coolhandfox Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 Pearson's attackers have the highest proportion of accuracy in the Championship, with 60.9% of their goal attempts on target (162 of 266), while the other end they boast the meanest defence in the second tier (22 goals conceded in 23 games) Seems to backup the feeling most keepers seem to have a good game against! We these stats only a matter of time before thing come good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristianity77 Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 All that stat highlights is what most of us already know. We dont have good enough strikers to get ourselves out of this division. Its one thing "getting a shot on target" but another to actually make it meaningful. Id also say that hitting the target doesnt mean a striker is accurate. Look at the size of the goal hes aiming at. High accuracy for me is hitting a part of the goal that the keeper cannot get to.....and this is what we suck at judging by the evidence in your stat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charl91 Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 All that stat highlights is what most of us already know. We dont have good enough strikers to get ourselves out of this division. Its one thing "getting a shot on target" but another to actually make it meaningful. Id also say that hitting the target doesnt mean a striker is accurate. Look at the size of the goal hes aiming at. High accuracy for me is hitting a part of the goal that the keeper cannot get to.....and this is what we suck at judging by the evidence in your stat This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxhateram Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 All that stat highlights is what most of us already know. We dont have good enough strikers to get ourselves out of this division. Its one thing "getting a shot on target" but another to actually make it meaningful. Id also say that hitting the target doesnt mean a striker is accurate. Look at the size of the goal hes aiming at. High accuracy for me is hitting a part of the goal that the keeper cannot get to.....and this is what we suck at judging by the evidence in your stat Shut up you grumpy git! The last 4 games other teams defences have sat on the line and we have hit the post\bar many times that says our strike force are fine we just need a bit more luck. The keepers in the last few games have had absolute blinders you can't deny that. We will start scoring again soon and go on another run. You will see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristianity77 Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 Shut up you grumpy git! The last 4 games other teams defences have sat on the line and we have hit the post\bar many times that says our strike force are fine we just need a bit more luck. The keepers in the last few games have had absolute blinders you can't deny that. We will start scoring again soon and go on another run. You will see. The keepers have had good games i agree. Im a keeper myself and have been for over 20 years. But the fact is, that alot of our shots give the keeper a chance. I love matches personally where shots come in all game that are a little bit to the left or right of you as it makes you look amazing. But the fact is, is that if these strikers actually hit the corners of the goal, there would be nothing I could do no matter how "good a keeper" i was. Same applies up and down the football chain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithuriel Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 Shows our play is good enough, just not the finishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolhandfox Posted 26 December 2012 Author Share Posted 26 December 2012 All that stat highlights is what most of us already know. We dont have good enough strikers to get ourselves out of this division. Its one thing "getting a shot on target" but another to actually make it meaningful. Id also say that hitting the target doesnt mean a striker is accurate. Look at the size of the goal hes aiming at. High accuracy for me is hitting a part of the goal that the keeper cannot get to.....and this is what we suck at judging by the evidence in your stat Why do most City fans always turn a positive into a negative :xmassmile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shade Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 shows we create a lot of half chances, but very few "how did the striker miss that" chances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithuriel Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 Why do most City fans always turn a positive into a negative :xmassmile: What we do best :xmaswink: When we beat Ipswich i was annoyed we wasted so many chances and my two mates said we should have had double figures and one of them was really annoyed we only got six, honestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark_w Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 When it comes to finishing we are fine, it's clear that since we have one of the best attacks in the division in terms of goals scored at home, we have players capable of scoring us enough goals. The problem is that we simply haven't been able to get near to that away from home, those players aren't bad finishers because they're playing away from home, it's our approach on the road that needs to change, we don't need to go out and spend millions on yet another new striker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc_star Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 All that stat highlights is what most of us already know. We dont have good enough strikers to get ourselves out of this division. Its one thing "getting a shot on target" but another to actually make it meaningful. Id also say that hitting the target doesnt mean a striker is accurate. Look at the size of the goal hes aiming at. High accuracy for me is hitting a part of the goal that the keeper cannot get to.....and this is what we suck at judging by the evidence in your stat Doesn't explain why, that in a considerably large amount of games, opposing keepers have game of our lives against us, but you see them the week later letting shots in. Our midfield & defence restrict opposition to the fewest shots on target in the whole division (apparently)... but Kasper doesn't have games like these opposing keepers where he saves 10 or 15 shots on target Is Kasper as bad as people like to make out our forwards are, in so much as the few shots on goal he has to handle, he doesn't handle and we keep losing by the odd goal, or (the classy Bellamy aside) are all these medicocre Championship forwards who score past us that much better at shooting? No they can't be, if they don't get as many shots on target as the OP says we do. So if people want to say our forwards are naff, then by extension they're saying Kasper is too, as the few shots we concede on target are going in... and that from forwards who can't get as many shots on target as we do ourselves. ie. forwards who aren't as good as ours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charl91 Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 So if people want to say our forwards are naff, then by extension they're saying Kasper is too, as the few shots we concede on target are going in... and that from forwards who can't get as many shots on target as we do ourselves. ie. forwards who aren't as good as ours To be honest, Kasper hasn't been great this season though. Certainly not as good as he was at the start of last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain... Posted 26 December 2012 Share Posted 26 December 2012 I do wonder if when we dominate games and get lots of shots on target early on we warm-up their keeper and help him have a blinder, whereas Kasper sits there doing nothing and we often concede from their first attack. What that stat does show is that whilst not perfect we are only a couple of pieces away from completing the puzzle, and if we can just find that one piece, whether it is a new player, a new formation, a few tweaks, no more niggly little disruptive injuries or just a bit of luck or momentum, we are so close, I feel it. What I don't understand is all those people that want us to put all the pieces back in the box and start again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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