Our attacking play is simply telegraphed to the opposition. We never ever turn defenders.
Until we get the opposition facing their own goal we will simply will not score, apart from an individual piece of brilliance (that seems to have been trained out of the players) or a fluke rebound or error.
The tempo and reluctance to mix things up is our main problem, we are so intent in trying to play pretty football that route one is forgotten. Now I can hear people say we don’t want the Fat Sam or Warnock football, but if we only changed our game plan a little, opposition would then have to think, which they currently don’t.
For me an Olivier Giroud type of player is missing, strength and hold up play, with Gabbiadini running and feeding off a target man for part of a game would cause any team a headache.
Why we continually cross from wide areas with no one in the forward line who could head the ball is beyond me.