You cannot expect any Forward to score unless he is being fed with quality balls put into the right places, we could have Van Persie playing for us and he would struggle to score if he wasn't getting the service, neither Soldado or Defoe are what you would call tall, Soldado 5ft 10 1/2 and Defoe 5ft 7 in, they are both goal sneaks and in order to be effective they need a strike partner to feed off, I have said so often 1-4-5-1 just doesn't work unless you have a quality playmaker, (eg Modric or VdV) which is something that we do not have, on Wed Defoe was showing his frustration, as has Soldado in previous games and this will continue until AVB either changes the format to 1-4-4-2 or buys a quality playmaker, playing 5 across midfield is effective defensively, but once we get into our attacking third they get in each others way, and the attack breaks down, Wed when Holtby received the ball from Walker, he almost had the ball taken off his toe by Townsend, and it was only his sheer determination to have a shot that resulted in him scoring the winner, and this is happening week in and week out (players getting in each others way). So AVB its time for a change of game-plan otherwise I think you will find you might well be shown the door and no I am not advocating that that is what should happen.
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