It's a tactical problem resulting the CAM and Wings dropping too deep in defense. Personally I would adress Doucoure for the long balls as he is good at winning air duels, and lay it back to the wings/full backs or 2 DMs to give DCL more freedom to be in the box for crosses or run deep. It would be feasible, but not the way we approach it on the pitch rn.
Well obviously, it's always easier to find gaps vs teams that try to play rather than to defend. I think that's a big job getting better players in there as well to take on defenders and force them to mistakes, the Garnacho profile of players and Harrison and McNeil are far from that profile. Something that Pep or SAF couldn't compensate. Or probably we need to set up differently in these type of games with Danjuma/Patterson/Gomes/Dobbin/Chermiti...
Nobody is saying just stand in the box permanently. Just that being in the box should be his number one priority. He spends 75% of his time chasing down balls and when he does eventually get a chance he is that desperate he flunks it. Carlo recognised this and that he also misses a lot of chances so it stands to reason that if he makes himself available for more chances then he will eventually put some of them away and will score more. If we want to get the best out of him then that is what he needs to do. He will never be a Lukaku and will always frustrate and miss more than he scores but if he misses 9 and scores 1 then that will be better than we currently have i.e zero.
Its not that easy you're missing the point that we don't have the same quality. The tactics are what they are partly because of that because we don't have the quality on the ball to pass it round and create space and opportunities and we don't have individual class to run with the ball or find great passes so we can't afford to have a striker not getting involved in the build up play because that will just leave us even worse off than we are its just total lack of awareness to think we can just have a striker strolling round waiting to get chances the whole team has to put a massive shift in just to keep us in games we really are that bad.
Everyone knows we are crap but it doesn't change the fact that we are 2nd and above both City and the RS for crosses this season and out of the 582 crosses and all of the other opportunities not counted as crosses, our main striker Dom has had a measly 52 shots and only 18 of them were on target and zero headed goals. It couldn't be any more obvious that he needs to be on the end of more chances and he will then score more goals. Dyche needs to find a way to do that or he will continue to struggle.
I don't think thats anything to do with him spending time outside the box though thats far more to do with us not producing great quality crosses and also him not getting on the end of crosses when they occasionally are quite good. He could easily have 8 to 10 goals now based on the chances he has had and we would be saying he's having a good season but unfortunately he keeps missing the chances so we're talking about that instead. Obviously there are loads of things we could get better at and one of them is making sure he gets so many chances that it doesn't matter if he misses 90% of them because the 10% he scores will be enough but then again another one is him improving on the 10% he does score (or 0% for the last 20 something games).
He will never improve on his scoring stats. It is all he has ever been capable of. He will miss a lot more than he scores. Out of his 52 shots and 18 on target he has scored 3 of them which is about normal for his capabilities. The only way he scores more goals is if he gets more chances which means getting him in the box more often. He will still miss loads but his probability of scoring increases. Carlo knew it which was why that was his only good season of scoring for us.
Nah it's not just you mate. They all need to improve and some aren't even capable of it.
