I think they were 2 different games. We dominated the ball v Blues and should have won with the shots on goal and goalscoring opportunities. It was very even v Brentford and their midfielders showed they were on the same level skill wise, we still could've drawn it.
I believe most teams in the division would swap their midfielders for ours especially Pereira, Krovinovic, Diangana, Robinson, Sawyers.
Ask if most teams would swap their strikeforce for ours? I think the answer is no, so what does that say?
If you're a midfielder and there's little movement ahead of you, what do you do? Take pot shots yourself? Put a hopeful cross in? Pass to someone else to evade responsibility.
Rewind back to Middlesbrough (H) over Xmas, I remember a host of crosses going into the box aiming for one man against 3 or 4 defenders. The problem is a lack of movement from the strikers deployed.
I agree most (if not all) teams have at least 1 striker that is better than our 3 (on goals scored anyway).
We have still scored the 2nd highest amount in the division though so our goal drought isn't just down to the strikers lack of movement, it's more that the goals from elsewhere have also dried up because we aren't creating anything. We aren't shooting from distance much anymore and our set pieces have been poor.
Lack of movement isn't always the issue though. If crosses are going into the box and we only have one player in the box (the striker) then I'd argue it's a lack of support from midfield etc that's the problem rather than any movement from the striker. If the likes of Pereira, Robinson,Phillips, Diangana, Krovinovic were joining either Austin/HRK/Zohore we'd have more chance of scoring.
Lack of movement from the strikers was definitely an issue against Blues but in the first half against Brentford HRK got nothing to do anything with which was more down to the creative players not creating anything.
We looked a lot better for 15/20 mins in the second half after the introduction of Krovinovic and the change to 4-3-3, I just think we should have kept HRK as he may have made more of the opportunities we created, although Zohore was unlucky hitting the bar.
We definitely need to change the way we are playing and I'd stick with Krovinovic in for Phillips and a 4-3-3 line up. When we played well in February Krovinovic linked up well with both Robinson and Townsend so maybe it's time we brought Townsend back in for Gibbs too.