Another chance for Cardiff City to score a goal having failed in the first three games of this new season, two league games and one cup game but no need to panic, yet!
We are only three games into the season along with our newest boss Paul Trollope it is a long way to go but fans are rumbling with talk of former boss Russel Slade as a god. Oh, the fickleness a football fans.
Been the nerd as I am I decided to look into the inability of Cardiff City strikers to score a meaningful amount of goals. Last season Anthony Pilkington was top of the goals tree but he wasn’t a striker more a midfield/winger player according to stats. He was made an emergency striker last season due to the lack of strikers at the Cardiff City Stadium scoring nine goals.
Slade sold Joe Mason who up until the January transfer window was the top goal scorer at the club and then loaned out Tony Watt, Kenwyne Jones, and Alex Revell in the January window. He brought in Kenneth Zohore from K.V. Kortrijk who made little impact at the club on loan until the end of the season.
The season before Pilkington striker Kenwyne Jones was top goal scorer with 15 league goals plus 2 more in cup games a fairly health total of league goals. In our brief visit to the Premier League in a season, the whole team managed 30 goals Midfielder Jordon Mutch scored seven yes a grand total of seven. While striker Fraizer Campbell converted six goals in total three of which were cup goals petty poor.
The last time we had strikers to scream about was in 2010/11 season with Jay Bothroyd scoring 18 league goals with Bellamy and Chopra on 11 and 9 respectively. They were heady days when fans overall were happy Datuk Chan Tien Ghee was chairman taking over from Peter Ridsdale and a play-off finish. Defeat to Reading in the play-off saw the fans miss possibly the greatest ever South Wales derby against Swansea that would have been played on foreign soil at Wembley in the Play-off final.
Tonight Blackburn Rovers are visiting South Wales, bottom of the league table after just two games but have let in seven goals in those two games. Even our strikers can’t fail to join the party or could they. I for one was hoping the club were unleashing a loin in Trollope playing football to excite.
However, from what I have read from other fans on social media they are being put to sleep. Maybe it is an early season hiccup which will end tonight and lion wakes tonight .
"We didn't fire in and around their box and didn't create the chances our play deserved," Trollope said.
"It's something we work on and will continue to work on and we're learning all the time.
"We scored pretty well through pre-season and created chances and our strikers scored during that period.
"It's been three frustrating games."
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