True
indeed goals win you games but a tight defence wins you titles but we still need a 20 league goals a season striker, the stats prove that to win the league you need a striker who will score @least 20 goals in the allotted 38 games in a premier league season!
Not exact matches
Good
win indeed, tuff game today (not targeting you by the way) scoring 4
goals Onward and upwards COYG!
Indeed a striker's primary objective is to score
goals not hold up play like Giroud, we need Giroud on the bench against Chelsea to increase our chances of
winning
Yes, Rooney's getting to play San Marino more than most, but then Charlton wasn't exactly shy about helping himself against teams that passed for minnows back then;
indeed, all four of his hat - tricks came in
wins by seven
goals or more.
Their form in the league wasn't great either, as they followed a 5 - 0 thumping of Aston Villa with disappointing draws with Chelsea and Everton, and were then beaten in a crucial game with Manchester United, who
won 3 - 2 at the Etihad Stadium with a last - minute winner from none other than Robin van Persie, who was
indeed making a huge difference in the title race, as his
goal put six points between league leaders United and City, giving Mancini's side a real uphill task to retain their title even before the half - way point of the season.
Possession is
indeed a useless stat, we beat Bayern 2 - 0 with only 30 % of the ball, Man United have the best possession stats this season yet they're only 5th on the table,
goals win games not possession!
Four
goals in three matches are
indeed a great return, but what jumps out is the number of tackles he has
won: four out of four.
Now I fully understand that these differences really only show up over a larger number of games but it surely suggests that if Santi's presence does
indeed mean that we create, over the long haul, one more big chance per game than I don't think it's unreasonable to presume that if over those three games we did create thee more big chances that we would have scored one more
goal and actually
won one of those games.
I take it the point of Tim's remark (and that whole paragraph) is that: (a) There's a perfectly legitimate sense we can make of «deserving» to
win / lose independent of the question of which team scored the most
goals (
indeed, this, I take it, is what you're referring to when you say they «outplayed» us).
Indeed, the Madrid No. 7 had to wait until mid-October for his first strike of the season, away to Getafe, and then went more than a month before doubling his tally with a
goal in November's 3 - 2 home
win over Málaga.
Palace haven't
won a league game against Manchester United since the 1990/91 season when an Ian Wright
goal along with two from John Salako sealed a memorable
win in what is no doubt our finest season in a top flight, a third - place finish and a Wembley
win in the legendary Zenith Data Systems Cup, halcyon days
indeed.
Aguero's performance was impressive
indeed as he bagged two
goals, but Pellegrini also believes that his team's success in getting the opener from Fabian Delph was key for their
win.
Indeed, Combs» feet - on - the - street credibility gives her an advantage as she sets out to tackle her
goals and
win the respect of Congress and NAR members, says Cathy Whatley of Jacksonville, Fla., who served as 2003 NAR president.