Tuesday, December 4
Hammers need goals from all areas
Looking at West Ham's top league scorers it's striking that after 14 games only five players have scored in the league. Arnautovic and Anderson both have five goals each, Hernandez has three, Yarmolenko two, Balbuena one and there's one own goal. So basically we're relying on Anderson, Arnautovic and Hernandez for goals. After such a great result at Newcastle tonight's game against Cardiff would be a good time for some other players to hit the target. Over the Christmas period it would be great to see Rice get his first for the Hammers and Noble and Snodgrass to weigh in with some goals. Antonio also needs to rediscover where the net is, while Balbuena and Diop could be more of a threat from set pieces. Spreading the goals around could be the key to making the top half. And dare I say it, there's always Andy Carroll coming off the bench…
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I take your point. Obviously a mark of a highly talented team is goals coming from all over the pitch. However, another take could be that the strikers banging in goals is an indication that the team is functioning in the way the manger is intending it to. The function of the strikers is to score goals and that of the rest of the team is to give them the opportunities to do so. On that basis then, with our forwards getting most of our recent goals, the team is performing pretty much how Manu wants them to.
It is when the strikers are drawing a blank that I tend to worry.
Agree it's not a bad thing if the strikers are scoring! Last night was certainly good since the goals came from the new sources of Perez and Antonio... takes a bit of pressure off the main strikers.
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