Goal drought of Nigerian striker, Odion Ighalo is a source of worry for Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores ahead of their Premier League clash with West Brom.
Ighalo has scored 14 league goals this season while his strike partner Troy Deeney has scored nine.
These goals have helped solidified Watford’s league status this season in 15th position in the table.
“It is clear. The second half of the season we have problems to score – I try to support the strikers because Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo are amazing players and have a lot of responsibility,” the coach said.
“In terms of the goals, I would be worried if we didn’t create attempts. You do not score, it is a problem but it is more difficult to create attempts than to score.”
With 38 points so far, Watford are just two points away from 40 which usually guarantee Premier League safety.
Flores however maintains that the club still need to do more to remain in the Premier League.
“We try to be ambitious and add more points, the necessary points – this is the challenge,” he added.
“If you say we need two points from 18 it is not a good mentality, we want 18 points. We want to go to every single stadium to play well and be competitive and get a good result.
“We have one style of play which depends on our strikers, we can’t depend on one striker. We try things but we are not this kind of team, we are building and it is the first year in the Premier League.
“We don’t have a lot of tools and lots of different responses when we have problems. It is something that is not easy to solve.”
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