Why Chelsea still need a proven goalscorer – Talk Chelsea

We’ve been rightly honing in on the errors that led to Arsenal’s comeback on Saturday to throw away a 2-0 lead. These particular person errors and poor defending proved expensive and triggered us to attract a recreation that ought to have been an enormous victory for us.

We’ve all been talking about these errors, which had been horrible. But in addition, there was an opportunity for us to essentially put the sport to mattress by going 3-0 up earlier than Arsenal obtained their first aim again. And actually, this has been a part of why we’ve got but to see sustained success this season – the way in which we’ve got been so wasteful in entrance of aim.

Nicolas Jackson got here on as a sub on Saturday and in virtually his first involvement he ought to have scored and put Chelsea 3-0 up, which might have ended the sport just about.

Even when Robert Sanchez determined to mind fart after that, I’d have nonetheless been assured we wouldn’t concede three targets to throw it away in lower than quarter-hour left on the clock.

Former Chelsea attacker Shaun Wright-Phillips highlighted it:

“You possibly can see no matter Mauricio Pochettino is doing at Chelsea is working, it’s nearly placing the ball behind the web. If Nicolas Jackson scores that probability [vs Arsenal] the sport is over, however he tries to go around the goalkeeper and there’s additionally confidence.”

’m not utilizing this to hammer Jackson, removed from it. I’m utilizing this to again up my view that we merely HAVE to signal a brand new and confirmed striker with expertise in January – if we actually wish to problem for the Champions League. My opinion has not modified on this all through, and I don’t suppose it’s going to.

Jackson is a creating participant who for me remains to be studying his commerce, and that’s high-quality. However Chelsea want a real goalscoring quantity 9 for the right here and now as effectively, and Jackson has not been doing that after 9 video games in.

Armando Broja I’ve all the time had issues with due to his lengthy spell out, and people issues have already come to fruition with him getting injured once more and struggling with fatigue/lack of match health already. I don’t imagine his newest setback to be something severe, however nonetheless.

Shaun Wright-Phillips continued:

“Chelsea want a no-nonsense striker. It doesn’t must look good, it simply must hit the again of the web. They miss a Drogba-like participant, simply to place the ball within the aim.”

We’d like that particular kind of striker who we’ve got no doubts will are available and rating targets proper now, and for me that’s Ivan Toney.

I nonetheless suppose Jackson will come good and I see his skills, for sure. But it surely’s simple to neglect that he has solely simply turned 22 and remains to be a younger and inexperienced participant. We have to give him a while to develop extra, and I do suppose he’ll get lots higher as we transfer on. However we even have to consider the right here and the now, as a result of financially, and never simply financially, the membership see Champions League soccer as massively necessary. Keep in mind, a few of our sponsorship offers for subsequent season depend upon it.

And one other factor to recollect is we lose Jackson for a piece of the season for AFCON quickly.