The same issue that most of our best players have had all season. They pass to 80% of the team and either get a **** pass back or we lose the ball. You can't expect RvP to look great when he is coming back to deep midfield to get the ball and the movement around him is ****.
Pretty much, covering summer/this season for club and country he has 21 starts and 17 goals. He's in form, but as you say it's hard to look brilliant when you're reliant on a terrible midfield for service.
Messi, Ronaldo, RVP, Suarez miss sitters in just about every game, if they win and score, the misses are ignored, if the team loses a few games the misses are highlighted. That isn't wrong in and of itself, if someone misses a sitter that would win a game, sure, point it out, but it's pretending it doesn't happen in all games where it becomes irritating as hell.
All strikers miss buttloads of chances, more chances when the team plays better, they'll score. Then when a team is in a run of poor form and is creating a striker say 2 chances on average a game instead of 5-10, that is when strikers tend to start playing under pressure, trying to force a shot rather than take it naturally.
It's when people act like striker X scores a goal a game for 10 games, they win the 10 games, he's a god, he's never missed in his life, when he scores 1 every 3 games and they lose a bunch, he's crap and out of form, people talk about misses like they didn't happen before. Absolutely does my head in as it's such a painful pile of dross.
Suarez vs Norwich 4 goals, 9 shots. vs West Ham 2 goals 9 shots, vs Spurs 2 goals, 7 shots, vs Cardiff 2 goals 9 shots, vs City 0 goals 5 shots, vs Chelsea 0 goals 2 shots, vs Hull 1 goal, 4 shots, vs Stoke 2 goals 4 shots, vs Villa 0 goals 4 shots....... etc.
In general team does better, striker has more chances, striker scores more.
Sometimes a striker has 7 shots and scores 4, sometimes a striker has 9 shots and scores 2. I missed out Fulham, 10 shots and only 2 goals. West brom 3 goals 8 shots, Utd in the cup 8 shots 0 goals.
Top strikers always miss LOADS of chances. There will be games in which they shoot AND score loads, games in which they shoot loads and don't score, and games in which they barely shoot but score with every shot.
