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#636036 09/11/20 03:58 PM
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Gonna sound a bit crazy to say this but does anyone else get the feeling that we are so wasteful in the final third?

For a team that creates so many attacking opportunities do we take enough of them?

I always get the feeling that any time an opponent attacks us there is a good chance it ends up in a goal, even if they have 3 shots in said game, whereas we can have 20 shots/attacks and nothing happens? I get this feeling quite a lot, just wondering about people's thoughts on this?

Watching the city game I saw Jota mis-kick 2 shots in great positions, other players struggling to lay off simple through balls which would have resulted in shots on goal, Trent with close up shot which hits the keeper etc.

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Originally Posted By jim_beam
Gonna sound a bit crazy to say this but does anyone else get the feeling that we are so wasteful in the final third?

For a team that creates so many attacking opportunities do we take enough of them?

I always get the feeling that any time an opponent attacks us there is a good chance it ends up in a goal, even if they have 3 shots in said game, whereas we can have 20 shots/attacks and nothing happens? I get this feeling quite a lot, just wondering about people's thoughts on this?

Watching the city game I saw Jota mis-kick 2 shots in great positions, other players struggling to lay off simple through balls which would have resulted in shots on goal, Trent with close up shot which hits the keeper etc.


Jota did have a poor game yesterday, not sure if he was in his best position on the right

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We probably are but were we to have a clinical striker we might create less chances so swings and roundabouts


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Originally Posted By Stanley Park
We probably are but were we to have a clinical striker we might create less chances so swings and roundabouts


Yeah, we have 3 creative forwards, if we just had a finisher who waited for the ball to finish, we would probably score less goals as a team.

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Stan is right we don't have a lethal no9 like Lewandowski or Kane so we miss a lot more chances, it's the consequence of playing wingers and no10s as strikers, this is why I get upset everytime I think about the way we missed out on Werner, imagine him playing centre flanked by Salah and Mane, he would be scoring a lot more as he is natural no9. Jota has been fantastic so far but he is also a winger.


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Good points put forward... I guess that how we play with workhorses rather than polished fancy players is why maybe it looks a bit raw to the eye but I ain't complaining cause it's serving us well up to now.

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thought mane wasnt selfish enough against city. couple times he had the chance to shoot but choice to cross instead.

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Originally Posted By Snakeye
Stan is right we don't have a lethal no9 like Lewandowski or Kane so we miss a lot more chances, it's the consequence of playing wingers and no10s as strikers, this is why I get upset everytime I think about the way we missed out on Werner, imagine him playing centre flanked by Salah and Mane, he would be scoring a lot more as he is natural no9. Jota has been fantastic so far but he is also a winger.


Watching Werner for Chelsea, he has not over impressed for me, he disappears allot, we need someone more involved in the attack, the fact we have 3 attackers interlinking makes if difficult for the opposition to defend, having Werner as the out and out striker means teams could just mark him out, isolating Mane & Salah as they would be keeping more on the wing areas.

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Werner is playing on the left for chelsea and still scoring, If he was playing centrally in our team I feel he would score more.

Last edited by Snakeye; 11/11/20 12:10 AM.

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