The more I think about this subject the more you realise that the way the team is set up and plays determines just how attacking you can be and therefore how many goalscoring opportunities the team produces. Let’s look at sone Facts ;
1. Historical
City aside, only really Liverpool and Arsenal last season have really scored 80 goals plus a season, Leicester and Chelsea have both won recent leagues with Less than 75 goals.
2. Change in game and formation
The key change to City was when pep bought Ederson after failing with other goalkeepers to play his high line, Liverpool did the same with Allison and now Arsenal with their new GK.
The GK pushing up, pushes the defence up where the 6 literally with inverted full backs now participate in 1-2-3-4-1 formation the goal keeper tries to occupy the space the CB’s and the whole back 4 did before, it means you dominate the ball, create intricate patterns of play and eventually over run your opposition. But you have to have two roaming number 8/10 hybrids behind your front three with inverted wide strikers. Your basically making sure you have 10 players to play in these 5 attacking positions. City have Haaland, C Palmer, P Fodden, I Gundogan, B Silva, KDB, Alvaro, Grealish, S Gomez and R Mahrez.
3. Team Goals responsibility, Even the defenders at City contribute because they are much higher up the pitch and spend more time attacking the opposition.
4. united would need 10 players to fill those front 5 positions of equal ability - Right now we have ; Martial, Rashford, Garnaucho, Antony, Sancho, Bruno, Ericsen, Pellistri, Mctominay, Elanga. You might say that you can carry a couple but that means if we keep Rashford, Bruno, Ericsen, Sancho, Garnaucho, Amad and Antony we are 3 top players from being 50% as good as City and maybe as good as Liverpool or Arsenal. If you add Mount, Kaine and R Hojlund and spend £200m you probably still only get 74-79 PL Goals.
