[Albion] Why can't ANY of our players shoot straight?

[Deadly Danson]

Not another thread about signing a striker but there has to be a reason why no one at the club can shoot straight. Lampety, Lallana, March, Veltman, MacAllister, Maupay, Moder, Trossard, Gross, Welbeck Cucurella, Bissouma etc etc. None of them are bad players, most of them can clearly shoot in training and during the warm ups but every single shot is scuffed or flies wide or over the bar. It's extraordinary. There has to be a reason. Clearly they would practice in training, clearly it's not Potter telling them to miss and presumably they all know to get their head over the ball and aim for the goal but something happens to players when they join us. Is it just confidence, nerves or are they really just useless? Honestly, if more players chipped in with goals, the pressure on the strikers would ease and I'm sure they would then score more.

None of this is new but it's a mystery to me.

 

[One Love]

Don't know about in training but in the warmups they're just as bad aren't they?

 

[Acker79]

There were plenty of times they shot straight... Straight at a defender.

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

There were plenty of times they shot straight... Straight at a defender.

Indeed, with a fair few going straight over the cross bar as well....

 

[Weststander]

They do, from 22 yards, by the bucketload.

And they’re all awful at it. Throwing away possession, allowing Krul to waste another 90 seconds.

EPL goals are scored in the 18 yard box.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Seems the more time they have to shoot, the more basic technique goes right out the window

 

[timbha]

Teams like Norwich & Burnley pack the box and get bodies in the way of shots.
Liverpool, City, etc don’t let you have the ball near enough to the goal to shoot.

Good teams find a way around the above. We just keep doing the same thing.

Our shooting is either a wild powerful shot, or a gentle effort straight at the keeper.

Krul played well but probably made no more decent saves than he usually does in a match.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Watching the shooting in the warm up should full you full of dread

It’s comedic !!!!

 

[OzMike]

It has to be placed perfectly in the top or bottom left hand corner, so close to missing that it can't be saved.........................or misses, usually.

 

[el punal]

Don't know about in training but in the warmups they're just as bad aren't they?

Don’t they have a practice goal to aim at on the right/left of the real goal in pre-match warm up? That would probably account for most of the shots in the match going ten feet wide in the actual game.