I agree we were unlucky and West Ham were lucky (esp the second goal, that was a worldie)
I wonder if it’s always a good thing to have as much field tilt as we did. Maybe a slightly more conservative approach in midfield would’ve coaxed West Ham out of their shell and left more spaces in the box.
I know we made some high xG chances, but it felt like every single one was super contested due to West Ham having 8-10 men in their box at any given time. It almost feels like our tactical mistake was showing them too little respect and trying to dominate them as if they were Sheffield.
But maybe this is just confirmation bias and it really was nothing more than a bad finishing day.
It’s poor finishing and it’s been trend over the past 4 games. Villa, Brighton, Liverpool, and West Ham.
Collectively something like 84 shots on goal 16 big changes and in the 30’s shots on target. Those 4 games have yielded just 3 goals which is a woeful return for such great and dominance. (With the exception of the Liverpool game)
We can analyse to death but right now our forward line are hugely under performing, and Gabi is some distance off his best.....
Yeah, I think it should lead to is this something that we should expect to be a long term problem?
On that I lean no, of the players I really would only say Jesus is a negative finisher with confidence. I would be more concerned about not creating chances than not finishing them right now at least. It's not ideal but it is less of the problem.
I agree we were unlucky and West Ham were lucky (esp the second goal, that was a worldie)
I wonder if it’s always a good thing to have as much field tilt as we did. Maybe a slightly more conservative approach in midfield would’ve coaxed West Ham out of their shell and left more spaces in the box.
I know we made some high xG chances, but it felt like every single one was super contested due to West Ham having 8-10 men in their box at any given time. It almost feels like our tactical mistake was showing them too little respect and trying to dominate them as if they were Sheffield.
But maybe this is just confirmation bias and it really was nothing more than a bad finishing day.
It’s poor finishing and it’s been trend over the past 4 games. Villa, Brighton, Liverpool, and West Ham.
Collectively something like 84 shots on goal 16 big changes and in the 30’s shots on target. Those 4 games have yielded just 3 goals which is a woeful return for such great and dominance. (With the exception of the Liverpool game)
We can analyse to death but right now our forward line are hugely under performing, and Gabi is some distance off his best.....
Yeah, I think it should lead to is this something that we should expect to be a long term problem?
On that I lean no, of the players I really would only say Jesus is a negative finisher with confidence. I would be more concerned about not creating chances than not finishing them right now at least. It's not ideal but it is less of the problem.
I’d agree I don’t expect the profligacy to continue at all.....and I’d rather see the problems and issue now and have them ironed out for the run in