by Sabre » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:31 pm
Scoring goals is like being with girls mate. When you find a girl friend, there are lots of girls that are interested on you. But when you're alone, they wouldn't call you to know how you are doing.
Finishing goals is not a science, it's a matter of going through a bad patch, or a good patch. It's a matter of confidence often, and a bit of luck. Morientes is having a good start now in Spain, but then he might get stuck now. He was, for what I know before he came to Liverpool a good finisher, but then he didn't show what he was capable of except in a couple of matches (BM is right)
My point is that I'm unable at the moment to say if they have that finishing ability or not. At first glance, it seems to me that Kuyt is a better finisher than Bellamy. Not because he scored, but because I saw him hesitating less when trying to finish regardless the ball entered or not. If there's a position in which you can't think that's the striker position when you're about to finish. I saw Bellamy hesitating twice, once in the failed chip, and another one in the first half, after a great inner ball that sent by LG, he was in the left side of the goal, and hesitated, then tried to finish with his right foot shooting at the second post, but the goalie had covered most of the gap in that moment. If that hesitation is a matter of his state of confidence now, or something usual I don't know. I'm pretty sure we've bought two good strikers, not sure if they'll be the "goal poacher" kind. For that anyway, we still have Fowler.
Anyway, don't get me wrong, I rate Bellamy, and I think he's necessary in this team, he does a lot of harm, and he'll bring a good amount of goals because he'll have the chances. Torres is a player that fails more one on ones than anybody but since he manages to have chances often (the team played for him) he always has his share of goals. Bellamy's pace and work will provide him chances and goals. And he's a very useful player for our team, I don't have any doubts about that right now.
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