Paint this picture in your mind.
A team sitting second in the league have a striker that has scored over twice as many goals as anyone else in the squad, and fans slate him on almost a weekly basis.
It doesn’t make much sense, does it? But that’s the reality at Leeds.
Patrick Bamford’s 12 goals this season makes him by far and away the Whites’ highest goal scorer, as he’s scored more than double the amount of Jack Harrison, Leeds’ second most-reliable hitman.
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Only six players have scored more Championship goals this term than Bamford, and he has a better minutes per goal ratio than one of those, so why is there this anti-Bamford agenda amongst the fanbase?
The reality is that the team are over-reliant on the forward to find the net, especially compared to last term.
Last year, Leeds had four players who hit double figures in terms of goals, and this season they’d be lucky to have two – nobody other than Bamford is on track to break that ten goal barrier, as the second-highest scorer in the squad has just five goals after 30 league games.
Rather than consistently berating Bamford, perhaps it’s time to point the finger at the likes of Pablo Hernandez and Mateusz Klich, two men who scored 22 goals between them last term – this season they have just seven, and we’re coming towards the business end of the campaign.
It’s not just those two either, Helder Costa is some way off matching his ten goal tally from the 2016/17 season with Wolves, finding the net just three times this term, and that’s simply not good enough.
Bamford has taken on the brunt of the scoring duties, and while he’s missed his fair share of chances, his teammates aren’t helping his cause, and they should face just as much blame.
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