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Early goals

Kathryn

Kathryn

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Looking at the stats, it seems that when we score early goals, ie in the first 20 minutes, we go on to score 4. Rovers, Wigan, Brentford and today at QPR, we’ve scored early goals. When we don’t score early we seem to struggle. Is this a confidence issue?
 
There's definitely something in this. How many times this season have we been utterly dominant for the first 20 but not score and then go on to concede just be for half time and end up at best with a draw?
 
paddysr;n3424873 said:
There's definitely something in this. How many times this season have we been utterly dominant for the first 20 but not score and then go on to concede just be for half time and end up at best with a draw?
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I seem to remember that was a common complaint last season as well. This year we seem to be getting more early goals than before, though not as many as in the Moyes era. I used to win bets regularly back then by backing the time of the first goal as being between the 11-20th mins.
it is essential we take advantage in those early mins when we are on top.
 
Kathryn;n3424845 said:
Looking at the stats, it seems that when we score early goals, ie in the first 20 minutes, we go on to score 4. Rovers, Wigan, Brentford and today at QPR, we’ve scored early goals. When we don’t score early we seem to struggle. Is this a confidence issue?
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We scored two in the first 20 mins at home to Bolton and collapsed for a 2-2 draw.
 
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