Sedgley Gold N Black
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I was going to post this as a response but possibly worthy of its own thread.
I know many feel we lack goals and/or that 20 goal a year striker and see that as an essential for promotion however...
Last season the two best defences went up automatically.
Fulham and Norwich were joint top scorers with Newcastle and finished 6th and 8th.
Along with the two mentioned above, 10th placed Brentford scored more goals than 2nd placed Brighton.
Huddersfield went up scoring just 56 goals, the second lowest scorers in the top 12 with even Forest scoring more.
The season before all three teams with the best defence went up, where as 2 of the 3 joint top scorers didn't, one finished 9th with again one of the sides going up scoring less goals than a team in the bottom 5.
Season before that the top 4 contained 4 of the best 5 defences.
I don't think this will have passed Nuno by and is probably what's behind his approach this summer.
I know many feel we lack goals and/or that 20 goal a year striker and see that as an essential for promotion however...
Last season the two best defences went up automatically.
Fulham and Norwich were joint top scorers with Newcastle and finished 6th and 8th.
Along with the two mentioned above, 10th placed Brentford scored more goals than 2nd placed Brighton.
Huddersfield went up scoring just 56 goals, the second lowest scorers in the top 12 with even Forest scoring more.
The season before all three teams with the best defence went up, where as 2 of the 3 joint top scorers didn't, one finished 9th with again one of the sides going up scoring less goals than a team in the bottom 5.
Season before that the top 4 contained 4 of the best 5 defences.
I don't think this will have passed Nuno by and is probably what's behind his approach this summer.