Why Are We Scoring So many Goals This Season?

The main reason to score so many goals this time is that the team is playing as a team. No one is greedy to try to score goals when they know their chance of scoring is minimal unlike Tevez.

All the players try to pass the ball to a player who has best chance of scoring rather than trying and wasting the ball
 
Gizew said:
The main reason to score so many goals this time is that the team is playing as a team. No one is greedy to try to score goals when they know their chance of scoring is minimal unlike Tevez.

All the players try to pass the ball to a player who has best chance of scoring rather than trying and wasting the ball
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This.

As great a player as Tévez was, he was a greedy so-and-so, who very rarely passed to a team-mate in a better position.

This season, when we attack, it is in numbers, and with players, who are happy to bring each other into the game.
 
Roberto Mancini...plain and simple. Last year we were still very much a work in progress. Mancini (and the backroom staff) worked hard to make us impregnable as the first step of the plan and he damned near did. This was to give us the confidence we urgently needed as opposed to previous seasons. Imo third place was a bonus and the F.A. cup was beyond expectations. The fact that we achieved both seems to have galvanised the team and strengthened Mancinis resolve. Its been a long standing tactic of his to use success in cup competitions to take respective clubs forwards to greater things.

Mancini has instilled in these players a belief that we can beat anyone on our day. The proof is obvious in the improvement in Dzeko, Balo, Silva, Milner, Richards and many more. The belief is infectious and it translates into goals...and lots of them.
 
alib said:
what are we doing differently this season than last?

my thoughts...............

- not playing De Jong means we play an extra attacking midfielder

- no Tevez means the goals are more evenly spread round the team

- stronger squad means better quality subs to bring on late on when the opposition tire , hence the glut of second half goals

any other thoughts?
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We're retaining the ball far more. We're creating better movement, thus more space and thus quicker passing. This has a knock-on affect of being in better positions in the last third. Our full backs are being more effective as extra midfielders. Tevez isn't playing so there's more interchange play between all the other players instead of him hogging the ball. Players like Silva, Džeko, Balotelli and Milner have improved and settled into the side. Other players like Agüero and Nasri have added extra threats (just wait until they settle in and improve, we'll be frightening!). Everyone seems to fully understand the system and the game plan (since around April this year) and so everyone knows whatthwyre doing, Mancini's plan is being understood and working.

I don't get your point about de Jong because in the last two games he's played in we've won 2-5 and 4-1!
 
more one-twos in the final third and outside the box.

fullbacks overlapping more often

the magnificence of el mago
 
lots of reasons, the signing of two attacking players in aguero and nasri, the signing of clichy as a wing back, and the continued improvement and mounting confidence of richards, kolarov and lescott in defence. balotelli and dzeko settling in to the epl. barry playing his best and milner starting to show the form that convinced city to buy him.


but the main reason is bob`s confidence in the squads defensive ability allowing him to take the handbrake off in the belief we are strong enough not to be overly worried about the others teams attacking prowess.


who`s needs that head down, blinkers on, one man, headless chicken, goal scoring machine, that is carlos (100% effort, 100% prick) tevez.
 
All of the above but we are about to hit a run of the more difficult teams...Arsenal / Liverpool / Chelsea / Newcastle (?)
 
IMO, the entire league has changed, and it's because we're seeing tighter refereeing. What were previously borderline tackles from the side or behind are now often a yellow. And the whistle blows more often for Illegal contact from behind, pushes, and small close range fouls. This has changed the balance of the game a bit. Managers come up with tactics to capitalise. Generally it seems that central, deep lying playmakers are being preferred to athletic runners and tacklers, because there are fewer athletic spoilers to stop them, and passing the ball into a forward's feet now creates an awkward situation for the defence. Crashing into him from behind, or try to get your foot round the side and onto the ball is very risky.
 
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