stupot07
Well-Known Member
When you say "how can the loss of 1 player lead too such a loss of confidence" we're not talking about anyone old player, we're talking about someone who has scored 2 goals every 3 league games during his time with us, in fact had he stayed and kept his form up he'd have scored 30 league goals this season. On top of his goals his hold up play was integral to the high tempo more direct way we attacked, and enabled players like moussa to feed off him higher up the pitch. And also our "we'll score more than you" philosophy that everyone was happy with relied in 3 players scoring regularly and averaging around 2 goals per game.
Moussa:
With Clarke 12 goals from 33 games
Without Clarke 2 goals from 13 games.
So losing 1 player has not only means losing a 30 goal a season striker it's also disrupted the pattern of play and impacted on other players like Moussa. We're now pretty much reliant on 1 player to score goals which is far too much of a burden.
We're still shipping in goals at the same rate as we have all season (most people didn't have a problem with that when we were winning 5-4, 3-2's, etc) but we're not scoring, which leads to a loss of confidence and trying to find a different way of winning, and being a bit more defensively minded which is often dull and scrappy.
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