It is clear to see that Cardiff City are lacking firepower without a goal-scorer this season. Adding a striker is essential to Paul Trollope\u2019s cause.<\/p>\n
The opening EFL<\/strong> game for Cardiff City finished 0-0 away to Birmingham City;<\/strong>\u00a0a result many could have predicted. Two evenly matched teams, both well organised yet lacking that magic touch upfront. New signing Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gounongbe<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0missed an open goal from two yards out in the game at St. Andrews<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Trollope\u2019s attacking line-up is limited and make-shift. Kenneth Zohore<\/strong> and Anthony Pilkington\u2014<\/strong>known as a winger\u2014make up the trio of strikers along with Gounongbe. Lex Immers<\/strong> can also play as a forward, but his favoured position is behind the striker. With Zohore and Gounongbe as the first pick strikers, it only confirms the lack of goal-poaching on offer.<\/p>\n Gounongbe is known for his aerial ability so would suit a target man role. Assisting a poacher would only enhance his credibility. Zohore did poach a few goals towards the end of last season, having finally been utilised by then-manager\u00a0Russell Slade<\/strong>.<\/p>\n You can find the rest of this article at our previous site\u00a0Last word on sports<\/a>. Keep it locked here on\u00a0Last Word on Football<\/a>\u00a0for all the latest analysis, news, opinion and more about the beatiful game as we expand and bring you a dedicated, football only site. It is all the best of what you expect from last word, and more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is clear to see that Cardiff City are lacking firepower without a goal-scorer this season. Adding a striker is essential to Paul Trollope\u2019s cause. Cardiff City lack firepower The opening EFL game for Cardiff City finished 0-0 away to Birmingham City;\u00a0a result many could have predicted. Two evenly matched teams, both well organised yet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32],"tags":[38,168],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-championship","category-league-football","tag-cardiff-city","tag-efl"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Target Man<\/strong><\/h3>\n