The Welbz Thread (official)

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

LOL, no he couldn't. Dortmund were superior in every department, Welbeck could have scored 3 and they'd have scored 4. Last night can't be pinned on Welbeck. Strikers will miss more than they score - that applies to all strikers. The team creating more chances is how strikers rack their goal tally up.

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Goals change games though, they change the flow of a game and give players confidence, you never know what can happen after you score.

It may not have changed the game, the point is though in big games you don't get a lot of good chances and need to take them, we lack a top class striker who can make the difference.

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Originally Posted by Özim

Another miss last night for him, could have made all the difference if he'd scored, needs to put those away, if we put our chances away we might get better results against the top teams.

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Give him a chance mate - he's only been with us for about a week, and in that time he's been chucked staright into two of the toughest games you could possibly pick!

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Originally Posted by Özim

Goals change games though, they change the flow of a game and give players confidence, you never know what can happen after you score.

It may not have changed the game, the point is though in big games you don't get a lot of good chances and need to take them, we lack a top class striker who can make the difference.

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Sanogo can also play there.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Sanogo can also play

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The difference between Giroud and Welbeck, is Giroud is a good finisher but rarely ever creates the chances for himself to finish off scoring oportunities....Welbeck's positioning is a lot better and does all the hard work but his finishing is retched.

Anything thinking what i'm thinking?.....put the two of them in a matter transporter.

Olivier Weloud

Danny Girbeck

The one who can both finish and get himself into decent scoring oportunities becomes our main striker, the other gets fed into an industrial waste grinder.

Girouds shooting accuracy is shit.

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Originally Posted by I am invisible

Give him a chance mate - he's only been with us for about a week, and in that time he's been chucked staright into two of the toughest games you could possibly pick!

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It's not about giving him a chance, there's no reason for him to miss these chances if he's a good finisher, as mentioned before though that's his achilles heel and so far it seems it still remains this.

A few notes on Welbeck.

So much focus on his lack of goal (yet) masks the fact that he was one of the few players who could actually remember how to receive and return the ball last night. I've seen so many games where Giroud puts us under pressure because he get's dispossessed as soon as he receives the ball with his back to goal. As bad as it was, the reason why we had any possession at all last night is because Giroud or Sonogo wasn't playing.

I think he's had an easy ride for last night considering the trio at least of very presentable chances. He hasn't been here long enough for folk to be truly exasperated with him though. Very difficult to pick the worse finisher between him and Olivier.

That said he wouldn't have saved our blushes last night even if he had Sturridge's finishing ability, we were that bad.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

The difference between Giroud and Welbeck, is Giroud is a good finisher but rarely ever creates the chances for himself to finish off scoring oportunities....Welbeck's positioning is a lot better and does all the hard work but his finishing is retched.

Anything thinking what i'm thinking?.....put the two of them in a matter transporter.

Olivier Weloud

Danny Girbeck

The one who can both finish and get himself into decent scoring oportunities becomes our main striker, the other gets fed into an industrial waste grinder.

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He's actually a pretty decent first-time finisher [Giroud] - it's when he has to run and shoot at the same time that it all seems to start going wrong for him...