SHA Small Heath Alliance

Ribeye

bluer than blues

I do think the crosses across the face of goal have gone down since Laird got injured. Roberts cuts inside and Iwata doesn't get quite as deep as Laird.

I do agree though that at this point it's mostly on Kyogo. I've backed him for a long time but he's had more than enough clear cut chances. He could easily have 10 goals already. TBF to him, according to the BBC and CD's comments, he seems to want to stay and fight, which is a positive.

10 goals? I'd say 4 absolute maximum.

number8

No, he should have at least 6 or 7 based on the absolute pearlers he's missed.

bluearmyfaction

number8

No, he should have at least 6 or 7 based on the absolute pearlers he's missed.

His xG is 4.9. But he only gets a quarter of his big chances on target...

Ribeye

bluer than blues

I do think the crosses across the face of goal have gone down since Laird got injured. Roberts cuts inside and Iwata doesn't get quite as deep as Laird.

I do agree though that at this point it's mostly on Kyogo. I've backed him for a long time but he's had more than enough clear cut chances. He could easily have 10 goals already. TBF to him, according to the BBC and CD's comments, he seems to want to stay and fight, which is a positive.

10 goals? I'd say 4 absolute maximum.

ForeverFrancis

Ribeye

bluer than blues

I do think the crosses across the face of goal have gone down since Laird got injured. Roberts cuts inside and Iwata doesn't get quite as deep as Laird.

I do agree though that at this point it's mostly on Kyogo. I've backed him for a long time but he's had more than enough clear cut chances. He could easily have 10 goals already. TBF to him, according to the BBC and CD's comments, he seems to want to stay and fight, which is a positive.

10 goals? I'd say 4 absolute maximum.

He's had six one on ones with the goal keeper alone this season and fluffed his lines on all off them .

I think people forget how many chances he has had/missed because he has been playing off the bench in recent weeks .It's not like he hasn't been getting chances .He's had two disallowed goals, hit the woodwork twice and missed at least a dozen good chances .I'd say 4 or 5 of them were sitters.

He's had three games where he could have had a hat trick , granted one was in the league cup .

He should be our leading goal scorer and have more goals than Stansfield .

I'm still behind him,hopefully today's his day up the Kyogo 💙👍

Bluetone

I want him to succeed so badly, but even if he had scored 4-5 by now there would still be big arguments that we haven't got value for money from him.

I respect the fact that he wants to put it right where as its easy to save face and go back to Celtic.

Bagel

ForeverFrancis

Ribeye

bluer than blues

I do think the crosses across the face of goal have gone down since Laird got injured. Roberts cuts inside and Iwata doesn't get quite as deep as Laird.

I do agree though that at this point it's mostly on Kyogo. I've backed him for a long time but he's had more than enough clear cut chances. He could easily have 10 goals already. TBF to him, according to the BBC and CD's comments, he seems to want to stay and fight, which is a positive.

10 goals? I'd say 4 absolute maximum.

He's had six one on ones with the goal keeper alone this season and fluffed his lines on all off them .

I think people forget how many chances he has had/missed because he has been playing off the bench in recent weeks .It's not like he hasn't been getting chances .He's had two disallowed goals, hit the woodwork twice and missed at least a dozen good chances .I'd say 4 or 5 of them were sitters.

He's had three games where he could have had a hat trick , granted one was in the league cup .

He should be our leading goal scorer and have more goals than Stansfield .

I'm still behind him,hopefully today's his day up the Kyogo 💙👍

One on ones are like 40% scored if I remember rightly, maybe less.

What I'll say is, while he is massively underachieving xG, this rarely happens to players *long term*.

Calvert-Lewin at the start of the year was missing sitter after sitter, and now can't stop scoring. The statistician take is that Kyogo keeps taking good shots, and as such over time should revert to the mean and start scoring. He didn't underperform xG at Celtic.

HOWEVER

when you watch him, he doesn't seem to strike the ball properly. His post-shot xG (essentially, how likely were his actual shots to go in based on placement - top corner would be 0.99 or something) is awful, and his actual ball striking has been shocking, at least when he's onside.

tldr: the statistician in me says he'll start scoring eventually. The Blues fan is definitely not so sure

Fat Buddha OBE

I do think the crosses across the face of goal have gone down since Laird got injured. Roberts cuts inside and Iwata doesn't get quite as deep as Laird.

I do agree though that at this point it's mostly on Kyogo. I've backed him for a long time but he's had more than enough clear cut chances. He could easily have 10 goals already. TBF to him, according to the BBC and CD's comments, he seems to want to stay and fight, which is a positive.

I can’t argue that he should have bagged a couple but he clearly isn't as bad as people are making out. I simply don’t believe he's missed 10 or 20 big chances, or whatever figure gets plucked out of someone's arse.

Can’t really argue we aren’t playing to his strengths either. One of the things I like about him as opposed to say, Hogan is that he is finding the space to be getting chances, he is getting chances (not BIG chances) with pretty limited minutes on the pitch. So somethings working. He is being found by the midfield maestros.

It’s a fecking conundrum is what it is..

I still love tha bastard.

Super Hans

5 absolute sitters sounds about right, then a couple of harder chances you'd expect a top striker at this level to take.