| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row 12:30 - Dec 3 with 795 views | thorpedo |
This must be a club 'record'. Maybe even a division record. It is an extraordinarily bad stat. And this had been against Wrexham, Hull, Oxford and Blackburn - hardly giants of the league. Take the shackles off - get men in the box - go back to winning 4-3 like the promotion season if needs be. We seem wedded to 'controlling' a game before our fabled strength in depth will prove the difference late on in games. Well it isn't working so time for a new approach.
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| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 12:36 - Dec 3 with 760 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
That is a shocking statistic.
Do you have a link? |  | | |
| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 12:42 - Dec 3 with 695 views | SitfcB |
3 on target in the first half against Wrexham according to the stats. |  |
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| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 12:43 - Dec 3 with 697 views | Basuco |
Three points are awarded after 90 minutes, so is this stat even relevant? |  | | |
| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 13:18 - Dec 3 with 609 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 12:43 - Dec 3 by Basuco |
Three points are awarded after 90 minutes, so is this stat even relevant? |
Three things:
The points are awarded based on the number of goals scored across two halves. If you don't get a shot on target in one of those halves, it massively impacts your ability to gain the points.
A stat was shown during the Oxford match which stated that Town hadn't won after going behind in 32 games. With the Oxford and Blackburn matches now to add, that makes 34. Which makes scoring first extra important. Which makes First Half goals vital, which can't happen without First Half shots on target.
How many points have we gained in those four games? I make it five, which is very much lower mid-table form. | | | |
| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 14:05 - Dec 3 with 497 views | Bent_double |
I wonder if it's a case of us trying to do a Burnley to get promotion? ie be very tight at the back, don't conceed, wear teams down and hopefully score a goal or two. Possibly with one eye on PL football the following season - having a strong, settled defence would help immensely.
If that was the case, then it's time to forget that as it's failed miserably, and, as you say, be more gung-ho in games.
With Philogene and Clarke we should be absolutely terrorising opposition teams and scoring for fun, a bit like Coventry are doing atm. |  |
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| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 14:07 - Dec 3 with 493 views | chantryblueboy |
| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 12:43 - Dec 3 by Basuco |
Three points are awarded after 90 minutes, so is this stat even relevant? |
Why would half those minutes be irrelevant. Do you turn up to Portman Road at 4 oclock on a Saturday | | | |
| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 15:35 - Dec 3 with 379 views | ITFC_Forever |
Hardly a club record.
In Mick’s latter years, we’d regularly do that. |  |
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| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 15:37 - Dec 3 with 366 views | HighgateBlue |
You have to score when you're on top. Otherwise more often than not, it comes back to bite you.
Before the run of games that you mention, there were other notable examples of a similar phenomenon. Charlton is an obvious one - we didn't score when we were on top in the first half and the game went away from us totally in the second half. Similarly against Boro, Hirst missed a penalty with the score at 0-0, and again, the game got away from us in the second half.
This is not something which is getting better - if anything, it's getting worse. So the business about the squad having to gel just won't cut it. I don't understand how we can have assembled such an expensive mass of forwards who can't shoot. |  | | |
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| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 17:10 - Dec 3 with 236 views | ITFCSG |
The general reluctance not to shoot and try to walk the ball into the net must be something coached into these players, perhaps by the messiah McK himself. It beggars belief that we have two former Championship golden boot players plus the highly feted Clarke and Philogene and yet still fire blanks.
If you have watched the past few games players seem reluctant to shoot even when they run into the box. Even J Clarke, Philogene, McAteer, Szmodics etc. opt to stop, and/or try to pass to another (often poorly timed or non-existent) teammate instead of taking their chance and having a pop at goal. This also slows the game down and allows the opposition defenders to regroup and get behind the ball. No one wants to run at the defenders as well. Its an infuriating watch. Why? | | | |
| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 18:54 - Dec 3 with 129 views | Radlett_blue |
| No shot on target in the 1st half for 4 games in a row on 14:05 - Dec 3 by Bent_double |
I wonder if it's a case of us trying to do a Burnley to get promotion? ie be very tight at the back, don't conceed, wear teams down and hopefully score a goal or two. Possibly with one eye on PL football the following season - having a strong, settled defence would help immensely.
If that was the case, then it's time to forget that as it's failed miserably, and, as you say, be more gung-ho in games.
With Philogene and Clarke we should be absolutely terrorising opposition teams and scoring for fun, a bit like Coventry are doing atm. |
Hmm..we were battering Charlton, but then conceded on the break & fell apart.
We also conceded on the break at Oxford after equalising. |  |
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