Blame the midfield

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....doesn’t always tell a story;

Kendall 229 app 21 goals
Harvey 320 app 18 goals
Reid 159 app 8 goals
Bracewell 95 app 7 goals

Total 803 apps 54 goals.

....dreadful goal returns but count their medals.
We played two up top that would chip 40-50 a season
 

We played two up top that would chip 40-50 a season

....absolutely. The point I’m making is that you don’t necessarily need goals from your Central midfielders. Reid, Bracewell, Harvey and Kendall have poor goal returns but there was healthy numbers elsewhere (even from CBs like Hurst and Mountfield).

I think @2xpetes simplifies the issue too much, especially highlighting players like Gomes and Delph who are never going to contribute many goals.

Its safe to say the team need generous contributions from other areas beyond Richarlison and DCL.
 
In Gylfi and Andre, we have 2 of the biggest cowards in football.

Brilliant technical players, but absolutely no heart or desire.

Delph plays like he thinks he's lothar mattheus stepping down a few levels after winning all there is to win in the game..... When in fact he was just doing a job for a side so good that they could have made Alessandro Pistone look like cafu.

Poor Tom Davies is all I can say... Overpromoted cos multi millionaire international players have lost all their ambition aside from taking home a pay packet. Hopefully the kid recovers mentally and forges a solid career at a club like Burnley or Brighton. He deserves to be happy in the game as he has a good attitude despite not being as good as the players he tried so hard to cover in their deriliction of duty.
 

....absolutely. The point I’m making is that you don’t necessarily need goals from your Central midfielders. Reid, Bracewell, Harvey and Kendall have poor goal returns but there was healthy numbers elsewhere (even from CBs like Hurst and Mountfield).

I think @2xpetes simplifies the issue too much, especially highlighting players like Gomes and Delph who are never going to contribute many goals.

Its safe to say the team need generous contributions from other areas beyond Richarlison and DCL.
Reid, Bracewell, Harvey and Kendall, so true Eggs, they didn’t score many goals but worked all over the field providing cover,tackles and assisting their team mates up and down the field and were the start of many goals and many more attacks, a good example, Eggs, of what our present midfielders are failing to do.
 
Didn't we have this exact thread about 6 months ago?

Basic stats && OPs without the ability/desire to analyse them properly == crap threads.
 

Indeed, stats tell us very little, I wonder how many goals Kante scored from midfield in his title winning seasons at Leicester and Chelsea? You could also fudge the stats to include Richarlison who would’ve played midfield more than striker overall I’d say.
I’m more concerned that they’re all rubbish footballers and offer little in play let alone goals. Would happily see the back of all of them if properly replaced.
Is that the list you replied to ?
 
In Gylfi and Andre, we have 2 of the biggest cowards in football.

Brilliant technical players, but absolutely no heart or desire.

Delph plays like he thinks he's lothar mattheus stepping down a few levels after winning all there is to win in the game..... When in fact he was just doing a job for a side so good that they could have made Alessandro Pistone look like cafu.

Poor Tom Davies is all I can say... Overpromoted cos multi millionaire international players have lost all their ambition aside from taking home a pay packet. Hopefully the kid recovers mentally and forges a solid career at a club like Burnley or Brighton. He deserves to be happy in the game as he has a good attitude despite not being as good as the players he tried so hard to cover in their deriliction of duty.
Don't agree about Gomes ,have you any idea how he must be mentally after that leg break or are just too stupid to know the effect it can have ?
Do you want him flyimg in for tackles ?
It is posters like you that get me really wound up .
 

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