Swansea City coach wants goalscoring pressure eased on Andre Ayew, Gomis

Published on: 25 September 2015
Swansea City coach wants goalscoring pressure eased on Andre Ayew, Gomis
ANdre Ayew celebrating one of his goals this season

Swansea City coach Garry Monk wants players of the club to chip by by scoring to ease the pressure on striking duo of Andre Ayew and Bafetimbi Gomis.

Gomis leads the Swansea City scoring charts with four goals and Andre Ayew comes next with three and the two players have accounted for all the seven goals scored by the Swans in the Premier League so far this season.

Nathan Dyer, Marvin Emnes and Matt Grimes are the only other players who have netted for Swansea this season.

Dyer is now a Leicester City player, and the other two are unlikely even to make the bench at Southampton this weekend.

Gomis and Ayew are big threats and, assuming they stay fit, they are good bets to be the top two in the race to be Swansea’s leading marksman come the end of the season.

But after three successive games in which Monk’s men have not found the target, the spotlight is falling elsewhere.

Gomis and Ayew cannot be expected to deliver every week.

When they do not, it is up to others to come to the party.

And Monk is convinced they will.

“Look at the other players — they’ve already had chances,” says the Swansea manager.

“Gylfi (Sigurdsson) has been unlucky not to have three or four, Jonjo (Shelvey) could have scored and Jeff (Montero) hit the post against Newcastle, but it’s panned how it has.

“I understand why the question is being asked because the fact is only Bafe and Andre have scored, but there are guys who could have easily had goals.

“The bottom line is, of course, I would love all the team to be scoring, but as long as someone is and we are in positions to win games, that’s the most important thing.

“Bafe and Andre are not going to score every week and somebody else will have to join in, but it will happen — that’s football.”

Gomis ended last season as Swansea’s top scorer with ten goals, while Sigurdsson chipped in with nine and Ki Sung-Yueng eight.

Wilfried Bony also netted nine Swansea goals before leaving for Manchester City in January.

Dyer got five last term, with Wayne Routledge (four) and Shelvey (three) next in the list.

With eight games played already in 2015-16, it is about time one of that lot got off the mark.

But Monk is not worried that it is only his two former Ligue 1 forwards who have found the target thus far.

“There’s no real concern for me,” he adds.

“The way we’ve been playing and trying to play is the right way.

“Everyone is contributing and I could easily have been talking about five or six different scorers already.

“I think you will see other scorers through the season, definitely.

“There’s plenty who have got goals in them. We’ve had set-pieces that should have gone in, and there’s been some good defending and bad luck along the way.

“Gylfi could have had a few, Wayne should have had a few and there are others.

“You can talk about what ifs and they have been good chances.

“But the bottom line is we’re doing all right and I’m sure you’ll see more and more scorers through the season.”

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