When we’ve just conceded 7 goals in a week to a side playing kieffer Moore up front (a player who’s having his first crack at top flight football aged 30 and has spent most of his career playing league one and lower) I don’t think you can say it’s just the quality of attackers we have that means we’ve failed to score in 5 of our last 6 games and have only managed more than one in a game twice in the first 17 games of the season.
Oh absolutely, the set up in the last week in each game has been woeful and that's on Lampard.
We played a Bournemouth team who do score goals, though. They got two against Spurs and 3 at Leeds and should have had more. So I expected us to ship chances because we have done all season - and that's a worry.
However, we offer no threat going the other way, to a Bournemouth team that had conceded seven goals in their last two league games, and that's more worrying because I think if we set up more like we did earlier in the season, we can tighten things up at the back again, even if it's reducing teams to lower quality chances (last few games we've given away more high-quality chances)
I think it all boils down to our attack being dreadful and he's looking for ways to rectify that by getting numbers forward. It's not working. It could cost him his job, but the break's come at the right time.
We do have an awful side though. I'm sorry, we're crap. We're as crap as we were last year. That's on the manager, the board, the DoF and the players. But I always expected us to be in the midst of it this year. I said as much in August when we didn't buy an attacker of actual half-decent quality.
If we get one or two of those in, we have enough to be safely mid-table by March/April. If we don't, we will be scrapping until the end again.
