Villa miss was bad but unfortunately his only opportunity of the game. Top strikers have a conversion rate of what, 20%? Score every 5 chances? We as a team need to start creating chances for our strikers which we haven’t done for years and even for Kean we’ll have to start.
From the small cameo Iwobi gave I have hope he’ll be the one looking to get balls into the box for whoever starts up front & I hope that translates into more chances and therefore more goals for Kean and DCL.
Those calling for Tosun to start are suffering from the ol’ “get better the longer they don’t play” syndrome and after 20 minutes of him being miles behind the play in all our counter-attacks you’ll have a lightbulb moment that he wasn’t the better option.
Top strikers also get themselves in positions to score goals too Nymz. It's far too easy to blame the rest of the team for not creating enough.
Apart from the usual suspects, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool, and City, we're all much of a muchness for attempts on goal so far this season, and eight teams have had fewer attempts than us. The difference is we've only had 17% on target. Most have ratios over 30% and the likes of Norwich and Palace have over 50%.
I'm not blaming DCL in isolation for this, There must be half a dozen who have had excellent opportunities to score this season but failed to hit the target, and I think it's fair to say that had we taken even just a few of them we'd be sitting here with 9 points sharing top spot with the RS.
Yes we can create more, and I think once our players get up to speed we will. Only Bernard of our creative force has hit the ground running this season, but I'm confident that will change. But even if we do create more we still HAVE to increase our conversion rate. That's what is letting us down. DCL is as guilty of that as anybody and whilst some of the comments on here are predictably OTT, he still has to take his fair share of the responsibility/blame.
I take your point about Tosun playing on the counter. However I think both of our next opponents will play deep against us and either Tosun, or Kean if considered match ready, deserve the opportunity to start ahead of him.
