Goals Goals Goals

Had a very interesting conversation with my brother.

Teams that won their respective leagues in the past: Bayern, Dortmund, Barcelona, Ac Milan, Lille, Porto, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal in 2003/04 and etc.

Teams that won their respective leagues that one thing in common which are: consistent Goal-scorers.

If you are playing a 4-2-3-1/ 4-3-3 Formation. You must have your starting central striker scoring consistently every season. An average of 15-30 Goals. Your second choice main striker also must contribute 5 to 15 goals a season.

Whereas your Winger/Attacking Midfielder must contribute an average of 5 to 15 Goals, per season.

Let's look at some examples.

In 2010/2011 Bundesliga
Borussia Dortmund have:
Strikers: 1st choice striker: Lucas Barrios- 16 Goals. 2nd choice striker: Lewandowski- 8 Goals
Wingers/ Attacking Midfield: Kagawa - 8 Goals. Großkreutz 8 Goals. Götze 6 Goals.
All these goal scoring, help Dortmund to their 7th Bundesliga Tittle.

In 2010/2011 Ligue 1
Lille:
Striker: Moussa Sow: 25 Goals
Wingers: Gervinho: 15 Goals. Eden Hazard 7 Goals
All these Goals help Lille to their first Ligue 1 tittle.

In: 2009/2010 BPL
Chelsea:
Strikers: Drogba 29 Goals. Anelka 11 goals
Wingers/Attacking Midfield: Malouda 12 goals. Fat Frank: 22 Goals
Yes all these goals helped them to win the BPL.

2008/2009 La Liga
Barcelona:
Striker: Eto 30 something goals. Bojan: 10 goals
Wingers/ Attacking midfielders: Henry 28 Goals. Messi 30+ Goals. Hleb None.
Free flowing goals helped them to win the la liga it's a consistent formula for Barcelona since Pep took over.

All these teams won league tittles because of consisted goal scorers.
If you are playing a:
4-4-2:
Both Strikers: a total of 30 goals from both of them. Or even one of them.
Wingers/Attacking Midfielder: total 5 to 25 goals from all of the starting players

4-3-3 or a 4-2-3-1
Starting Central Striker: 15 to 30 goals. Back up striker 5 to 15 goals.
Wingers: 5 to 15 goals per winger.

So if Arsenal wants to win the League. We need consistent goal scorers. So far that Van is the man.

Walcott can't do the job.

Gervinho I believe slowly he can give Arsenal the 10 to 15 goals a season. Has the ability. I see why Arsene brought him.

The Ox as well, slowly he will be that player who can give us goals when we need them the most.

Arshavin is a shade of his former self. His first 12 League games for Arsenal, he scored 6. Imagined if he had that kind of form today.

Chamakh again another player low on confidence.

Overall Arsenal's main problem is goal scoring.

Goals to come from. if Arsenal or any team wants to win the League.
Main Striker: 15 to 30 Goals
Back-up Striker: 5 to 10/15 goals

Left Winger: 10 to 15 goals
Right Winger: 5 to 15 goals
Total back-up Wingers: 5 Goals

Attacking Midfield: 5 to 10 goals
Defensive Midfield 4 to 8 goals.
Back up midfield players: 2 to 4 goals

Total Goals from back 4: 5 to 10 Goals.

Overall goals: 70+ per-season.

The team that always win the Barclays Premier League. Scored more that 70 Goals in that Winning Season. Ever-since 1995.

I'll talk about defensive stats sometime around Next Week.