Timo should do what Salah did and practiced shooting at home.

Even Torres and Morata weren't this pathetic on finishing

His 1v1's are pretty much identical to Morata's, the difference between them is that Werner doesn't give up, but he has to do better. He's just hitting his shots straight at the keeper.

I’m feeling it, he’s going to grab sh*t load of goals from now to end of season. He’s looking really good and getting these chances, it’s only a matter of time until they start hitting back of the net 

He rushes to get the shot away when there is time to take a touch, seems worried about losing the ball in the box. Also tries to shoot through small gaps in the keeper rather than going for a more elaborate finish that's harder to save. He's anxious in the box and doesn't want to take risks, still has a way to go to getting back that confidence.

 

Even though he keeps missing some easy goals, I love the effort he puts and how he gets in between the lines dragging defenders out of place. He just needs to starting converting goals and he’ll scare the crap out of many teams’ defenders.

Just now, RMH said:

Even though he keeps missing some easy goals, I love the effort he puts and how he gets in between the lines dragging defenders out of place. He just needs to starting converting goals and he’ll scare the crap out of many teams’ defenders.

Yes, I actually love the other aspects of his play. It's a pity he can't hit a barn door at the moment.

21 minutes ago, Deino said:

Yes, I actually love the other aspects of his play. It's a pity he can't hit a barn door at the moment.

Do you mean having a bad first touch and losing the ball and not completing passes? If you like his energy, then as has been said before in this thread, we could have found a much cheaper option in the Championship or even someone for free from this forum to lace up their boots!

Head down, put foot through ball. Rinse and repeat. 

Needs to actually get his head up, breathe, and then pick a spot. 

Composure is all over the place. 

Could easily have 10 more goals this season, hopefully the hard work will eventually pay off.

1 hour ago, dansubrosa said:

I’m feeling it, he’s going to grab sh*t load of goals from now to end of season. He’s looking really good and getting these chances, it’s only a matter of time until they start hitting back of the net 

Feeling it too - maybe not as soon as you say but it’s coming. Just a question of building experience and confidence. My memory may be failing me, but didn’t Drogba miss quite a lot when he first joined us? 

For me, he needs a bit of guile.

One sticks out for me today gets the ball on the right side of the box with just Pickford to beat and with his right just hits it at him with no angle.

He had time, why didn't he feint a shot to see if Pickford committed himself.

Disappointing yet at least his work rate is high.

The compilation of his misses this season can be seen as bad or good. Bad, he doesn’t seem to have composure and can’t hit a barn door. Good, he’s getting brilliant chances and if he can find that killer instinct he’d be up there for the golden boot. I thought that, despite he should have scored twice tonight, he was impressive the movement and pressing he got through was very good. If he can just bring it all together

1 hour ago, zolawannabe25 said:

The compilation of his misses this season can be seen as bad or good. Bad, he doesn’t seem to have composure and can’t hit a barn door. Good, he’s getting brilliant chances and if he can find that killer instinct he’d be up there for the golden boot. I thought that, despite he should have scored twice tonight, he was impressive the movement and pressing he got through was very good. If he can just bring it all together

I thought his link up play was good too, especially with Havertz. 

Werner missing chances is incredibly frustrating, but at least he isn't looking completely hopeless like Morata and Torres.

He has time on his side, I'm hoping he uses this season as a learning experience and really kicks on next season. He still has a chance to finish with 10+ goals in the prem and 15 goals and 10+ assists by the end of season. Which all in all would be a good debut season.

Has to start scoring these chances.  He has a knack of making the simple look very complicated.  Still believe in him - no substitute for pace, which he has to burn, and his positional play is also very good.  Perhaps some shooting practice!  I just wish he could slow things down around him when shooting - rare gift for great strikers.

7 hours ago, Dean said:

Feeling it too - maybe not as soon as you say but it’s coming. Just a question of building experience and confidence. My memory may be failing me, but didn’t Drogba miss quite a lot when he first joined us? 

Drogba really only had two good goal scoring seasons the entire time he was with us. And he wasn't rotated !

1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

Drogba really only had two good goal scoring seasons the entire time he was with us. And he wasn't rotated !

Drogba isn't a fantastic goal getter but that doesn't matter, he lead the line very2 well, he can create and play lone striker with no help 

5 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

Drogba isn't a fantastic goal getter but that doesn't matter, he lead the line very2 well, he can create and play lone striker with no help 

Yes indeed - he had lots of huge qualities beyond simply goal scoring ... bit if you are judging a forward on goal scoring (like Werner seems to be) then Drogba was less than a goal every two games ...

Similarly there is more to Werner's game than just goals ... but I think we'd all take prime Drogba ahead of Werner.

Having said that, I think of all our Roman era strikers, the one I'd most like to see in the current line up is Hernan Crespo 🙂

Edited March 9, 20215 yr by Sexyfootball

I don't care if an attacker cannot score or produce number if he offer a lot of other stuff like Willian. Very2 easy to incorporate to the team. 

Werner on the other hand is a nightmare. All of his strength point to goal getter yet his conversion rate is horrific. 

2 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Yes indeed - he had lots of huge qualities beyond simply goal scoring ... bit if you are judging a forward on goal scoring (like Werner seems to be) then Drogba was less than a goal every two games ...

Similarly there is more to Werner's game than just goals ... but I think we'd all take prime Drogba ahead of Werner.

Having said that, I think of all our Roman era strikers, the one I'd most like to see in the current line up is Hernan Crespo 🙂

The problem is you can't judge his non goalscoring atributes otherwise he is bench warmer material.

 

 

28 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

The problem is you can't judge his non goalscoring atributes otherwise he is bench warmer material.

 

 

Well you can ... quite objectively as it happens ... 🙂

 

11 hours ago, Butterhampton FC said:

Do you mean having a bad first touch and losing the ball and not completing passes? If you like his energy, then as has been said before in this thread, we could have found a much cheaper option in the Championship or even someone for free from this forum to lace up their boots!

Energy and desire to attack primarily. That alone makes defenses do a double take. He's a good decoy at the moment

57 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Well you can ... quite objectively as it happens ... 🙂

 

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Do you have minutes played? 

Because on top of my head timo must have played at least double amount of minutes  compare to other attacker (that doesn't include Mount,Mount play as cm under lamp 99%) 

I really appreciate his effort, his pressing and fighting for the team. Not many strikers knows how to play like a pressing striker. But at the end of the day we needs goals. 

I still believe he's a very good player, especially striker. He is motivated and he wants to prove himself to the league, he is there to play and missing some luck.

This season is his first one to learn the league, to understand how tough the defenders are here and the teams. Next season would be a huge test for him.

 

His game is improving, apart from the finishing. From what I have seen, he scored plenty of goals smashing it early and hard, worked out well for him in the German league, but EPL had better Goalkeepers. The first 1 on 1 against Pickford, he could have walked the ball past the GK, instead he picks the only option the GK could  deal with it. He's getting those through balls, his first touch is getting better, all he needs is to pick better option and finish those big chances off.

34 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

Do you have minutes played?

I am sure you can find it via Google if you need to know that ... the point stands that Werner has the most assists in the PL for us to date this season.