What about the one Mbokani missed yesterday from 6 yards, I could have scored that! There's a case for all of them to get better, just saying!
I don't think he missed one? It was on target and took an excellent save from the 'keeper. He could have done better perhaps by not giving the 'keeper a chance, but that is not missing a sitter
The point is he didn't miss though. And I don't really consider any shot where the 'keeper is in the way a sitter - it really has to be an open goal.
He's a striker, it's his job to score, he didn't, missed chance in my book. Would you still have the same opinion if that was Jerome??, I doubt it some how.
I would actually. Jerome misses the target normally though. I can see we won't agree, so there's probably not much point, but suffice to say that all the commentary about that particular shot focused on the brilliance of Darlow's save, rather than the fact that Mbokani should probably have finished. Another 'keeper and he would have done, so I put that down as unlucky rather than missing a sitter. It wasn't an open goal. But I understand what you're getting at - we simply do not have a truly clinical striker, but then if we did we wouldn't be in this position! The fact remains that Mbokani is comfortably our most clinical striker at the moment.
Redmond has played 2074 minutes this season, to Mbokani's 1342. Redmond is also not a striker. (For reference, Jerome has 1592 mins) I don't think the argument here is that any of our strikers are perfect, clearly if we had someone scoring like Defoe, Ighalo, even Mitrovic, we'd be in a better position. But next season we will have 3/4 strikers, is CJ good enough to make that group if we're in the Premier League?
Simple answer is NO, he isn't, but on current form none of or strikers are, so I don't see why people want to make him a scapegoat!
Because we sold Grabban He has also played a lot more minutes than any of our other 'strikers', but to be fair, the service to him has been abysmal!!!!!
As I said, I'm not saying he's perfect, but he's the best of what we've got. Ultimately his goal scoring rate is 1 every 268 minutes or so. Which means that if he had played every minute of every game he'd be on course for 12/13 for the season. Very respectable. Redmond is well behind that. 8 for the season or so (still decent) but then he's not a striker obviously and had a lucky streak at the beginning of the season.
That can't be the official criterion to measure ability at Carrow Rd, otherwise we'd not have sold Hooper to Sheff Weds. I don't have an issue with any of our strikers... We get so few chances it's not a surprise we go without occasionally. Our win at WBA 2 weeks ago came with one strike on goal.
This season, for comparison, this is the sort of company Mbokani is keeping in terms of minutes per goal ratio (I've highlighted some of the more interesting names - the ones above Mbokani have a better ratio, ones below worse):
when is that calculated JK because as far as I can tell, Grabban has scored only once this season (against Arsenal and a bloody useful goal it was too...)
Good point Rob. That is only showing the minutes he's played for Norwich, if you include his time at Bournemouth this season too, it's a goal every 513 minutes!
Just seen the stats for the Newcastle game, our passing accuracy was 67.5%, not brilliant considering the Geordies was 78.5%, they did have slightly more possession, but its an area we need to improve on!
