James Chambers: We should all score goals

Heading into this afternoon's game at Coventry, Dean Smith's men have netted just 15 times in 18 league games and the club's strikers have frequently come under scrutiny.

But Chambers, who has flourished in a new position at the centre of defence this season, claims it is up to every player to chip in with goals and insists the burden cannot just be left to those up front.

"It is exactly that – you see a lot of defenders chip in with goals," he said, when asked if everyone had to take responsibility for the lack of goals.

"I have played at full-back for quite a lot in my career so I have been back on the halfway for corners.

"This year I have been pushed up so I've had a few chances. There was one particular one I remember away at Crawley and then away at Notts County as well.

"I'm hoping if the chances keep coming I will be able to convert one sooner or later.

"It is a team thing and the goals do need to be spread throughout the team. It is not fair for one group of players to take the flak for that."

Last Saturday's 1-0 win at Fleetwood was the first time this season the Saddlers have taken three points in the league without nine-goal top scorer Tom Bradshaw.

Romaine Sawyers scored his fourth of the season in that win but no other player has netted more than once this term.

Manager Dean Smith remains confident the goals will soon begin to flow, insisting he would be more concerned if the team were not creating chances.

"We know we have not scored enough goals but we have created an awful lot of chances and not taken them," he said.

"We do an awful lot of work with analysis and statistics and if you are not creating chances then you have a big problem.

"If you are creating them and not taking them it is something you can work on.

"We have certainly been working on it and if in the long run that does not work out you go and get people who do."

Bradshaw has missed the past three games with a hamstring injury.

Smith added: "It was an awkward one because it is one (physio) Jon Whitney has never treated before.

"It was in the belly of the hamstring rather than one of the sprinting muscles, where you normally see a hamstring.

"As well as treating it you have got to strengthen as well."