Why can't we score?

I didn't really like Pep's comments in his press conference saying he can't get the players to score more. It's the managers job to improve every aspect of the team, but the way he was talking sounded like he just wants us to keep creating chances and hope for the best.

But he's right. He can't run on the pitch and kick the ball himself.

The job of a football manager in a matchday context is to ensure that players have chances and stop chances against them. That's all they can really do. I think it was Arrigo Sacchi who said that the manager during a match is responsible for about 5% of the performance either way because they can't influence events too much, only change shapes and strategies in order to create or stop the creation of chances.

This is a professional elite level and not youth football. In youth football you need to work on shooting, on heading, on the basic skills of the game like that. Doing that to a professional player would almost be insulting - like you been a 15 year veteran in your job and been sent back to primary school to learn how to count or something. They already know and have the fundamentals of the game down.

Sergio Aguero doesn't need shooting training. He's scored over 300 goals at a professional standard over a 14 year career in three countries and representing his nation in World Cups. He knows how to shoot. I think you'd be right in suggesting that he's taking different types of shots now so there would be an adjustment period where his brain needs to develop as quick as his feet, but there's no way you can really coach this outside of putting him in matches.

If you're creating lots of decent quality chances over and above the chances you give away then the manager is doing his job. That's really all tactics can achieve. The rest is the mental part of the game which can only be dealt with by the player themselves, obviously with the help of the club staff if needed. But there's no training drill to improve this situation, it's on Sergio to break through this barrier on his own and I for one back him to do so.
 
Of course professional players need shooting practice. Why do golfers spend hours on the range or snooker players at the table.

Many could , for example, practice shooting with their weaker foot?
 
I didn't really like Pep's comments in his press conference saying he can't get the players to score more. It's the managers job to improve every aspect of the team, but the way he was talking sounded like he just wants us to keep creating chances and hope for the best.

He can't get them to score.

He can create tactical systems to create overloads and gaps for them to exploit, but at the end of the day, the ball drops to Aguero, KDB or Silva in the box and only they can put it in the box.

What do you expect him to do? You think Sergio Aguero doesn't know how to shoot? You think they don't do shooting drills? (We see them every week on the youtube channel).
 
Bollocks to yourself too.
It's patently obvious that he way we attack let's the opposition get men behind the ball. Its also consistently the same method so opposition defenders can practice till they're perfect. Also defenders don't have to worry about marking a man in the box when we have it out wide because there isn't one in the box - they only have to worry about the passingabd picking up our players when they make runs.
Serriously, we really have to mix it up more by breaking quickly more frequently than we do and mixing it up.
BTW, we did it at the start of the season but don't do it now. The only conclusion can be that it has been coached out of them.
It's got nothing to do with defenders. We keep missing simple shots. We miss one on ones.

We keep getting in great positions and not hitting the target. That is the problem.
 
Of course professional players need shooting practice. Why do golfers spend hours on the range or snooker players at the table.

Many could , for example, practice shooting with their weaker foot?

You actually think there's the possibility they don't practice shooting?
 
And now people are saying we don't practice shooting?

For fucks sake. Do they really believe that?
 
If Silva's finishing matched the rest of his game, he's up there with the very best.

Sterling is always looking for someone to pass to instead of taking the responsibility of a shot. As long as that is his mentality he will never be a goalscorer.

Too early to tell with Sane but signs are good.

Aguero not as clinical under Pep for some reason.

Jesus looks the real deal.

Iheanacho doesn't get enough game time.
 
And now people are saying we don't practice shooting?

For fucks sake. Do they really believe that?

We might have drills that have shooting involved in them but no player above the age of about 14 practices shooting. There's no need to. They already know how to shoot.

Do you practice counting? Why not? It's a skill you use every day?
 
On phone so can't add much but damo and sweep are completely right and we practice shooting all the time

So if it's not a technical problem, is it an mental one? Are some of our attackers too anxious causing the misses. Fear of failure?
 

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