Carlos Corberan not worried by lack of a consistent goalscorer at West Brom
Carlos Corberan admits he is not worried about West Brom and their lack of a top goal-scorer in their Championship playoff chase.
The Baggies’ form has taken a dramatic turn in recent weeks after their impressive resurgence under Corberan, winning just one of their last four games in the league.
Much of that has been down to their lack of goals in attack with Corberan’s striking duo Brandon Thomas-Asante and Daryl Dike netting just eight goals between them all season.
The Baggies come up against the league’s top scorer in Chuba Akpom who’s already got 20 to his name, but Corberan doesn’t his players’ lowly totals and insists the priority is creating chances.
Speaking ahead of the Middlesbrough clash [via Express & Star, 25 February]: he admitted: “The most important thing is to score goals and not concede, if you have one player that can score 20 goals, that is unbelievable.
“If you need to share 20 goals between two players, that is good too. If you need three or four, the most important thing is that you find the goals, this is key in football.
“Sometimes we talk about performance and other things but one thing changes football games, goals. Goals change games. You can be working and performing very well but if you don’t score, in the end, the opponent will always have something.
Huge concern
In the Championship’s testing playoff chase, a team always has the best chance if they have a striker who knows where the goal is.
West Brom don’t have that luxury right now, hence their drop in results and performance levels.
Most of the clubs above them in the table possess strikers with 10+ goals this season, providing them with every chance of making the playoffs.
The Baggies do possess a striker who’s been clinical at this level before in Karlan Grant who’s bagged 40 goals in his previous three Championship campaigns but the Spaniard has been hesitant to start him ahead of Thomas-Asante and Dike this season which could ultimately hurt their chances.
However, Corberan is right in that the goals must be shared across the whole team, but even that’s not happening. Who will the Spaniard turn to in the coming weeks?
In other West Brom news, Jed Wallace has shared what Corberan told the players after defeat to Watford.