Jeez, did you get up on the wrong side of the bed or something? You said we don't benefit from taking so many shots from outside the box...yet we have scored a lot of goals from those shots compared to other teams. Since scoring goals is kinda the point of the game, I felt that we do benefit. Even if we have a low conversion rate, if we attempt enough shots, we will eventually score.
I would much rather we took on long range shots and scored 1 in 20 than passed the ball around endlessly just outside the box until we eventually lose possesion, a lot like Arsenal...well thats my opinion.
If you can have a crack, why not?
I thought it was you who must have gone up on the wrong side of the bed. That was the tone I felt when reading your reply.
My points are that:
1. We shoot a lot and miss a lot. Too bad conversion rate.
2. Yesterday we shot 29 times and of those shots we missed the goal 15 times. In other words we hit the goal 14 times and scored just 1 goal.
My observations regarding these stats were that we are generally too bad at shooting (and even more bad yesterday than generally spoken - we didn't score at all from long range then, but usually we score 0.4 goals per game from outside the 18 yard box). 29 shots is an awful lot too. Almost twice as many as our own average over the season so far.
Again:
-29 shots
-1 goal
Let those stats sink in and then tell me we were good at shooting last night.
