Why can we not score against the opposition? Now I do not get to many games so I do not get a 3D view of the play so to be fair this is a question I personally have not got a clue to the global answer, but lets have a look at the stats. (From the BBC)
Against Villa, away we had 19 shots on goal with 12 on target, yielding 2 goals.
Again away but to Wigan, we had 18 shots, 10 on target with no success.
Home to Blackburn, 28 shots, 15 on target resulting in 1 goal, again resulting in no success.
And the rest:
QPR(H) 21/15 goals 1 W
Fulham(A) 17/9 goals 0 L
City(H) 17/9 goals 1 D
Chelsea(A) 9/3 goals 2 W
Swansea(H) 18/10 goals 0 D
WBA(A) 17/7 goals 2 W
Norwich(H) 25/15 goals 1 D
Scum(H) 14/8 goals 1 D
Bitters(A) 15/9 goals 2 W
Wolves(H) 14/6 goals 2 W
Spurs(A) 5/2 goals 0 L
Stoke(A) 20/11 goals 0 L
Bolton(H) 17/9 goals 3 W
Arsenal(A) 13/8 goals 2 W
Sunderland(H) 11/4 goals 1 D
Total 298/162 goals 21
(Sorry I can not format the table function)
So if the BBC are correct, in the 18 League games so far, (one shy of half of the season), we have had 298 shots, and 168 of those have been on target.
That means that on average that every other shot is on target, not that bad, but,
Those 168 shots on target have yielded only 21 goals, that means it is taking us 6.48 shots on target to get just one goal.
Dreadful I think you will agree. But why is this?
Are we relying far too much on Suarez to get the goals, is he too greedy? Can't see tis too much as we are at least getting shots on target.
Is Carroll any good? Are the other players at fault?, or is it just bad luck?
Are the opposition just riding their luck, are they defending in numbers that just means there are too many players between the ball and the goal? I just don't know. Other teams can break these "lesser" teams down, but why can't we. Is it the players, manager, or the Home support? as our away form is not too bad.
Now a depressing fact.
The Scums last 3 games.
QPR(A) 18/12 goals 2 W
Fulham(A) 14/12 goals 5 W
Wigan(H) 17/9 goals 5 W
Total 49/33 goals 12 which equals 2.75 on target shots yields a goal, our stats for the same teams,
QPR(H) 21/15 goals 1 W
Fulham(A) 17/9 goals 0 L
Wigan(A) 18/10 goals 0 D
Total 56/34 goals 1 which makes depressing reading MORE SHOTS, MORE SHOTS on TARGET and of 34 shots on target only 1 goal.
So what is going wrong?
Edit: Just seen RLB stat attack in the C.Adam's player thread:- Coincidence honest.
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