Scoring goals

[Steve67]

Lambert stifles creativity. Delph, Westwood and Cleverly, or Sanchez, are not creative players, if we insist on playing this diamond, or playing a totally disinterested Agbonlahor and consistently underperforming Wiemann as wide players, what do we expect? Benteke needs a winger or a solid partner. Lambert wouldn't know what a creative player is, judging on the current bunch.

[Steve67]

Seriously, think about it. Ignore the results part, just the goals scored bit.

We have played seven games and scored ONE goal.

We've played 11 matches this season and scored FIVE goals. We didn't even score in our Capital One Cup match at home to Leyton Orient.

That is the worst in the Premier League.

How anyone thinks this bloke is going to turn things around is beyond me.

Good point. Lambert moans about perspective yet fails to consider that we also played Orient and QPR during this spell, lost to both, failed to score, creative next to piss all. This tenure is boring, tedious, totally fucking annoying and yet Lerner does fuck all about it.

[supertom]

Seriously, think about it. Ignore the results part, just the goals scored bit.

We have played seven games and scored ONE goal.

We've played 11 matches this season and scored FIVE goals. We didn't even score in our Capital One Cup match at home to Leyton Orient.

That is the worst in the Premier League.

How anyone thinks this bloke is going to turn things around is beyond me.

Sometimes during a goal drought you can have an element of misfortune. It could seem like nothing goes right. The woodwork keeps you out time and again, or an inspired opposition goalkeeper.
What makes our run most worrying is that there has been no misfortune about it whatsoever. We've not created enough, we not tested goalkeepers. Adrian didn't have a decent save to make all game.

[curiousorange]

The fact is that we can't get other scoring options in until January, and probably wouldn't get them in until deadline day, so February 2015. This manager can't seem to wring goals out of what I think is a fairly mediocre squad, but not in essence a terrible one. Austin at QPR isn't a vastly different proposition from Weimann, for example. I maintain another manager with less stubborn ideas could see us out of trouble fairly swiftly.

[pauliewalnuts]

I agree. The goalscoring options aren't the biggest problem.

The manager, week after week, sends out that team and has them look less than the sum of its parts.

I honestly don't know how the club can really expect us to put up with this shit. I look at the clubs around us, and I see them play, and invariably I see them showing much, much more life than we do. We just look so moribund.

In fact, the first half today was the most moribund I've seen us look in years.

Buying players will not change this. The problem is the manager. He is absolutely clueless, an absolute fucking chancer. He needs to be moved on at the earliest opportunity. The problem is, the chairman loves him.

[supertom]

The fact is that we can't get other scoring options in until January, and probably wouldn't get them in until deadline day, so February 2015. This manager can't seem to wring goals out of what I think is a fairly mediocre squad, but not in essence a terrible one. Austin at QPR isn't a vastly different proposition from Weimann, for example. I maintain another manager with less stubborn ideas could see us out of trouble fairly swiftly.

First thing we need is a fresh system and a new game plan. Any decent manager worth his salt would see that and I also agree about Weimann. Austin is all about finishing. His all round game is pretty limited, as is Weimanns.

I honestly thing Pulis would have a field day with having the likes of Benteke, Bent and Weimann at his disposal. I'd also fancy him to get the best (or close to) from Gabby again, as well as Zogbia. We'd not be particularly pretty but we'd probably be effective.

[silhillvilla]

Everything points to the club needing a new manager

[kippaxvilla2]

I agree. The goalscoring options aren't the biggest problem.

The manager, week after week, sends out that team and has them look less than the sum of its parts.

I honestly don't know how the club can really expect us to put up with this shit. I look at the clubs around us, and I see them play, and invariably I see them showing much, much more life than we do. We just look so moribund.

In fact, the first half today was the most moribund I've seen us look in years.

Buying players will not change this. The problem is the manager. He is absolutely clueless, an absolute fucking chancer. He needs to be moved on at the earliest opportunity. The problem is, the chairman loves him.

It is made all the worse when said Manager describes a performance such as today as 'excellent' and 'first class'.

[curiousorange]

One of Agbonlahor's issues is that he needs to be given one task rather than told to play up front and get on with it. He hasn't got enough about him to sniff out a chance.

[silhillvilla]

Gabby is so annoying , he has this habit of smiling in all the wrong moments. Seen again today.

[Goldie.7]

Gabby needs to be moved on asap he's been here far too long doing nothing. Today was a prime example of him at his finest, blazes a shot miles over and just laughs about it. I do not rate him and can't wait for the day he gets sold.

I said at the start of the season he wouldn't score more than 6 goals. I'm still standing by this.

Why on earth are we still relying on this knucklehead to win us games, he's had his best season of 13 league goals 4 and a half years ago.

Lambert is a prized donkey, Gabby should of been transfer listed in the summer and we should of bought Finnbogason. He would of been relatively cheap but so effective.

[kippaxvilla2]

Imagine you are at work, and you make a fairly major fcuk up.  I dunno, a company goes down stinging you for £400k for example and you turn to your boss and laugh.  That is the equivalent of what Gabby does when he misses.

[eamonn]

I agree. The goalscoring options aren't the biggest problem.

The manager, week after week, sends out that team and has them look less than the sum of its parts.

I honestly don't know how the club can really expect us to put up with this shit. I look at the clubs around us, and I see them play, and invariably I see them showing much, much more life than we do. We just look so moribund.

In fact, the first half today was the most moribund I've seen us look in years.

Buying players will not change this. The problem is the manager. He is absolutely clueless, an absolute fucking chancer. He needs to be moved on at the earliest opportunity. The problem is, the chairman loves him.

And yet he seems to have a network of boneheads in the media like McInally and Charlie Nicholas who always excuse him with the no money, bringing young lads through schtick. Randy is probably too dumb to notice but his own failings have masked Lamberts deficiencies among what seems like a fair number of neutrals as well as many of our own fans.

Speaking of Nicholas, why is it that he always covers our games on Soccer Saturday? Maybe he's told the producer that Lambert doesn't deserve to be scrutinized so let me take all the Villa games.

[pbavfckuwait]

Why we persist with Gabby through the middle in the absence of Benteke or Kozak just mystifies me, he has not got the intelligence to play there, his speed has gone , he is useless in the air and his finishing is championship standard at best.

In the poor state we are in for forward players and I do not count Bent as one of our options, again a player that gets better in peoples minds for every game he misses, he needs to play Andi through the middle at least he has some sort of attackers instinct, Gabby has none.

[pooligan]

I think the reason we persist with Gabby is because our clueless manager actually believes he will score goals