Is the attack worse than last season?

johnjoeefc said:
4 goals in 7 games. 1 of them was a penalty. Average of a goal a game so far which is worse than last season.

For me there are not enough goals in the starting eleven that keeps getting picked. Alcaraz and McNeil can score goals should they not be getting picked?

Or is it as simple as that better full backs would enable spaces to open up to create more chances and as a result goals would come naturally?
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We had a period where we scored 1 goal from open play in about 4 months last season under Dyche. So not yet for me
 

Joey66 said:
Yes when DM came back his football was so fluent & yes it's now slow & pradantic- we show brief flashes- he needs to sort it out - onwards & upwards one would hope - my young nephew went to his first home game at BMD on Sunday loved tye stadium but not the performance however he's going bia coach to Sunderland next game ;)
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Hope he enjoys the experience and the result!;)
 
JobForTheMoyes said:
It is more a curates egg than a binary. We had much of the game against Spurs and it was our play in both boxes that undid us. It suggests we need marginal improvement rather than a massive overhaul like some are advocating for.

Until we finally see the first eleven in the pitch we cannot fully judge whether we are in a good position or not.
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The issue for me is that he hit on a very effective way to play last season. So much so that he got his best PPG at Everton. Given the squad he had last season compared to some of the squad's he's had previously that's a good achievement. However he just doesn't seem to have realised what he'd hit upon. We can see that by the signings he's made and the way we've played this season. We can also see it by his decision to play Keane at centre half instead of JOB. It's looking like a pretty binary choice he's made post last season. Sure he could reverse it but it would involve some big changes in his attitude. We'll see.
 
jceverton said:
The issue for me is that he hit on a very effective way to play last season. So much so that he got his best PPG at Everton. Given the squad he had last season compared to some of the squad's he's had previously that's a good achievement. However he just doesn't seem to have realised what he'd hit upon. We can see that by the signings he's made and the way we've played this season. We can also see it by his decision to play Keane at centre half instead of JOB. It's looking like a pretty binary choice he's made post last season. Sure he could reverse it but it would involve some big changes in his attitude. We'll see.
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It doesn’t work without Branthwaite, is the problem.
 

davek said:
It's a predictable and easily nullified attack.

Moyes will go more route one again VERY shortly.

That's because he and the 'impressive operators' made a complete bollocks of the transfer window by getting unsuitable attackers in to be a part of an attack with Grealish and Ndiaye in it.
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yes the window ( without a striker is stopping us from being on more pts)
 
We played our striker to his strengths when needed last season. We aren't now. No surprise to anyone who has watched Beto that he isn't scoring
 

Yes. The attack is worse than last season, because for all his limitations, Calvert-Lewin is significantly better than Beto and Barry is very much a work in progress. We’ve got 2 strikers who can’t score and cost north of £50m out of a limited transfer budget.
 
Vaughan said:
he’s missed at least 5 sitters this season
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They weren't all 1v1s, just nearly reaches and that header Vs palace from the top of my head. We played through balls to him and he started scoring loads, we've completely stopped in favour of cut backs and crosses and he's not even getting on the end of them
 

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