Do Celtic’s Attacking Stats Against Aberdeen Prove That We Need A New Striker?

After Saturday’s excellent away performance, where we scored only one goal, the debate turns again to why we don’t convert more chances. Aberdeen defended resolutely – even I have to admit that, having said that their tactics were a disgrace – but we still had over 30 shots, and 10 of them were on target. One goal is a poor return for that.

So what went wrong?

The question that automatically comes to mind is this; for all their quality, are our strikers really doing enough in some of these games? It leads to another question; should we be looking to add another forward in the January window?

Here’s what concerns me; neither Giakoumakis nor Kyogo was exactly brilliant in the Champions League.

Neither has scored against the Ibrox club, and they’ve both had ample opportunity to do so.

They are clearly both very good players … but do they have the composure for those sorts of games?

If the answer is no, we should be looking for someone who does.

We are linked with the boy from Korea and a couple of other forwards; it might well be that we are interested in these guys, and it might be that we’re casting the net even wider. Ange said the other day that he intends to keep Michael Nicholson and others at the club busy over the next few weeks; he is not resting on his laurels in the least way.

I have little doubt that Ange has looked at the stats and is slightly concerned by them, and although I was very confident that we had enough about us to win that game at the weekend right up to the moment that we did, you do feel that we need something extra, a cutting edge even sharper than that which we already possess.

You can never have too many good players. The trick now is to find even better players. The manager has to be thinking along those lines. It makes the next few weeks highly interesting.

Even if there was not talk about Giakoumakis, we’d still be discussing this.