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title: "Hodgson bemoans Palace’s lack of goals this season"
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# Hodgson bemoans Palace’s lack of goals this season

Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson has opened up regarding his side’s lack of goals in the Premier League this season.

Palace have [only scored 22 goals](https://www.premierleague.com/tables) in the top-flight, which is the lowest amount of any team in the league.

As quoted on [Football London](https://www.football.london/crystal-palace-fc/everton-vs-crystal-palace-news-17708748), Hodgson said in his pre-Everton press conference:

> It’s been a problem all season. We can’t deny the fact the number of goals scored is nowhere near what we’d like it to be.

> We want to score more goals, but I believe the three front players we’re playing in the games – Wilf Zaha, Christian Benteke or Cenk Tosun before he got injured and Jordan Ayew – are very good attacking players. I don’t think I need to be terribly concerned that if we are not scoring in the last couple of games, it will go on forever because there are goals in the team.

> I suppose it’s just a question of breaking that duck in the last two games.

### READ CRYSTAL PALACE VERDICT

We feel that players like Zaha really need to be scoring more.

The Ivory Coast international only has [three league goals in 24 appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/wilfried-zaha/leistungsdaten/spieler/145988) this season, which for us, is simply not good enough at this level.

Palace let Alexander Sorloth leave on a two-season loan deal and he has already [netted 21 times](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/alexander-sorloth/leistungsdaten/spieler/238407) in all competitions this campaign so to us, it’s looking more and more like a costly mistake not to include a recall clause in the deal.

Hodgson continues to keep faith in Benteke but the Belgian has no goals yet this season ([Transfermarkt](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/christian-benteke/leistungsdaten/spieler/50201)), which is why we hope that the [loan signing of Cenk Tosun](https://www.evertonfc.com/news/1565564/tosun-joins-crystal-palace-on-loan) can help the team’s attacking return until the end of the campaign.