These are the games where clinical finishing becomes important
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One statistic ahead of the Manchester City and Tottenham game at White Hart Lane today highlights one of the very problems I have been discussing for the last few years.
When we were winning games and creating chances while teams attacked us to try and get back in the game, we regularly missed them and would laugh it off. Fans would say it didn't matter, but the fact that we haven't improved our clinical finishing shows it does matter, that those opportunities are just as important as the chance when we are 0-0.
It takes Tottenham 9 shots to score a goal, it takes Manchester City 6 shots to score a goal. We have to lower that 9 shot figure. The success rate of long range shooting is always going to be more than that of closer chances and for several years now we seem to have been set up to shot from range, or we are shooting from range because we haven't been good enough to get closer.
Ryan Maon scored the winner against Sunderland, but that was his fourth one-on-one, that isn't a healthy statistic and shows exactly the problem that makes it more difficult for us to achieve the success we want. Our conversion rate is 13%, Manchester City's is 18%, in games where we struggle to create chances that makes it harder to take three points. We have to address that and have to appreciate the importance of each and every chance. That will only happen if the individual believes it to be the case themselves
When we were winning games and creating chances while teams attacked us to try and get back in the game, we regularly missed them and would laugh it off. Fans would say it didn't matter, but the fact that we haven't improved our clinical finishing shows it does matter, that those opportunities are just as important as the chance when we are 0-0.
It takes Tottenham 9 shots to score a goal, it takes Manchester City 6 shots to score a goal. We have to lower that 9 shot figure. The success rate of long range shooting is always going to be more than that of closer chances and for several years now we seem to have been set up to shot from range, or we are shooting from range because we haven't been good enough to get closer.
Ryan Maon scored the winner against Sunderland, but that was his fourth one-on-one, that isn't a healthy statistic and shows exactly the problem that makes it more difficult for us to achieve the success we want. Our conversion rate is 13%, Manchester City's is 18%, in games where we struggle to create chances that makes it harder to take three points. We have to address that and have to appreciate the importance of each and every chance. That will only happen if the individual believes it to be the case themselves
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