- May 7, 2004
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A lot is made about the lack of signing a striker. All we have done really is replace Soldado (who can't lead the line on his own anyway) with a couple of attacking midfielders instead of a centre forward. The key for us this season is to distribute the goals a lot better than last season. It will be difficult for Kane to reproduce his goal tally from last season but he shouldn't need to. The only reason he had to score so many goals was because Adebayor and Soldado scored very few goals each (7 between them in all competitions) so it rested on Kane.
Last season only Kane, Eriksen and Chadli got into double figures. We have to improve on this. When you look at the number of attacking midfielders we have they should be chipping in with a lot more goals this season. I appreciate they will not all get into double figures but between Dembele, Paulinho, Lamela and Townsend they should have scored plenty more between them (scoring 13 between them last season). That's why we've signed N'jie and Son to add more fire power, add to that Dele Alli in place of Paulinho (who scored only 2 goals last season) and I think all in all we're in better shape in attack.
Add to that the midfield duo of Mason and Bentaleb, again we should expect them to chip in a bit more than the 3 goals they got last season. The possibility of keeping Pritchard as well can only help. I was really encouraged by the number of chances we created against Everton, we just need to work on our finishing. The good thing is that we have shown we'll create chances. As long as the attacking midfielders are willing to get into the box as we've seen Mason and Dele Alli do for example so far I'm sure the goals will come.
Not to mention we often have someone break through and surprise us so lets wait and see what this team can do.
Last season only Kane, Eriksen and Chadli got into double figures. We have to improve on this. When you look at the number of attacking midfielders we have they should be chipping in with a lot more goals this season. I appreciate they will not all get into double figures but between Dembele, Paulinho, Lamela and Townsend they should have scored plenty more between them (scoring 13 between them last season). That's why we've signed N'jie and Son to add more fire power, add to that Dele Alli in place of Paulinho (who scored only 2 goals last season) and I think all in all we're in better shape in attack.
Add to that the midfield duo of Mason and Bentaleb, again we should expect them to chip in a bit more than the 3 goals they got last season. The possibility of keeping Pritchard as well can only help. I was really encouraged by the number of chances we created against Everton, we just need to work on our finishing. The good thing is that we have shown we'll create chances. As long as the attacking midfielders are willing to get into the box as we've seen Mason and Dele Alli do for example so far I'm sure the goals will come.
Not to mention we often have someone break through and surprise us so lets wait and see what this team can do.