Ten Keys To The Season – No. 2: Center Forwards

Let's let that sink in for a minute. Omar Cummings played probably 1000 minutes as a target forward in 2012. That's not good. That's the exact opposite of good. That's horrendous.

If that sounds like a bit of a shaky premise, it's because it probably is. In total, the guys who were playing center forward last year picked up something on the order of eight goals total, taking into account that most of the times that Cummings scored, he had been moved to the outside. Goals don't necessarily need to flow from the center forward in a 4-3-3 with so much speed and technical ability on the outside strikers, but they're gonna need to do better than just under one goal every four games.