Scoring goals

[phil__]

Whats the plan to score goals? We dont get any decent crosses in our midfielders dont play any through balls we realy should be doing better with the players we have

[Richard]

Agree with a lot if the above posts but genuinely think we'll be fine when Delph returns to play alongside Sanchez and either Westwood or Cleverley, and Benteke has Weimann up front with him with Charlie or Jack floating

[andyh]

Agree with a lot if the above posts but genuinely think we'll be fine when Delph returns to play alongside Sanchez and either Westwood or Cleverley, and Benteke has Weimann up front with him with Charlie or Jack floating

Morning Paul.

Delph is out till the new year.
Loads and if, buts, and maybes in that statement.
Yeah, we'll be fine...this team has goals in it and we go again!

[supertom]

Agree with a lot if the above posts but genuinely think we'll be fine when Delph returns to play alongside Sanchez and either Westwood or Cleverley, and Benteke has Weimann up front with him with Charlie or Jack floating

Morning Paul.

Delph is out till the new year.
Loads and if, buts, and maybes in that statement.
Yeah, we'll be fine...this team has goals in it and we go again!

If Delph decides he wants to leave we may have no choice but to cash in when Jan arrives. Alternatively if he signs a pre=deal with someone there's very little to stop him taking his foot off the gas for his last 4 months.

[Ads]

It's not just the movement of the front men that needs to be increased but also the practicing of the runs they intend to make so the midfield can make correct decisions. It was apparent yesterday that the midfield didn't know where Gabby was going to make a run to.

[supertom]

In terms of Gabby I think Lambert uses him all wrong. Whenever Gabby has been good for us it's been when he gets the ball and runs at defenders and commits. He had 2-3 moments yesterday when he did that. Not enough. He roasted Collins (sadly going onto his left peg) and also one a free kick which we wasted. That's what Gabby does well. We've seen it so rarely in the last couple of season.

I don't want to see Gabby with his back to goal or trying to be a playmaker. He's a crap footballer. He can't trap a ball or pass it, so why do we push him to be something he's not?

Play Gabby wide, or pull him a little deeper and play the ball in front of him. Get him running at fullbacks and center-halves. Getting him committing players to draw fouls. It's the only thing he's good at and he's actually very good at it.

If our midfield and attack seem like separate entities I'd like to give Gabby the ball in midfield and just run with it. Nothing subtle just a bit of the old Run Forrest Run!!!

I do worry he hasn't got the legs to do it too much during a game, which might mean making him an impact player.

[Ron Manager]

It's not just the movement of the front men that needs to be increased but also the practicing of the runs they intend to make so the midfield can make correct decisions. It was apparent yesterday that the midfield didn't know where Gabby was going to make a run to.

Macdonalds?

[ez]

Lambert is too short of ideas or tactics. Counter attack doesn't work when you're losing. As we have seen this season, when we have gone behind it's game over.

[eamonn]

I wonder if we'd signed Ki would he have made more of a difference than Tom "just there" Cleverly.

[supertom]

I wonder if we'd signed Ki would he have made more of a difference than Tom "just there" Cleverly.

Hard to say. He's very similar to Westwood, though a much better version. But Lambert would play both and thus have then cancel each other out in the same way as Westwood and TC do.

Ki is the best of the bunch though. Evidently he was probably our first choice and TC is the back up.