the struggle for goals

[toffeestillidie]

in recent years we've struggled for goals across seasons, the main reason we brought in aj and yak is to help our goal drought, and most of our success has seemed to come from miserly defence rather than high scoring.

obviously our recent demolition of sunderland inflates the number, but right now we've scored the 2nd most most goals of any team in the league, behind only arsenal.

anyone think we can maintain this number as the season progresses?

 

[TheDevils2001]

I tell you what if we could keep up scoring 90% of goals over the same amount of games for the rest of the season, that mean we did score 66 goals in 38 games, I did say that's enough goals for finishing in the Top 4!

Note: if we do score 66 goals, only ManU the Champion of last season would have scored more goals according to last year league table!

I think if we could actually keep conceding goals down to no more than 30after 38 games I would even say we did finish above the RS with them no where near us!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

We've also conceded the most goals in the top half. If we can get the defense back to its miserly old self then think what we can do.

 

[Philw]

the question is tho, are the increases in goals scored and conceded mutually exclusive? Is the reason we are allowing more goals because we've become more attack minded this year? If we cracked down at the back would that have an adverse effect at the other end? And if so, how would you rather have it, high scoring and conceding, or tight at the back but toothless?