Like in past seasons we are yet again struggling to convert clear-cut goalscoring opportunities, and this is costing us in games.
We had three very good chances to score yesterday but failed to take any of them that would have got a well deserved point. Kuyt's effort early on was a good effort, and in blasting the ball with such pace he was unlucky that the ball didn't end up giving a team-mate another chance on goal, but I suppose he should have scored or at least made the keeper save it! Gerrard simply should have scored when he was clean through on goal, and should he have mis-hit the shot he most probably would have scored - a yard either side of Cech would have resulted in a goal. Then, Crouch's headed chance in injury time. Again, a mi**** would probably have meant a goal but it ended up looking more like a back pass to the keeper than an effort on goal!
So, why can't we take our chances when these fantastic opportunities crop up? Scoring two out of those three great chances would have resulted in us coming back from the Bridge with the three points and everyone would have been happy on here today! And looking at them again, we should have scored at least two of them, shouldn't we!?
Are we not technically sound in the finishing department? Are we not practising our finishing enough in training? Or are we just unlucky? I mentioned the other day in another thread I posted that we weren't getting the luck this season - is it continuing?
This isn't a post slagging off our players and coaching staff, it's just a few questions from a puzzled fan who can't get his head around why we aren't able to convert these wonderful chances that fall our way. All I know is that we MUST start scoring when the chances fall at our feet if we have any hopes of pushing Chelsea, the mancs and the other leading clubs all the way this season, 'cos continuing to fail in front of goal again will come back to haunt us meaning dropping more points when we need to be getting a run of successes together to get back amongst them.
In Kuyt, Bellamy, Fowler and Crouch we have a fantastic amound of talent which should provide plenty of goals - Kuyt has scored 71 goals in 101 games in Holland which proves he's a goalscorer, Bellamy finished one of the leading goalscorers of British strikers in the league last season, Crouch's scoring for fun once he puts on an England shirt, and Fowler will always score goals as long as he's given the opportunity. We also have others in midfield who'll score a fair share over a season too, so I just can't see why we aren't converting them so far.
It's probably a confidence thing, and once one goes in the rest will follow, but the longer we struggle the harder the mountain will be to climb back amongst the leaders. More missed chances just won't do, we need to get scoring against Newcastle on Wednesday night if we have hopes of pushing for the top places. Chelsea only had a few half chances yesterday yet they took it with Drogba's brilliant finish - a sign of a great team?!
Right, that's it from me - let's hope the killer touch returns on Wednesday and that we start hitting the target to score the goals needed to win games. We've a great squad now and the potential to be as good as we want to be under a superb manager, so with a crucial run of games ahead we need to be firing on all cylinders!
We had three very good chances to score yesterday but failed to take any of them that would have got a well deserved point. Kuyt's effort early on was a good effort, and in blasting the ball with such pace he was unlucky that the ball didn't end up giving a team-mate another chance on goal, but I suppose he should have scored or at least made the keeper save it! Gerrard simply should have scored when he was clean through on goal, and should he have mis-hit the shot he most probably would have scored - a yard either side of Cech would have resulted in a goal. Then, Crouch's headed chance in injury time. Again, a mi**** would probably have meant a goal but it ended up looking more like a back pass to the keeper than an effort on goal!
So, why can't we take our chances when these fantastic opportunities crop up? Scoring two out of those three great chances would have resulted in us coming back from the Bridge with the three points and everyone would have been happy on here today! And looking at them again, we should have scored at least two of them, shouldn't we!?
Are we not technically sound in the finishing department? Are we not practising our finishing enough in training? Or are we just unlucky? I mentioned the other day in another thread I posted that we weren't getting the luck this season - is it continuing?
This isn't a post slagging off our players and coaching staff, it's just a few questions from a puzzled fan who can't get his head around why we aren't able to convert these wonderful chances that fall our way. All I know is that we MUST start scoring when the chances fall at our feet if we have any hopes of pushing Chelsea, the mancs and the other leading clubs all the way this season, 'cos continuing to fail in front of goal again will come back to haunt us meaning dropping more points when we need to be getting a run of successes together to get back amongst them.
In Kuyt, Bellamy, Fowler and Crouch we have a fantastic amound of talent which should provide plenty of goals - Kuyt has scored 71 goals in 101 games in Holland which proves he's a goalscorer, Bellamy finished one of the leading goalscorers of British strikers in the league last season, Crouch's scoring for fun once he puts on an England shirt, and Fowler will always score goals as long as he's given the opportunity. We also have others in midfield who'll score a fair share over a season too, so I just can't see why we aren't converting them so far.
It's probably a confidence thing, and once one goes in the rest will follow, but the longer we struggle the harder the mountain will be to climb back amongst the leaders. More missed chances just won't do, we need to get scoring against Newcastle on Wednesday night if we have hopes of pushing for the top places. Chelsea only had a few half chances yesterday yet they took it with Drogba's brilliant finish - a sign of a great team?!
Right, that's it from me - let's hope the killer touch returns on Wednesday and that we start hitting the target to score the goals needed to win games. We've a great squad now and the potential to be as good as we want to be under a superb manager, so with a crucial run of games ahead we need to be firing on all cylinders!
forgot about that one - three clear chances.
Oh FFS.
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