Who is the best Newcastle United striker? The answer may surprise you.
Posted on February 23rd, 2020 | 3 Comments |
When I say ‘top level’, this means I have only included performances in the top European leagues, ie the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1, as well as cup competitions, the Champions League, Europa League / UEFA Cup and national cup competitions in the five top leagues mentioned above. Results from leagues such the the English Championship, minor European Leagues and others such as the Japanese ‘J-League’ have not been included, and neither have international games. Finally, using figures from Transfermarkt I am not just using goals per appearences but average minutes per goal scored as this is a far more accurate way of judging. The players I have included are Joelinton, Andy Carroll, Dwight Gayle and Yoshinori Muto.
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Getting back to our comparison, you may be surprised at some of the results in the table below.
| Name | Apps | Goals | Assts | MP | MpG | MpA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joelinton | 76 | 16 | 13 | 5746 | 359 | 442 |
| Andy Carroll | 266 | 61 | 36 | 15,852 | 260 | 440 |
| Dwight Gayle | 124 | 31 | 10 | 5985 | 193 | 598 |
| Yoshinori Muto | 99 | 25 | 11 | 5691 | 228 | 517 |
| MP = Matches Played, MpG = Minutes per Goal, MpA = Minutes per Assist. | ||||||
One salient point from this table is the minutes per goal scored figure by Dwight Gayle. Whilst his goals per appearence figures are unremarkable, his minutes per goal figure puts him alongside some of the best scorers in the game; however, even before Newcastle when he played with Crystal Palace in the Premier League, he never had many starts, like Ole Gunnar Solkjaer at Man Utd, at the highest level he has been typecast as the ‘super sub’ who will come on after 70 or 80 minutes in an attempt to change a game. As for Newcastle United there is also another thing which has held him back; to dip into football cliches for a while, both Gayle and Muto are more ‘off the shoulder’ type players and the Toon’s focus up front has been on big target men like Andy Carroll and Salomon Rondon for the number 9 position. This season, the man who has been too expensive to drop, Joelinton has fulfilled that role, though he isn’t really as much of a target man as Carroll or Rondon. Yoshinori Muto’s figure of 229 is also respectable with Carroll at 260 and Joelinton trailing with 359, though the tables are turned when it comes to assists with Carroll and Joelinton leading the way with 440 and 442 respectively over Muto and Gayle’s figures of 517 and 598.
It has been suggested by the Chronicle’s John ‘Gibbo’ Gibson that Joelinton has been played out of position, but he did come to the club from Hoffenheim as a centre forward, which is where he has played the large majority of his games throughout his career.
Conclusion
More generally, it’s all very well moaning about occaisional total capitulations like the game at Arsenal or the 5-0 defeat at Leicester earlier in the season, but it’s the Magpies’ inabilty to score which is always the real problem, not just this season but since promotion and the statistics show this is mostly due to our misfiring forwards with their solitary goal in League competition. The side has been solid overall at the back and find themselves in a lower mid table position, but without goals, the side will always struggle and be in danger of sucked into a relegation battle.
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Statistics and all, eh !
Listen there is no-one I know on this side who comes close to being a striker, other than Gale , who only scores against Championship clubs .
I’m not aware of who our recent scouting group are, however I know that Carr bought some pretty decent players in, the likes of Debuchy,
Cabay (better than John Jo) Tiote (who put people into the stands with his defensive play) Sissoko, who ran the entire ninety minutes Wynaldum (enough said, a regular Liverpool fixture)
All of them decent but sold on among others for “profit” Ashleys favorite word.
To- days side is without fear of contradiction a group of ten defenders without anyone who knows how to put it in the net.
To watch this side playing is not exactly a pleasure so why not give the games a miss, Ashley has already shown his fear of a boycott, offering free tickets for home games, he has to GO !
The ugly football is simply awful to watch and Bruce (a decent guy, but
when compared to Benitetz , sorry ! not a EPL manager )
Soh a new owner, manager and a shit load of players is needed and
soon , before we become adjusted to playing in the lower leagues.