Clarke is an opportunist striker. When he's required to go and fetch (as was from the by-line yesterday on one or two occasions) that takes so much pressure off the central pairing. He's easy to marshal out wide, because he has no real pace to get round the wide back and in on goal. Play the ball into his feet with his back to goal, set him on with a half a yard of space and opportunity or give him the chances Goldy and Lumpstom had and he'll stick it in the net, or make the keeper save it. Sharp is simply a percentage striker, who will gamble and if given the chance, will usually (ahem … Brentford) finish.
We just need connective tissue to link the midfield and wings with them two. Yesterday showed also we don't (and have rarely) played 'two up front' very well. Drop one off the frontman to feed off the second ball or use one as a decoy to take defenders and you have a better formula. Neither Goldy nor Clarke were doing that yesterday and they both were struggling to understand where each other were, positionally.
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