Yeah, because our opponents have failed to convert opportunities at an immense rate. Our xGA ranks us as one of the worse teams in the league.
No, it wouldn't. It's right in the middle of the pack and being better than bottom half teams is hardly anything to shout about (and we are actually worse than Everton and Brentford even).
As for fit striker, Hojlund has started 20 out of 28 games this season, we have had our wingers available almost without fail, Bruno has been around all season. If anything we've been quite lucky with injuries among our offensive players.
I get what you’re saying I really do but I just disagree. A lot of the xG we’re conceding is high volume low quality chances. Which rightly or wrongly is by design.
With 24/5 different defensive combinations and our best striker being 21, unfit at the start of the season and only playing 58% of our PL minutes I think it’s absolutely understandable why our attack isn’t flying. So it’s a bit worse than starts or appearances would suggest. At the moment we have no striker. We have played several games now with no striker.
I agree we’ve been generally fine for winger fitness (as in nothing id consider by this point ridiculously unlucky) but we still had rotation options out for other reasons (Antony).
Hojlund has started 20 games, and you are insane if you think we should be 13th best in the league.
We have had Rashford, Bruno, Garnacho, Antony (his 85m marquee signing) available for virtually all games while having Hojlund in the squad for 75% of time. There's no way we should be creating and scoring so few goals.
Insane? Do we need to resort to personal insult for a difference of opinion?
Having someone in the squad and having someone in top condition able to make a sustained impact and contribution are two very different things. If you’re only on the pitch for 58% of the time you can’t contribute as much as:
- Salah 72
- Haaland 76
- Son 82
All playing significantly more minutes (and far better players)