The Leeds United striker doesn’t have a history of firing on all cylinders at this stage of the season.
Patrick Bamford had a day to forget for Leeds United last time out.
The 25-year-old striker missed a penalty and some good goalscoring chances in Leeds’ 3-2 win over Millwall on Saturday.
Bamford is now three games without a goal, but will he improve between now and the end of the season? Well, history indicates no.
The Whites, who sit second in the Championship, have seven left in which to win promotion to the Premier League.
In Middlesbrough’s final seven games of last season, Bamford scored once. The season before that, he was an unused substitute in three of Boro’s last seven fixtures, scoring once.
He didn’t score any Premier League goals during his last seven games for Norwich City during the 2015-16 season, though only three of those matches were from April onward.
In the 2014-15 campaign, he netted twice in Boro’s final seven fixtures. Toward the end of 2013-14, he scored once for Derby County’s run-in.
The good news is that Leeds might have top goalscorer Kemar Roofe back for Saturday’s trip to Birmingham City [The Yorkshire Evening Post], but Marcelo Bielsa will still need all the goals from Bamford that he can get, though history suggests that he won’t get much out of the £7 million [The Daily Mail] marksman from here on in.
It might be on Roofe and Pablo Hernandez – who scored twice in the win over Millwall – to get Bielsa’s side over the line.
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