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Megson calls for more Bolton goals

Fri 08 Feb, 09:30 AM


Bolton boss Gary Megson wants his side to be more prolific in front of goal to make the most of their miserly approach at the other end.Megson's men have kept three successive clean sheets but tasted victory in just one of those games - a 2-0 success at relegation rivals Reading last weekend.

That helped lift Bolton four points clear off the drop zone but Megson is keen to boost a Premier League goals tally of just 26 all season to ease the passage to safety.

He said: "We have kept four clean sheets out of the last five.

We are disappointed it is not five because that's the idea but we are not setting out purely and simply trying to get clean sheets. We want to win games - 1-0, 2-0, anything nil.

"We are playing football to try and score goals, not just purely and simply to make sure we don't concede."

With Nicolas Anelka now at Chelsea, Bolton's leading scorer is five-goal midfielder Kevin Nolan.

But Megson is confident his squad, strengthened by the arrival of on-loan Southampton striker Grzegorz Rasiak and the availability of El Hadji Diouf following the African Nations Cup, is well enough equipped up front to get the goals flowing.

"He (Rasiak) has done well in training. He is an experienced lad. The only thing he hasn't got is a goal scoring record at Premiership level but he hasn't had much of a chance," added Megson.

"When he was at Tottenham they maybe played a little bit differently to ourselves. We try and get the ball in the box as often as we can and he is very good at that. He is good in both boxes and hopefully when he gets that chance he'll take it.

"The fact that Heidar (Helguson) is now fit, as is (Ricardo) Vaz Te, makes us better. Dioufy has come back so we have more options but we have still got to start scoring more goals.

"Last week was good, going away from home and scoring twice and not conceding and we even missed a penalty. But we can't sit back and rest on our laurels and think we have achieved anything yet. We have to keep pushing onwards and hopefully upwards."

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