I have to give credit to Scoham who brought this to my attention on another thread. I thought it deserved a thread of its' own.
Discuss ...............
http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/ClubShooting/0,,10794~201025,00.html
Club ON OFF HW
Peterborough 55 49 3
Southampton 48 53 3
Dagenham & R 38 49 3
Leyton Orient 46 38 3
Brentford 35 48 3
Huddersfield 32 50 8
Oldham 40 40 3
Carlisle 43 33 4
Notts County 42 31 3
Yeovil Town 38 31 1
Bristol Rovers 37 31 5
Bournemouth 35 29 2
Swindon Town 33 28 0
MK Dons 30 31 3
Colchester 32 28 2
Hartlepool 32 28 2
Walsall 32 27 3
Charlton 22 37 3
Brighton 23 34 4
Sheffield Wed 27 28 1
Plymouth 22 32 1
Exeter City 29 23 1
Rochdale 27 22 3
Tranmere 15 33 0
On target Off target Hit Woodwork
Comments
Lack of creativity and a somewhat negative approach may have something to do with it.
But then you could argue that Southampton's strikers are far worse than ours given that they have scored just 5 times from 48 attempts on target (1 in almost 10) as opposed to our 7 from 22 (1 in 3).
Exactly, haven't they gone something like 7 hours without a goal? At least we're scoring.
Yes but we haven't actually scored more than one goal in any of our last six matches and only five in total so we can't exactly say we're prolific. Southampton are clealry creating a lot more but missing them whereas we are only actually averaging 3 shots on target per game. Or one every 30 minutes.
Benson won't do much outside the box but we have to give him good and regular service. Bit like Forster last season, didn't look great but he never had many clear chances.
Sodje is similar in some ways, can look poor outside the box but with the right service he can score a few, his record with us shows that.
Abbott has a decent record in his career. He's again not going to create a chance for himself and needs good crosses and passes into the box.
Anyinsah far too early go judge but he seems useful so far and different to the others.
We just seem to lack ideas or a final ball, that something extra in our play to get in a position to shoot.
I sometimes wonder if the players get told to have a shot, it seems they are all too cautious. Take Chelseas 4th against Blackpool as an example, not a great goal but shows that if you have a shot things can happen, if you dont shoot you will never score
After losing 3-0 at home to Bristol Rovers this can only mean one thing.....and that is a narrow on the edge of your seat hard fought 1-0 Charlton win ;-)
so you think we are passing backwards instead of forwards because the rest of the team don't rate their strikers? we are consistently going full 90 mins with creating 2 or 3 chances and half of them will be half baked chances at that. Forgetting the JPT, has Benson been given even 1 clear goal scoring chance with us? He seems to make runs and pop up in the right places but the ball doesn't follow him, what else can he do? It's the final ball / killer pass that just doesn't exist in this team and our biggest downfall. I don't really believe at league one quality level and the physical nature of the league that strikers should be relied or expected to create thier own chances regularly. Our defence is certainly promotion capable, just going forward that will stop us progressing.
Say we start to twig that if you give Benson chances he will convert a high percentage- you'll see more chances created, I promise.
The biggest problem is we are not attacking as a team enough.
When going forward we seem to attack in pairs sometimes there is 3 players in an offensive position we need to flood the area with atleast 4 or sometimes 5 in a more attack minded formation
Benson and abbott are collecting the ball with their back to goal with half the pitch behind them .
When they do it should be laid off and they move along with supporting midfielders
From what I've seen (all home games except the JPT) the actual conversion rate of chances created by our strikers has been better than recent seasons. The problem in my eyes is that we are not creating the chances for the strikers to convert.
Francis - Doherty - Llera - Jackson
---------------Semedo----------------
Wagstaff-------------------------Reid
----------------Martin-----------------
----------Benson - Abbott------------
That's what I would go for on Saturday, with an emphasis on attack.
On the formation, we played a diamond midfield in a few games last season. Was with 4 CMs rather than wingers though. I remember Dowie trying it with wingers once but I think it was far too attacking and we struggled?
Nifty wingers yes but Reid and Wagstaff are more goalscorers than crossers/creators. Martin doesn't seem the type to get plenty of crosses in either.
I agree with that lineup apart from Llera. Anyone but Miguel please!
I don't think we have much of a choice until Dailly and Fortune are fit!