I'm playing with Arsenal as well (442) and I didn't buy any new strikers, I sold Eduardo though. van Persie/Adebayor are in my starting XI and Vela/Bendtner are my backups (both turn to wonderkid in first season with decent training/rotation).
I sold Denilson and bought Veloso/Camacho as MCd, lost Mountinho to Man City but Fàbregas/Diaby are doing well, although Fàbregas just returned from a 4month injury so he only played 16 games till now (first season, mid April) so that's disappointing to say the least.
Anyway, general question:
How often do your strikers head/shoot on the goalie from inside/just outside the 6yard box? And how often do they hit the woodwork? These things are really frustrating me, should I buy **** strikers that seem to score if they get 1 chance like the AI strikers often do?
I just won my away game vs Sunderland (1-2)
Arsenal stats:
shots: 8
on target: 6
clear cut chances: 3
and yet Gallas scored the 1-1 from a corner and Drenthe after a great assist from van Persie.
I try to learn my strikers to "try to put the ball in the corner of the net" but they always refuse...
I get good chances but I've seen a lot of chances straight on the goalie or off the woodwork, it's very frustrating, in 08 I very rarely hit the woodwork, actually I can't remember that it would happen that often, most of them still went in.
Is this happening to you guys too? How to change these things around, I managed to get some strikers to learn to "blast the ball in the net" so I really hope they come around.