Wilfried Bony

[eatonparkboy]

I do believe most was down to Hughton's style. With Lambert, Holt and even Morison and Jackson scored goals because any balls going into the box were outswinging because the delivery was from a right foot on the right wing and vice versa. Hughton had them crosses coming in inswinging and its a defenders ball 9/10.

We scored the most headed goals in the Prem under Lambert.

But having said that, RVW was an expensive marquee signing flop. No matter the service, you must score more than one.

 

[The Great Mass Debater]

Inverted wingers only offsets what you lose from crossing if both wingers carry a direct threat on goal - ie cutting in and shooting, the way Junior Hoilett did against us numerous times.

Perhaps rather than pointing the finger soley at the strikers, whose productivity will consequently go down, we should look at the goalscoring contributions of the inverted wingers. Redmond - 1. Im not sure how many Snodgrass scored from open play. Dont think Pilks counts because he played as both a conventional and inverted winger as he was genuinely two-footed. Snodgrass showed a lot more direct threat on goal in the second part of the season, but offered very little in the first. Redmond got off to a good start then didnt score again.

For what you lose in the crossing your wide players need to chip in a lot more. We'd have been better off with Redmond on the right