Why are Premier League Strikers Terrible Now?
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- Back in the day it was Torres, Aguero, van Persie, Drogba and Henry. Now it's Werner, Jesus, Darwin Nunez and Nico Jackson... so what happened? Why are top Premier League clubs devoid of top strikers?? Where did they all go??
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recorded this video before Nicolas Jackson went on this recent run, thanks for making me look like a fool Nico x
Has he and I'm a Chelsea fan?
@@Baconman88yes he has you probably donât watch games or just not a real fan
@Zonnyzan In match of the day they said he's the only natural Striker at the club. I
@@Zonnyzan and believe me I'm a good chelsea fan
@Zonnyzan I have seen when Palmer drops into a false 9 and Jackson plays out wide but he really didn't stand out then.
The sheer madness that would be generated if Darwin Nunez and Timo Werner were in the same team would bring about a force of energy that could heal Nirans horrific knee injury..
LMAO
You forgot Nicholas Jackson
Even Timo is better than jackson.
Imagine a front three of Nunez, Werner and Lukaku
No window within a 15km radius would be safe
Lukaku was good at Everton,Man U he is a good striker overall Werner and Nunez its i hard to defend in terms of finishing
lukaku is the better, but that is a low bar
With good supply, it would work
ââ@@joshuafrimpong244behave. With your logic haaland is trash too cos his first touch. Lukaku has been a world class striker for 8 years? Consistently scoring 20+ league goals
@@hebisty4163 I meant between Werner, Nunez, and Lukaku, not haaland
Strikers generally have âfallen offâ the UCL final is Joselu vs Fullkrug
Donât underestimate these boys
Acting like FÞllkrug is bad and wasnt held back by injurys his entire carrer
@@heart_of_angel8238heâs not bad but heâs not world class is he? He knows where the back of the net is but he isnât a top 20 striker
@@countingcards1208 i doubt i could list 20 strikers better than him, 10 maybe, 20 no chance
I feel the game has changed and thatâs why we see âworseâ strikers now
I think if Niran played striker, he'd not have injured his knee, he would have been Dagenham and Redbridge's all time goal scorer
what could've been
Tbh he could probably be Dagenham and Redbridgeâs all time goal scorer with the knee injury
The problem is that, too many strikers are better suited to being wingers, Jesus, Jackson, Werner, Nunez all have traits of a winger, but for some reason they are strikers
Then we have Lukaku
I mean Jackson was a left winger until this season and Poch had been forced to make him a striker cause Nkunku was out
True, all of them are wingers
@@someone-ys4hhnkunku himself isnât a striker
ââ@@yongolejohn6486_ so true, it has nothing to do with winger - strikers ð.
It has to do with the English tax in transfer season, and the big club tax for English top 6 clubs. The tax is too high when it comes to number 9 s, so much, that English clubs prefer to buy wingers and turn them into strikers. And this experiment almost always collapses horribly.
It's too funny ð.
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it feels like there isn't a striker that leads the attack in the modern game, your attack is led by a "forward"
weird how this is only really an issue in the prem
Same with Real or PSG though
Do not forget we still have the goat chris wood best ST in prem history.
Still has 69 pl goalsð
4:33 the man in the mirror jokeððð
This video reminds me of that one fifa video where zlatan, ronaldo, Rooney etc beat a bunch of robots made to play football. I feel like we're going towards that robot era with all the stats and xg cravings instead of treating a game like a game. Elegancy over efficiency yk. I hope if we ever do so, someone invents a time machine and brings prime Ronaldo, zlatan etc to the future to kick them robot butts
The last game, risk everything. World cup 2014 commercial
This is ridiculous lolâĶ
Pep changed football in the Prem forever. From STs who are not clinical but can link up plays to GKs who are dead at shot stopping but can ping passes
Yep I'm excited when he leaves, it's boring as hell now
@@jasonmillsom2981 100% having STs who can't finish and keepers who can't save is frustrating as hell
I also believe that the quality of players have gone down bc of the coaches systems . Itâs all about formation and systems now and less about how good a player actually is . We no longer see the quality of strikers that there used to be in football . Even halaand is robotic to watch . Itâs just mostly tap ins , football used to have another tall guy like ibra who was dribbling past players and doing rainbow flicks to score a goal and he was a striker , Suarez could nutmeg a mermaid, the list goes on and on .systems and tactics now rule football and more talented players will be in the sidelines for players who can fit a certain role for a coaches system
@darwinsantos3446 even Neymar near the end of his PSG career was passing back instead of running at defenders.
Everything is becoming boring, black and white
PEP or MANCITY don't owe anybody " entertaining game " , if u watch it u watch it if not u can leave ðĪ·ââïļ .
Exciting football will come with costs look at spurs they got Exciting football but concede 1.2 goals every game defensive is horrible Midfield & attack no chemistry extremely high line etc it's just for entertainment not how u win sh*t
i don't think that nicolas jackson has actually been that bad tho, like as someone who actually watches him, hes quite good at many things, just occasionally struggles with his shooting
And its his first season
He's definitely better than Haaland on general play skills
Most underlying facts show heâs doing well but his finishing has been underperforming, if he develops that he could be all round excellent striker
Apparently Nico Jackson has been terrible in his first season but Hojlund has been doing alright. Itâs the Chelsea tax
Problem is man has an ego of theirry henry but the actual ability of berahino
I think the two things that have changed the most in the modern game is the quality of overall team management to shut down big strikers, as well as the quality out on the wings. I feel that more wingers than strikers are talked about nowadays, but Iâm not sure if thatâs the cause of strikers getting worse stats or an adaptation of it
I think its down more to the profile of the striker position changing over the years. The striker position is no longer a pure goalscorer, but they are now expected to be able to link play together. We're seeing more target players and great off the ball play. They're also being expected to press defensively more than ever. The striker position now is more akin to the CAM position of the past, or even a false 9 at times. Its not that strikers are getting worse, the role of the striker is changing.
That's true but players have lost some of that specialist ability we used to see from strikers, playmaker etc we used to see all the time.
The way things are were unlikely to ever see many classic no. 10 types again for example.
@lewismckenzie236 yeah it's kinda the same thing I was saying. A striker is no longer a pure goalscorer. The same way as the 8 is no longer the main playmaker. Positions are much more fluid and players have to be much more versatile now. IMHO it's not a bad thing, but something we need to get used to seeing. This is the next evolution of the game
The funny thing is, we've got 4 English strikers in the top 10 goalscorers list this season - Cole Palmer - 21, Ollie Watkins - 19, Dominic Solanke - 18, Jarrod Bowen - 16....yet none of them will start for England at the Euros this summer.
(To be fair though, Harry Kane has got 44 goals in 45 games this season. It's hardly gonna be a surprise that he'll start every game)
harry kane would start in any national team in history, he's that generational imo.
Those 4 won't likely start because of Gareth Southgate's rules! He really likes "outform" players like Maguire, Rashford, Phillips, and Henderson!
@@ezraezra2928 this comment didn't age very well
Palmer and Bowen aren't strikers
Managers like Pep dont want Strikers they want Midfielders disguised as Strikers, but instead they get Strikers pretending to be Midfielders. Whatever happened to the fox in the box target man that were absolutely killers pounced on chances and scored. Sure its not pretty but it was effective. Its like oh your a striker? Go play winger. Like what?
What are you talking about? Haaland is literally the definition of the pure goal scoring target man to a fault, and Pep made him the centerpiece of his system
@@1cjtate Wrong Pep never wanted him. It was Man City's desire. Pep's contract was expiring with no signs of renewal. Pep did want Kane because he was perfect for his system but without a renewal City was not sure and preferred Haaland. In the end Haaland was bought, Pep renewed for 1 more year and was forced to change his tactics and make Haaland the center piece of the system and the rest is history.
Nunez still having 20+ GA with all of this criticism is crazy
Football has changed, it makes you wonder whatâs the next change in tactics in the future. More wide players and fullbacks are technically gifted than ever.
How have you not hit 1 million subs another top quality videoð
In Yaya Toures 13/14 season he didnât miss a single big chance in the prem and scored 20
Haaland has missed 32 this season and scored 25
You put some respect on Bald Head Jackson
I think that peopleâs perception of what a good striker entails has been affected so much because of Messi and CR7. They have set the bar so high and have dominated at the top for so long and so consistently that it feels like a truly great, top 5 striker should be able to do the same. 20 goals in a season used to be massive for a player but now 20 goals is just okay or even considered underperforming.
I am a chelsea fan to be honest Jackson has improved his finishing fro the start of the season he is having a decent season but he still need to improve his finishing
Nah bro. He's horrendous. He's better off playing on the left, running with the ball, and causing chaos. The amount of chances bro misses are insane
@@predatorx8081just stfu heâs literally one of the best st in the league heâs not been bad let alone horrendous just watch games before u talk
He has 13 goals in his first season, thats decent
Chill out â@predatorx8081
It's not haaland has moreâ@@predatorx8081
Football doesn't have as many great players now as they did back then but the overall quality have improved.
depends on what angle your looking at it from. personally think the quality of strikers in the premier league has improved massively over the past 5 or so years, however that coincides with the fact that defending in this league has gotten a lot worse
13:40 put some respec on Lord Bendtner's name ðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢ
Niran would have been a great striker in the PL if it wasn't for that cataclysmic shambolic knee injury he had ðâĪ
You know itâs mad when The Box is on par with prem strikers these days ð
You make a good point on nostalgia. I think overall systems these days donât really need to play strikers. I mean you can look at the arse. They play saka on the right and martinelli or whoever on the left but havertz through the middle. A man whoâs best position is a CAM. They line up with strikers but donât actually play them at striker they play more of a cam really. They drop deep pick the ball up and play it. Havertz does it really well I got to say. Traditional out and out strikers arenât needed anymore. Aguero was a perfect example of one as much as it pisses me off to say. You could see his thinking of where to be to maximise his goal scoring. Stats have ruined the game not just on a level of enjoyment but also psychologically for the players. Imagine being Darwin Nunez and seeing how poorly youâve played consistently. Unless youâve got thick enough skin to take it and improve (btw players these days have notoriously thin skin) then your confidence is gonna be down the drain. Itâs hard to pinpoint exactly where this started and Iâm not gonna make a guess. But I do think Harry Kane is one of the first at least Iâve seen that drops deep like this. Overall I think itâs down to stats tbh. People compare players like Trent to Beckham based on stats. Not taking anything away from Trent heâs a phenomenal player but becks was just a better watch. People donât enjoy the game anymore they want to try and science it up thatâs where itâs gone wrong imo thatâs why the level of every position has dropped so dramatically
No good Premier League strikers in the current generation? *Ahem* Erling Haaland? Alexander Isak? Dominik Solanke?
watkins and jarrded Bowen too lol
solanke? man has only had one good season in the premier league, let's take it easy
@@requarnlawrence7403 bowen is better on the wing
Only three and one is a one season wonder.
@@jesterbeats2898 ðð―this is his best & most productive season ever,I very much disagree.
Gonna be honest i think the main reason the shift from an out and out 9 to a wide player cutting in/being played down the middle happened in the first place is purely because of Arjen Robben and how well he could just pick up the ball cut inside and smack a shot in with his left and how vulnerable pretty much every team was to him doing this. From their its just spiralled out of control and soon we will see the death of the striker position similar to how a few decades ago we saw the death of the libero/sweeper. The good news is that overtime the position will get reinvented and returned in a slightly altered state (similar to how the libero/sweeper became the CDM and more recently with the revival of a 3 man defence the position effectively returned in everything but name with the central ball playing defender who sits slightly ahead of the other 2 centre backs)
a common misconception is Drogba was clinical. he actually wasn't. he just turned up in the big games. frank lampard was the one more clinical than his striker. this is the reason they bought schevchenko, which turned out to be worse than drogba, at least drogba can score crucial goals. bergcamp wasn't either. henry carried arsenals' attack. someone clinical is van nistelrooy, much better than cole and yorke, ronaldo and rooney, the guy was a pure poacher like he just appears unmarked on the box out of nowhere. he's not better than rooney and ronaldo but he always scored.
I play football manager. Even when he was on Benfica back in 2022 his finishing was rated 10/20. lol. His bravery was like 18/20 though. Thatâs why we love to watch him play but hate to watch him shoot
They used to be âterribleâ (if you want to use that word). But there was no TH-cam or Twitter to make their open miss clips go viral.
Their âlowâ (by today's standards) career goal stats speak for themselves.
Bobby Firmino was Jesus + goals for Liverpool. Didnât get as many as ManÃĐ/Salah mind but the guy had a such great skill set for a #9
Wayne Gretzky famously said âyou miss 100% of the shots you donât takeâ but I think if he was talking about premier league strikers heâd have said âyou miss 100% of the shots you do takeâ
I think the use of inside forwards rather than traditional wingers is a big factor. For one, striker are taking comparably less shots and are expected to have a developed all around game including pressing in most modern systems. You have some teams where one of the wide forwards takes more shots per game than the 9 as well.
And I mean comparably less shots as a percentage of the teams total, not necessarily less than in the past because on a whole the average prem game involves way more goals these days than in the past.
Look back at the 2016-17 season and some forwards. Not all of them are pure 9's:
Here are the 9's
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) - 16 goals in 40 games (17 starts)
Diego Costa (Chelsea) - 22 goals in 41 games
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Man Utd) - 28 goals in 45 games
Sergio Aguero (Man City) - 33 goals in 45 games
Harry Kane (Spurs) - 35 goals in 38 games
Now forwards that aren't pure 9's
Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal) - 30 goals in 51 games
Theo Walcott (Arsenal) - 19 goals in 37 games (29 starts)
Son Heung-min (Spurs) - 21 goals in 48 games (34 starts)
Harry Kane (Spurs) - 35 goals in 38 games
Sadio Mane (Liverpool) - 13 goals in 29 games
It's crazy to see the contrast nowadays
Football used to have top of the line strikers.
Cantona,
Van Basten,
Romario,
Inzaghi,
R9,
CR7,
Rooney,
Ibrahimovic,
Aguero,
Raul,
Suarez and many many more.
I swear any of them could get into any team in any era and be one of the best players
I think the change from strikers who are only there to score to link up play and more strikers being able to play out wide has something to do with it
Thank you for not including Hojlund in the thumbnail, we have had too much suffering this season
Giroud, Lacazette were both horribly frustating. Walcott got 20 goals in a season before them. Lacazette was never elite for Arsenal and we had to buy Aubameyang soon after to save us, and Giroud couldnât finish and would go weeks without scoring
Saying Giroud couldnât finish is like saying a sandwich is made of sand. The man was clinical with the right service you guys just hype up Ozil to much and cant admit it even years after hes left your club, replace Ozil with Fabregas and you would not be slandering Giroudâs name.
@@chelseatillidie3450 Iâm not ozilâs biggest fan but itâs no shock that when Auba came in we suddenly saw goals. Giroud went months without scoring, and despite him being a good asset to any team, when has ever proven to be a goalscorer since? If Giroud was scoring at Chelsea or Milan then maybe you would actually make sense
@@FTT878 he did score at chelsea and Milan though and he scored at Montpellier and even pretty much s carried Montpellier to the title before he joined arsenal. If he scored everywhere but arsenal then arsenal was the problem not him simple as mate.
@@chelseatillidie3450 he never scored even 10 league goals in a league season with Chelsea, and never got 20 in all competitions. In 18/19, he played 27 games and scored 2 goals. The most he's ever scored in the Prem was 16, and that was with Arsenal twice. Milan he hasn't touched 15 goals in the league either. Unless you think those stats scream 'goalscorer', then you might be worse than a casual fan.
I don't think its a prem issue. There a genuine shortage of proper goalscorers. It doesn't help that modern strikers essentially have to be good midfielders too.
10 years ago people wouldn't have criticised halaand for playing the way he does, but now people do. Targets have changed and so have the players.
Its the same thing with wingers, it is so difficult to find good dribblers who are also good creators nowadays
Strikers have lost identity over-time especially with the game's focus shifting from individual play to tactical play. Most top club strikers nowadays play as a support to draw opposition players into them to create space, primarily on the wings.
The game this day is more focused on inside forwards that play on the wing so strikers arenât scoring much as nothing is getting created for them
As a Newcastle fan I'm absolutely buzzing having Alexander Isak
0 views in 12 seconds? Fallen off harder than prem strikers
Mad take but I think the same with goalkeepers. Yes Alisson and Ederson are solid but feel somewhat less than Van Der Sar, Cech, Lehman and Reina.
Dont agree on Alisson. Ederson yes is a medÃocre shotstoper
It because they have no support. Back then they played 442. They had another forward to help split the backs. Now the center forward is used to simply hold the ball, distract the center backs, and then pass it to the trailer midfielder, or winger who is the primary goal scorer. If someone played 2 center fowards today they would be unstoppable cause backs are lazy today and are small, and are more concerned with getting forward and being a part of the offense cause they had nothing to defend.
Center backs are lazy is a statement
@@kaustavchakraborty6811 ok?????? Your point???
tbf man united had like cavani, Ronaldo, Rashford, Martial & Greenwood at same time...
Beside ronaldo bone of those sint top
@@jayzretrogaminz17 what
@@rwalker0130 only ronaldo in that list is class
@@jayzretrogaminz17respect Cavani or are you too young?
â@@rowanhulst7474bro got gaming in his name what do you expect? On top of that he can't even spell.
This man is better than Nunez even with his knee injuryð ð
Most teams donât play with an old school number 9 any more. Haaland is an exception, but Man City sometimes use a false 9 too.
Football sure is weird nowadays. You got players who are average at the skill that should matter the most for their position (shot stopping for goalies, defending for defenders, and finishing for strikers), being considered as very good players, since they can âpass the ball nicely.â
Iâm old fashioned I only judge a keeper on how well he stops shots not how well he passes out from the back
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 same here. I donât care if you can accurately ping the ball 50 yards, if you are not good at your actual job description. I guess we are both old school then ð
Strikers aren't goalscorers anyore and wingers are. Also, we have a LOT more goals scored in recent seasons compared to 10+ year ago.
Weâre in our own banter era
While the quality of strikers is lower, i mostly blame the change in football philosophy. Since spain won trophies without a striker, the football world in general changed how they think about football and traditional GK and ST lost the most from it
Probably because the game is more skilled than it was before, meaning a winger is just as capable of scoring than the striker
The thing with the modern game is that tactics and managers have astronomically improved and so has the defenders tactical understanding and thats why we see strikers like haaland get stopped for the whole game it happened to the number 10 role and has now happened to strikers all around the world
Donât think the strikers are necessary that much worse now then before. I Think people think that purely because of nostalgia and use of social media now of days. I mean now everyone overreacts if their team ainât dominating the first minute of a match. Back then there was no social media, I can promise you there would be Twitter (X) discourse about Drogba goalscorings record constantly happening on social media if it was popular as it is today.
Apart from that ROBOT who have 42 gaol contributions so far, the rest of strikers havc been absolute shambolic ððĪĻ .
Mateta & Munioz being a top strikers in the prem this year is crazy
Dawin Nunez gonna have my boys trim pulling backð ð
Richarlison is kinda good now, and he didnât miss tap ins, he just didnât score
Richarlison has been class, heâs over performed his xG this season
The good strikers are just not on the top 6. The quality is higher than it seems as a result
Thumbnail isnt fair.
Haland could stand in with the "2000s-early 10s" generation on his current trajectory.
Cole Palmer, Alexander Isak and Ollie Watkins had good seasons too.
Here before the knee injury jokes
Imagine Heskey in the modern era scrutiny
0:46 but that was a Phil jones clipð ð ð
What's crazy is that 10 years ago Lukaku used to be one of the good strikers in the Premier League
Someone hasnât heard of Jean phillipe mateta
I'm still waiting on a miracle ti COOOOOOOOOOMEEEE
City had Aguero, Tevez, Dzeko, Balotelli was decent for us
13:40 Wenger completely threw me off ðĪĢðĪĢ
I think thatâs a little unfair to Werner. We actually didnât bring him in to score goals
The conclusion to this video was actually quite interesting. Good points made
I know it was back in the 90s but Robbie Fowler in his prime was unstoppable!
Christian Benteke ðĪðūðĨ the ultimate streets wont forget striker â―ïļ with that celebration I am sure we all remember ð
and then there's Rasmus Holjund, man united love charity work but wont feed their strikerððð
11:51 the disrespect to aguero is crazy
I would say someone like Darwin is more of a true winger
Strikers nowadays layoff and score less goals due to inverted wingers
The social media plays some role here, imagine if Lukaku played in early 2000s he would be considered in the same category with Henry, because there was no misscompliation of him on youtube back then, Henry himself played horribly in many finals, he is so similar to Gonzalo Higuain ð yet one is the legend, the other one is being trolled by everyone
Haaland is a beast he's a machine he's the premier leagues best only him and kane that are constantly that can keep it up every year
Jackson is the main source of my depression ð
Timo Werner used to do the same... God, I've been through alot ðð
Downfall of Striker is because probably some teams trying to experiment without a striker and try to have game plans that doesn't neeed striker
its not just a PL problem, outside of haaland and mbappe theres a genuine lack of consistent world class strikers under the age of 30
0:45 ðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢðĪĢ
I grew up watching Rooney at United who could literally do everything. Now I'm stuck with Wout Weghorst and while Rasmus isn't bad he ain't a Rooney or a Berbatov, or a RVP and is probably closer stylistically to that of Lakaka even though he seems to has half his bodyweight
Ollie watkins carries prem STs
You know you're missing someone, yeah?
@@nauqtyeah Isak is good aswell
Nah as a ST Isak clears
U guys r being to hard on Nicolas Jackson his first season and he was 16 goals so far and heâs only 22 heâll only become better
Rasmus HÃļjlund canât miss chances if he never gets any service to begin with
Its not just the strikers all area's on the pitch are worse, especially defenders, they have no physicality about them at all just pathetic, all though in fairness any slightest touch is a foul now and attackers have pretty much a no touch policy.
Please make a video on players being overplayed every season and getting little rest off-season
steve lacy the outro, I'm subscribing
11:50 AgÞero, Super Mario, Robinho and one or two world class players
Dzeko, Tevez
Lukaku has more prem goals than drogba respect him
Bro forgot about the exploits of Sterling and SanÃĐð
I'm surprised more premier league teams don't go strikerless to solve this issue!