Goalscoring - our biggest/consistent failure over the last 10 years

[Skills]

For some reason I had Liverpool down as pretty free scoring under Rodgers

Only when he had Suarez. In the two seasons with Suarez they scored 71 and 101 PL goals.

When he left, they dropped to 52 goals.

 

[Ish]

Only when he had Suarez. In the two seasons with Suarez they scored 71 and 101 PL goals.

When he left, they dropped to 52 goals.

Aargh that makes the most sense bud, thanks.

 

[GueRed]

So true. Glad someone has brought this up.

 

[Scandi Red]

Score goal good. No score goal bad.

 

[Lentwood]

It's not really a huge surprise is it, given that most teams spend the bulk of their budgets on centre forwards, whereas we seem to have had an obsession with CBs and wide players over the last decade.

We have seen what can happen when you add a Cavani or an Ibrahimovic into the mix. Even though they were passed it, they showed us what a high-class CF could achieve.

One of our biggest issues I feel is that we have to work really hard to score goals. We very rarely, if ever, score 'cheap' goals because we don't have the players with the instincts to score them. We don't score many headers, or tap-ins, or deflected goals, or goals from set-pieces.

If we can start to add the sort of 'cheap goal' you get from having a top CF (or two) and we can sort out the GKing position, we could easily end-up 20+ goals better off by addressing two positions.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Score goal good. No score goal bad.

I know you’re being glib but that is the essence of football. We watch the game to watch goals. Saves and tackles are good but nobody dedicates hours of our lives every week just to watch that stuff.

And that’s what’s made life as a United fan post Fergie so cruel. People moan about a lack of trophies but I just want more goals. If we had the exact same league and cup results this season but with 30 more goals scored en route I would be a hell of a lot more positive about life under our new manager.

 

[andersj]

Really just about recruitment and to a slight degree bad luck. We wasted so much on Ronaldo, Cavani and Sancho. Add to that the injuries of Martial and the situation with Greenwood. As a result we are stuck with one attacker who have «worked» and one who hopefully will keep improving Antony.

We could probably also be lucky with Garnacho. But yes, imagine if the money spent on Ronaldo, Cavani and Sancho was spent wisely. Or just fair.

You could imagine that instead of bringing in players like Cavani and Ronaldo we took a punt on someone from the Championship to give us better depth. That would likely have been Watkins or Toney during that time period. But we had a different strategy. A strategy I would assume was commercial driven.

 

[ayushreddevil9]

It is but I’m not sure why. It’s not really the striker. Maybe this season. But it is the zombie passing,
lack of movement etc.

Zero midfield control, lack of intelligent passing, braindead runs, no ability to whip in crosses, heading(what does that even mean?), braindead shooting from 100 yards out.

You could go on with what's wrong with Utd this season and it would be applicable for any other season post Fergie.

 

[UpWithRivers]

Which is why we need one main striker, one back up striker and a RW. Kane, Johnathan David, Maddison or Oshimen, Dembele, Toney.

 

[Parma Dewol]

This game is another example of our inability to convert good opportunities. Wolves have been abysmal and, from the chances we’ve created, we should have been out of sight by the hour mark.

 

[Appletonred]

Problematic position for years, Zlatan, Cavani, Falcao had all seen better days and were probably more cost effective than going all out in the market for a prime world class striker, not had a genuine striker in his prime since RVP, and for that we have to go back to the Glazernomics unfortunately.

 

[MoskvaRed]

These last 3 games are going to be agonising unless Liverpool drop points. We simply don’t have the firepower to build comfortable leads. A striker is the absolute priority for the summer.

 

[Raoul]

We've scored 5 goals in the past 7 fixtures. At this rate, it will be hard to see us not dropping some points over the next 3 games.

 

[ShinjiNinja26]

2nd lowest goals scorers in the top half of the table this season with Villa being the only team with fewer. Piss poor.

 

[Lost bear]

Its not for lack of chances. We've created as many big chances as Arsenal this season, we just have a shocking conversion rate

Yes, I think this is clearly the case. I also believe that the inability to score goals has all kinds of subsequent effects, such as pressure on the defence, and tension across the board ( including in us poor fans).

Although our performances have not been great of late, I really think the team will be transformed if we can get a very good, clinical striker in over the summer.