Boss Sam Allardyce will continue with the tactic of packing his midfield in the absence of a credible attacking threat. "Our strikers at the moment are not delivering goals," Allardyce said.
"None of our strikers have created too many goalscoring opportunities when they've played and taken them.
"We changed that, we delivered chances to score goals, we score them against Tottenham and we haven't scored as many since then.
"We've created some massive opportunities and outplayed a lot of teams since we've played without a striker, so when you play with a striker you're then lighter in midfield and against Chelsea they would be more dominant.
"The tactical side of it has worked very well, it's just the end product hasn't produced what we've all wanted."
Allardyce hopes the goalscoring burden will be shared.
"Every player's responsibility is to score this year as many goals as you scored last year and improve by one," Allardyce said.
"Last year's goals were enough to get us 10th. It's only doing what you did last year and we're not doing that.
"From a clean sheet point of view we're miles ahead of last year. We only got 11 in the entire season; we've already got six.
"We're way ahead and we should've bagged more victories on the back of that and be in a very comfortable position."
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