Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Badfellow View Post
Theres an argument to suggest that Harry Kane wouldn't get that many goals in this team. Strikers can only convert what is given to them. I suppose Smith had a couple of headers he could have done better with and the others had half chances here and there but that was it. I just thought that there were far too many deliveries into the box that lacked the quality needed at this level. We can get up the pitch really well but need to deliver into the box a lot earlier with far better quality than we saw yesterday. Unfortunately its starting to mirror the last time we were here!
That's exactly as I see it Jimmy, although Kane might have done better with the shot than Hursty to give the defender no chance of clearing off the line. There were numerous occasions where we had played well through midfield (a failure in previous games) to get into good positions only for poor balls and decisions into the strikers. The strikers can't do much if the ball doesn't get to them, or is player in a way that allows the defenders to block them out. Freddy did great to create the one shot he had, and is worth persevering with I think, and Hurst needs some time to find his way, but mostly its for the supporting attackers to read our forwards better and play the balls in that would open up the chances. The big worry is that our supporting attackers lack the ability to do this constantly to supply the chances that we need. But still early days and good to see the midfield play better passing to at least put pressure on the opposition and get into good positions in the first place.