Caolan Lavery: Walsall forwards not short on confidence
Caolan Lavery insists the Walsall forwards are not lacking confidence as they bid to find their feet again in front of goal.
In attacking areas the club's start to life with Brian Dutton as manager has been a struggle, with the team only finding five goals in his opening 10 games as boss.
Lavery netted in Dutton's first two games, while Emmanuel Osadebe scored a penalty against Crawley last week.
Other than that, no other forward-thinking player has come close to getting on the scoresheet but Lavery insists the strikers are still confident they will hit a purple patch.
"I don't think confidence is an issue," Lavery said.
"If we could have it our way we'd have five or six chances ever game and we'd back ourselves to score two or three of them.
"It's about getting the chances and putting them away, which is the hardest thing to do in football.
"I'm not saying there's a confidence issue, we want chances to score.
"The sooner myself, Flash (Gordon) or anyone scores again it will give that individual even more confidence."
Although the goalscoring record has been poor, in many of those games the strikers have been starved of service.
Now, Lavery believes it's about creating those opportunities more regularly.
"Every game I play I put myself under pressure to score goals," he added.
"I've said before that I want to be the main man and score the goals, but as a group we need to start creating more chances that we can hopefully score from.
"That's not being disrespectful or negative to anyone, that's myself included, my final pass needs to be better at times.
"As a whole group we've obviously improved the football and it's nicer on the eye but now we need some end product and some chances for us boys to score.
"I'm not saying the chances are not there, but we always want more chances as a group.
"I believe the style will allow us to do that. We work on things every day we can, work on patterns of play and attacking patterns.
"When we watch videos back we can see there are chances that the manager has worked on in the week and we're not executing as well as we should.
"I believe the style will lead to more chances."
