You must be barking bad, he gets his first shot on target all season and he has become a major threat! Watch all this seasons games, add that to the stats of no goals and hardly an assist, then look at the league table and prepare yourself for more of yesterday.
The same goes for another midfielder, it's not unfair to ask for some form of achievement statistically, as you can't expect to stay up otherwise.
It is basically a credit to the general organisation of whoever has played in the back four that has kept us out of the bottom 3.
With the remaining fixtures, it is going to take more than that to stay up.
What Yala did yesterday has got to be the least you would expect from every midfielder at this level.
We keep saying all season that we are a little short of quality and clinicality but now the time has come where we must find it.
I know you might believe he can get two goals against Chelsea but with his stats over 20 games, where do you really think that is going to come from?

No goals from Jedi either. Has KG scored this season? No set piece goals from DD or Dann yet. No full back goals.

"The course of true love never did run smooth"

He's getting better but a long way from the finished article.

He has to learn when to take on players and when to offload. He reminds me of Routledge who is only now fulfilling his potential.

Bolasie clearly has great tekkers, but is a work in progress still.

who has scored our goals? Not Bollasie that's for sure and to think he may score 2 against Chelsea. Blimey!

The point I was making is that he seems to be finding his feet in the Premiership, and he is certainly playing better now than early season....he can't sustain the effort for 90mins at the moment, and frankly I would take 65mins of him being dangerous to the other side than 90mins of just effort.

My point about his shooting yesterday was that it had much more control about it...we know when he connects properly he has a good shot on him, but often has lacked composure and also too often shot across the line of direction...maybe he has started to achieve a level of composure.

He must surely score sometime and he can certainly get past players (even some of the best) and yes it was slightly tongue in cheek/hope about him scoring a brace against Chelsea....but someone has to, otherwise we are in for another brave defeat.

I think Southampton prove the point.
I don't think they are overall a wonderful team and they certainly were not miles better than us in our latest encounter.
But all season when their Midfielders/Strikers get half a sniff of goal they take it.
Jay Rodriguez took his chance early on today at White Hart Lane but we all know if that had been KG, Yala or Jerome that is never ending up in the back of the net
They have let a 2 goal lead slip today whereas our defence are not likely to do that so it is frustrating that we have not (Murray excluded) found that type of player in the last two seasons.
Even though Ince has not played particularly well since his debut what he did prove is that if he gets that chance on goal he can put it away.
I think the only way to avoid brave defeats when Chamakh returns is to also play someone like Ince who is capable of hitting the back of the net.
We could steal a few draws between now and May 11 with KG, etc but it won't be enough as too many of the bottom teams play each other which means some form of guaranteed points for some of them.
I think its fair to say Villa is a must win and that we probably now need to win 2 from 3 of W Ham, Cardiff or Fulham.
Considering we have only two 1-0 away wins on our CV this season, its a big ask!
You have to play your majority goalscorer's so a fit again Chamakh and Puncheon must be definites.
My gut feeling if you need to get 3 wins is that you also have to play someone in front of Chamakh, which leaves you a whole host of midfield/wingers, to decide on which ones will be your impact players and find the back of the net for you.