Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest | England)

5 goals in 3 games.  Great record that.  Could have been even more had he travelled with the AWs to the Solomons.  

Given his clear love and determination to play for the AWs is it time he was made permanent captain?

Think this guy will score goals where ever he goes and agree he should be the permanent captain. He wants to turn up, appears passionate about his country, seems to not be injury prone, leads by example and good with the media.

Where is that Leeds fan... I want to hear from him : )

Lol, you should have asked for more!

It really was a great finish. I also like the way he anticipated what was about to happen. He came back from an offside position, saw the Palace player was going to pass the ball backwards, and started his run across into the gap before it was even played. Great awareness and anticipation, and indeed, a very tidy finish. A bloody good goal.

He has made a great start for sure but he needs to keep it going before he can be considered an established Premiership striker. His target for the season should be to reach double figures for league goals, if he can manage that then he will have had a very successful season.

Yep. Done very well with 2 goals in 2 games, both decent finishes as well. Didn't see it coming at all, fair play to him.

Agree that his target should be double figures. Even 8 or 9 would be reasonable for a team like Burnley. Still work to be done to be considered proven yet.

After watching Burnley v Palace - they play very direct, not much subtlety in their game. Probably suits Wood, but also means that he won't get many chances.

Thought Palace were by far the better side.

I think that game was a bit of an anomoly... even the coach said it was their worst game under him, ever!

Still, it's scoring what chances you get, Wood got one chance from memory and drove it in. That's what wins bad games.

I think he has done very well so far, but after another 34 games in the EPL will be the time to make an accurate judgement.

I've seen a couple of Burnleys games this season and that was a hard watch. Their wing backs are good crowds of the ball and their centre mid is ok but not much else in midfield really so they'll go long or wide rather than play though teams. Not too dissimilar from Leeds last season

Didn't see the game, but from brief highlights seems he had few if any chances. Burnley obviously mostly defending at Anfield. Drew 2 defenders with goal assist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZopxSk8flA

Wood comes on as a sub v Leeds United in the League Cup and grabs an 89th minute equaliser from the penalty spot.

Wow - he really can do no wrong at the moment! Hope this very rich vein of form continues on until the Intercontinental play-off! We need all the help we can get and having an in-form striker can only be a good thing!!!

scores another penalty in the shoot out as well

Any online highlights of this game?

http://www.espnfc.com.au/report?gameId=495217

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Calm head - well done

Is it just me or does this clip have commentary of the leicester game over the top?

Not just you lmao, something's up.

Pretty stoked to see him reserve his celebrations too, not like Lukaku who ran to and cupped his ear at the Everton fans.

Our Woodsey is a bit more classy then that bloke

So Everton fans boo Lukaku all game and you're pissed off that he put his hand to his ear? Good lord.

So was Wood, no reaction from him. Pretty classy

Lukaku was far more entertaining, gets my vote.

is it time to bring him into my fantasy team???

Another EPL start. At home v Huddersfield 

Was pretty poor vs Huddersfield - completely fluffed his header from a perfect cross.

Could have done better yes. Again seems to have few other chances from below highlights.

https://highlightsfootball.com/video/burnley-vs-huddersfield-town-highlights-full-match/

Disagree he was poor. Offensive headers don't appear to be his strong point, but he performed well given the limitations of Burnley's squad. All strikers miss chances. His touch as a targetman was pretty good considering there were basically no other threats from Burnley so both the centre backs could just stick to Wood like glue. He managed to bring midfielders into the game relatively often, which was impressive considering the vast majority of long balls he recieved while completely isolated. I've watched every minute he's played for Burnley and he doesn't look out of place at all in the EPL, his movement and general play is clearly better than Barnes and I believe he'd be banging them in even more regularly if he recieved the sort of service Depoitre was getting from Mooy's play last night. Burnley need to figure out how to get more from their creative players as so far Wood has had three clear cut chances and dispatched two of them, but the amount of chances they have created for Wood in over 200 minutes of football would be frustrating for any striker.

Don't necessarily disagree - but as a lone striker in a team like Burnley, you are never going to get many chances.playing in the EPL. You need to at least get those headers on target - it was a really poor effort.

Yeah it was a terrible header, I'll agree with that.

So he made one clear mistake.

He was always going to do that. Reid's made plenty, but he attracts much less angst than Chris. 

He's been responsible for some good results so far. I do agree with Leggy that we'll see by the end of the year what his quality is, but also that he will look worse at times than strikers at bigger clubs because of the number of chances created. Kane has duffed his share at Tottenham. 

Wood in the Burnley lineup away at Goodison Park.

No goal today, but a solid game against an Everton team with some good players. Helped to finished a move of 23 consecutive passes for the Burnley goal. Second highest passes to goal so far in the EPL.

Was singled out for praise by the commentators towards the end of the first half (in which Burnley were dominant): "(Chris Wood) his movement and touch has been exceptional, for a big man. Doing a great job bringing the midfielders into play..."