Kuyt confident goals are going to come
Dirk Kuyt. Picture: PA
LIVERPOOL forward Dirk Kuyt remains philosophical about his own barren spell as goals remain hard to come by for the rest of the team.
The Reds have scored just 18 times in 15 Premier League matches with leading scorer Luis Suarez ending more than two months without a league goal with the winner against QPR at the weekend.
Kuyt, who was Liverpool's top scorer last season with 15, has one Carling Cup goal to his name this campaign but has not found the net in the league since May. He insists the lack of goals for him and the rest of the team is not a worry as generally their overall form has been good, which is reflected in statistics which show they have hit the post or crossbar 14 times this season.
"I haven't scored for a while but we all feel like we are close to it and we have the confidence to keep going and soon we will score more of our chances," said the Netherlands international. "The last six months of last season we were all scoring goals.
"Sometimes in football it is like this, you have to keep working hard and it will come. Last season I was scoring five or six games in a row and everything I touched was going in.
Unlucky
"Now sometimes you are a little bit unlucky to be just in the wrong position or you just miss a chance.
"I will work hard and wait until the time comes. I am sure with the way this team plays everyone up front will score loads of goals. Every player in the squad has shown they can score goals -- Stewart Downing, Craig Bellamy, Andy Carroll, Luis, myself and Maxi Rodriguez."
Kuyt said the confidence within the squad was reflected by their reaction to the 1-0 win at home to QPR, which ended a run of four successive home draws. "It was not a relief, just disappointment that we only scored once because we created enough chances in the first 30 minutes to be two or three up," he added. "If you win a game and can be disappointed you didn't score enough goals that is the spirit you need."
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