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  • "The football we are playing is the best outside the premiership by any club, as Gus stated, we should have a forward with 15 goals this season,
    On the matter of Barnes, I give him a massive credit for taking pens, some of you think it's down to the manager who takes them? Clearly cms does not want to, do we know if we have someone other than Barnes who actually WANTS to take them.?
    Two players short of winning the league."
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Poyet rues goals that got away

6:55pm Saturday 24th November 2012 in Sport By Brian Owen

Andrea Orlandi is upended Andrea Orlandi is upended

Gus Poyet admits Albion should be scoring a lot more goals.

The Seagulls blew a host of chances in their 1-1 draw at home to Bolton.

Proud Poyet felt his team were “fantastic” and said: “It’s not only the domination.

“It is the way we played, the way we stopped them playing, the quantity of chances.

“The penalty goes down as a triple chance.

“Hitting the post, the goalkeeper making saves. There is nobody to blame.

“Of course you get disappointed with plenty of things that can go another way but that is football and you need to accept it.”

Poyet felt the share of the spoils was unfair on his side.

He added: “It is unfair on everybody but the one who gets it worst is me.

“I pick the players, I pick the way we play, I convince them it is possible.

“It has been proven we are better than most.

“But there is a part I cannot do. I cannot take penalties, I cannot head the ball inside the six-yard box and I cannot tap in from three yards. That is individuals.

“It is a difficult part of the game. That is why top scorers are so expensive.

“At the moment we should have the top scorer in the division by far with more goals than Glenn Murray and Charlie Austin but we don’t.

“The rest is all there.”

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