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Boss pinpoints Rovers problem
Blackburn Rovers, 18:36, January 31, 2010 ,
Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce believes the lack of a genuine finisher is holding his team back in the Premier League.
Rovers were held to their seventh draw by West Ham on Saturday which left Allardyce again bemoaning their inability to capitalised on the few chances they created.
Allardyce's men average just over one goal a game in league action so far and unless he can find a natural goalscorer from somewhere, the Ewood Park chief can see only one way around the problem.
He said: "You have to accept you have to make more chances to score goals than the big boys because you haven't got as clinical finishers as them," said Allardyce.
"We haven't got the Rooneys or the Berbatovs or the Tevezs to score the amount of goals they score.
"When they get two chances, they score once whereas our players maybe need three or four chances to score a goal because we are at the lower end of the market in terms of the players that you buy and nurse them through to get the best out of them.
"But next time round hopefully they will score and we will win the game.
"That is why you end up finishing in a mid-table position rather than a higher position and if you don't score enough of the chances you get you end up in the bottom half."