they had 21 shots. 6 big chances. Won 5-0. At home to West Ham they had 5 big chances missed all of them lost 0-2. With fewer shots but one more big chance they won 6-0 away.

I fully expect us to do the same.

 

[Stat Brother]

I feel the thread title is somewhat misleading.

Shirley it should read:-

'That short run of scoring goals - what was that all about?'

 

[Coldwaltham Seagull]

A discussion focused on the number of chances created, and missed, for headed goals. And nobody's mentioned Hinshelwood? I'd add that to Mitoma, March and Pedro. Plus Ferguson out of form. All adds up to 'no mystery why we aren't scoring as many as we did at the start of the season'.
I'd say.

Agree that the loss of Hinshelwood isn't being spoken about enough. Not on the level of Mitoma, Pedro et al. but brings a real dynamism to the team

 

[A1X]

Welbeck is great but he’s never been a poacher type who will stick them in for fun. Evan could do that but he’s lost his mojo. Our most instinctive finisher is Pedro but he’s in the treatment room.

 

[tstanbur]

A discussion focused on the number of chances created, and missed, for headed goals. And nobody's mentioned Hinshelwood? I'd add that to Mioma, March and Pedro. Plus Ferguson out of form. All adds up to 'no mystery why we aren't scoring as many as we did at the start of the season'.
I'd say.

He has been mentioned. Post #6

 

[highflyer]

Fair do's. I did look, but missed it.

 

[Hiheidi]

This is surprising!

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

This is surprising!

Suprising - yes and no.

We are just a bit lacklustre in front of goal and make it easy for keepers a lot of the time. That Burnley home game was a classic example. Trafford has had one half decent game all season and it was that one. But even then, they were all efforts you would expect a PL keeper to make.

The Sheff Utd and Fulham home games were similar.

 

[HeaviestTed]

This is surprising!

Shot on target includes kicking the ball directly at the goalies gloves at a leisurely pace, would love to see “shot on target, not at goalie” which probably translates to goal %.

 

[The Optimist]

This is surprising!

Maybe we concentrate too much on making sure we hit the target. Perhaps aim for the corner would result in a lower accuracy but also more goals.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Maybe we concentrate too much on making sure we hit the target. Perhaps aim for the corner would result in a lower accuracy but also more goals.

I think we have said precisely the opposite in other goal droughts.

 

[Hiheidi]

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

This is surprising!

The shots we take are accurate. It's just that there are 9 opponents in the way by the time we take them.

 

[Jeremiah]

The shots we take are accurate. It's just that there are 9 opponents in the way by the time we take them.

Or they are pea rollers with the pace of Lallana !

 

[The Fits]

1%?!
1 in a hundred?!
Good grief.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Suprising - yes and no.

We are just a bit lacklustre in front of goal and make it easy for keepers a lot of the time. That Burnley home game was a classic example. Trafford has had one half decent game all season and it was that one. But even then, they were all efforts you would expect a PL keeper to make.

The Sheff Utd and Fulham home games were similar.

Amd Burnley away to be fair. A number of our shots were either side footed with little venom or were straight at the keeper.

 

[Stat Brother]

1%?!
1 in a hundred?!
Good grief.

Yeah, I too thought it would be much worse, as well.

 

[Exilegull]

What are our lads doing in training. Oh right theyre busy amputating each other

 

[um bongo molongo]

Time to resurrect the Need a Striker threads

 

[Hiheidi]

Time to resurrect the Need a Striker threads

It's quite interesting to see our lack of presence in this table of the non big six teams. So, be interesting to see what we have in mind for next season.