You don’t. You’re right about our forwards but not the defence. I bet Luton Burnley Sheff U looked good last season - how are they looking now. Look forward to Guehi and Anderson finding their level and signing for Plymouth or Cardiff.

It’s also down to service as well as the quality supplying them and I’m sure in the championship they would score 15-20 goals a season? It’s also down to the quality of the defender they are up against which in the premiership is high in quality / organisation

Putting out a team with a back four and Hughes, Lerma, Doucoure and Schlupp leaves only 2 attack minded players. The first three are defensive midfielders and the latter has awful attacking stats from last season, 3 goals and 1 assist in 34 games. As a result we were only relying on luck to take control of the game in an attacking sense, which 9 games out of 10 will not happen. Would of at least hoped in a home match we would show a little bit more intent from the start.

Edited by Booted Eagle (29 Oct 2023 2.16pm)

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

If you are a player like Ayew who gets loads of possession often in hopeless no win positions then you will occasionally get a free kick in a dangerous position but more often lose the ball.

If you hang about with little effect you will rarely touch the ball so this stat will appear "better".

Important not to place too much faith in numbers considered in isolation.

Ok guys i havent read any of previous posts , so evert chance alot has already been said ,

My view of the game spuds wasnt doing anything great they looked bang avg for a team top of the lge ,

we was most of the game in control but a lucky goal and spuds went up a gear , and then broke a cardinal sin not picking up the runner for the 2nd goal , that is defending 101.

thought Hughes put in more than a shift and for that shouldnt have been taken off at that time , Franca should have come on for edouard not for Hughes then bring Ravi on and so on ,

Now for why i needed to replace my tele what the F!@#$%^ was our forwards doing allowing spuds to pass the ball back to the keeper god knows how many times when we are losing , without closing the the keeper down and forcing them to take the ball towards us , then we could have won the ball back and tried to attack , we must have lost a good 5 mins because of that,

Now VAR for F@#$% sake how many looks does it take to come up with not clear and obvious , it allowed spuds over 2 mins to regroup , sack that prick who cant make up there mind in 30secs

Think I have covered everything , role on next game should be close to having play makers back

Obviously Guehi and Andersen are the exception. But the rest of the on field starting line up offers precious little quality IMO not just the forwards.