Gazza M he seemed to have reached another level of polish with his one-on-one dribbling last season, but he has regressed to the scatter-gun dribbling of his earlier years
Not surprising when he, and Saka for that matter, are constantly up against set defences with not much movement around him. Also doesn't help that they don't get the ball early enough to do what he did for the goal against Fulham the other day. We play the wings, hardly any quick passing in zone 14 trying to play someone through.
Our attackers have been misfiring, for sure. They've missed a number of presentable half chances and need to take the blame for that. But they're half chances for the most part.
People were saying once Havertz gets some goals and confidence he'll start burying his chances, but can't see that our wide men, who have proven themselves as PL level goalscorers, aren't in the same boat when their confidence is low and having to snatch at their chance in the off chance it falls to them any given game.
Last season our players were very clinical, but that also came about because we created loads of chances at the start of the season and so had already built up good self confidence in the players minds that they will score given a chance. This year we get so few clear chances on average that, if missed, they start doubting themselves for letting the team down and wondering where the next chance will come from.
Actually the more I think of it, it reminds me of Adebayor 07/08, when he'd score a ton of goals as his confidence was sky high and getting loads of chances that he didn't sweat himself over the odd missed chance because he knew another was coming and that he'd been burying them. Soon as he became a bit part player and then moved on, he hardly scored goals.
