Sentences with word «goalscoring»

But it is still the sort of goalscoring record that most players would kill for — and almost exactly matches Manchester United and England captain Wayne Rooney, who has 170 in 316 starts.

Even if the Dutchman produces a headline - grabbing run of goalscoring form in the remaining five matches — realistically he is unlikely to be on the pitch that long despite returning to full fitness — the most likely scenario is that he is moved along, should his employers find a willing suitor.

The Belgian international has been in fine goalscoring form for Villa since returning from a long injury layoff earlier this season, and looks once again to be showing himself to be one of the finest forward players in the English top flight at the moment.

And it's not like we haven't been creating the chances, we top the charts for goalscoring opportunities and Santi Cazorla is apparently the top creative midfielder in Europe so far having completed 16 «key passes» on his own!

One of the two big decisions that the Frenchman had to make was up front, where he has rewarded Olivier Giroud for his recent form and goalscoring exploits with another start.

Tottenham had one of the most potent attacks in Harry Kane, who topped the Premier League goalscoring charts with 25 goals, and Dele Alli with whom he formed a formidable partnership with in attack.

He's kind of a bit shorter Welbeck with goalscoring abilities.

In turn, that will be a real concern for Klopp as he'll be desperate to see them avoid any injury setbacks of their own as that could leave Liverpool exposed at the back against the side with the best goalscoring record in the English top flight this season.

It will likely only infuriate supporters further if the speculation is true, with Van Gaal coming under immense scrutiny for the lack of goalscoring threat that his side has posed this season.

Despite lagging behind in terms of goalscoring prowess, does Gabriel Jesus fit Manchester City's style of play better than Sergio Aguero?

Liverpool dominated the game but could not score as they drew 0 - 0 with West Bromwich Albion, with the Reds still missing the superb goalscoring ability of last season's star player Luis Suarez, as well as the injury - prone Daniel Sturridge.

Only Mesut Ozil (378) has created more goalscoring chances for the Gunners in the Premier League since August 2014 than Sanchez (272).

Further, Doucoure has emerged also as goalscoring midfielder this season with the Frenchman notching an impressive seven goals thus far in the 2017/18 Premier League season.

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You don't have to look too far to see the effect on goalscoring if someone is played wide or out of position.

Branislav Ivanovic continued his impressive goalscoring run by coming up with a spectacular overhead kick for his current club Zenit St Petersburg in the Europa league.

Alexis Sanchez has been moved to centre - forward this term, and the move has brought the best out of Theo Walcott, as well as himself, while opening up space for Mesut Ozil to get into goalscoring opportunities more often also.

The Russian striker has been shown great faith by Mancini with his starting berth up front, in his favoured position, ahead of Artyom Dzyuba, their previous goalscoring machine.

Usually coupled with a deep - lying forward, the shadow striker aggressively pushes forward into goalscoring positions as the ball moves into the final third and look to close down opposing defenders when out of position.»

He may well be frustrated with his club's feeling to bring in another top goalscoring striker, and may well push for the exit door.

Walcott's fellow new - year signing Tosun is beginning to replicate his outstanding goalscoring feats for Besiktas in a blue shirt.

Nketiah has a fine goalscoring record at every level he has played, if he was at Monaco then I bet he would be starting and we would soon be reading about how Barca or RM are willing to spend # 50 + million on a «mere prospect».

It has been a terrible struggle so far this campaign for the west London club, who have found goalscoring desperately hard all campaign long, as these miserly stats demonstrate to the full.

But he also said that Egypt international Salah has got the better goalscoring return this season, but needs to prove it over a longer period.

Earning # 20,000 a week, the striker was seen as the answer to Villa's goalscoring problems and was deemed the «future» of the club.

Despite their status as goalscoring centre - forwards, both players play in fluid systems so are expected to contribute to build - up play.

See if Mo Salah can equal the 38 - game Premier League goalscoring record as Liverpool go to West Brom on Sky Sports Premier League from 11.30 am on Saturday

He could be required to take on more responsibility to create goalscoring opportunities against the USA, esp given the doubts over the fitness of former club teammate and captain Cristiano Ronaldo.

QPR fans on Twitter hailed Tjaronn Chery after he continued his impressive goalscoring form by earning Rangers a point with his penalty against Leeds United.

You should have said yeah sure yous should do the same, why don't yas take your top goalscoring threat out of midfield so yous wont have to watch him beat two or three men before rifling the back of net.

Despite defenders knowing what he will do when he runs with the ball on the left flank, it is surprisingly hard to defend against, hence the Belgian's great goalscoring record from out wide.

So good goalscoring options there for the Saints who have scored more headed goals this season than any other side in the top flight.

Ozil has provided three assists and created more goalscoring chances than anyone else in the Premier League this term, and Walcott says it is a pleasure to play alongside him.

While Real Madrid in general are doing that thing they do, winning football matches while wallowing in a dysfunctional slough, their best player is putting together what might turn out to be his finest goalscoring season in the Champions League.

According to The Mirror's John Cross, as seen in the tweet below, they continued to sing it away at Stoke City on Saturday, with Lukaku bagging his eighth goal of the season as he continues his impressive goalscoring streak for the Red Devils.

Wayne Rooney tied Sir Bobby Charlton's All - Time Goalscoring record on Saturday, as Manchester United ran rampant and gave former player Jaap Stam's side Reading a thorough beating at Old Trafford 4 - 0.

The Gunners, too, would hope that the player is able to showcase the kind of form that saw him become the Bundesliga top scorer last season, as they look to solve their own goalscoring woes upon the departure of Alexis Sanchez.

Striker: Harry Kane Spurs» star striker got back to goalscoring ways at Brighton on Tuesday after only recently returning from an ankle injury.

he'll make a prolific goalscoring winger for us.

It seems Ronaldo could be their chief target — but his Real Madrid career doesn't appear over just yet after more superb goalscoring form from him last season.

King enjoyed his most successful season at Dean Court last term, making 36 appearances for Eddie Howe's side, scoring 16 goals, making him an ideal target for Mauricio Pochettino, who is looking to sign a proven goalscoring striker.

I honestly think we have enough goalscoring talent in our team.

I looked at last post about people writing about Benzema's and Giroud's goalscoring tally being quite the same, labeling them on the same page and I can't believe how ignorant people are.

Note that a number 10 role or otherwise / previously known as mobile striker / come - strike / support - striker is a position that was created to help the conventional number 9 by goalscoring opportunities for him and helping him score as well... Ozil has done nothing to help Giroud in the scoring charts and as much as he's tried to assist I feel he's not doing enough for someone we bought for 42mil to play that role.

But now we need a younger early to mid 20's Top goalscoring forward (only exception is Ibrahimovic who is freakisly brilliant for his advanced years) like Lukaku, Icardi, Lacaette, Higuain, Greizmann, Reus, Aubemeyang, Mkthtaryan, Mahrez, Rodriguez, Lewandowski, (obviously we cant get Suarez, Bale, Messi, Ronaldo, Aguero, Kane and Neymar)

They have, though, shipped 24 goals in return with an away goalscoring ratio of 3:1, with the 3 being the amount of goals they concede before they actually find the goal themselves.

With an opportunity to link up with former teammate Henrikh Mkhitaryan as well as another creative playmaker in Mesut Ozil, Aubameyang will surely be relishing the thought of getting service from them to continue his prolific goalscoring rate.