Leeds United Chat • Scoring goals
You need to score goals, you need players that score goals.
You can have 70% of the ball, 20 shots every week but at the end of the day that means nothing if you dont score.
So i did a bit of reading, the last 3 teams to win this league.
Newcastle, Wolves and Norwich.
Between them they averaged 86 goals, thats a goals per game of 1.86.
Last season we scored 73 goals, 9 less then Wolves who scored the least of the 3.
This season we have scored 13 goals in 9 games, thats a goals per game average of 1.44 per game.
Over a season thats 66 goals roughly.
Far below the average of the previous 3 league champions and 16 below the lowest of those teams.
Norwich had Pukki banging in 20 odd goals, Newcastle had Gayle getting 20 with Mirtovic, Murphy and Perez chipping in over 20 goals between them, Matt Ritchie scoring 15 goals etc.
Wolves had no 20 goal striker but they had Jota getting close, Cavaleiro, Costa, Bonatini chipping in, the 2 wing backs scoring nearly 10 between them, Neves and the cbs to.
How many of our players can we rely on?
Unless Paddy becomes a 20 goal man then we are relying on Eddie.
If that cant work then we need to be like Wolves, we need lots chipping in.
But how many of ours have that final quality? Genuine question.
Our cbs arent going to score many at set pieces so thats them out.
Phillips is never going to rifle in shots from 30 yards like Neves used to so thats him.
Forshaw hasnt scored for years, thats no accident.
Dallas and Ali may chip in with a few.
Harrison ? Roberts? Shacks?
Hernandez had the season of his life last year, at 34 can he do that again?
Klich the same, can he repeat last seasons explots?
Can Costa find the form he showed in the past?
The problem is that unless Paddy scores 20 goals we are relying on Eddie and i actually think some may be disappointed if we did.
We need lots to chip in and atm i cant see where those goals will come from.