One goal in eight months of training and two winners at Swansea City.
That is the unlikely goalscoring record of Millwall’s Casper de Norre, Neil Harris revealed, after the Belgian’s late strike saw the Lions claim the archetypal smash-and-grab victory at the Swansea.com Stadium on Saturday.
A Swansea side who cannot find a finish for love nor money right now were beaten by a player who very rarely finds a finish.
No wonder Luke Williams felt “fed up”.
You have to feel a little for Williams, whose team did everything but score against Millwall but received no sympathy from those home fans who booed them off at full time.
Swansea have not scored in five Championship games, their longest run without a league goal since a stretch of six matches in 1996.
Williams’ side are having enough control – and creating enough opportunities – to win matches.
But for the moment, deficiencies in the final third are costing them dear.
Should we be surprised? Perhaps not, given the glaring lack of firepower in Swansea’s squad.
There are some players with potential, who may – though it is by no means guaranteed – develop into regular goalscorers given time.
But the fact is that there is nobody on Swansea’s books who has a track record of scoring heavily in the English second tier.
So it seems a little harsh to blame Williams – as some on social media are doing – for Swansea’s considerable issues in attack.
Fourteen years ago, Brendan Rodgers’ Swansea reign began with a 2-0 defeat at Hull City, where the visitors dominated but could not take their chances.
Afterwards, a frustrated Rodgers memorably declared that he was “not a magician” and therefore could not conjure goalscorers out of thin air.
A couple of days after the Hull reverse, Swansea paid what was a significant fee by their standards at the time to sign Scott Sinclair.
Almost 10 months and 27 Sinclair goals later, they became the first Welsh club to be promoted to the Premier League.
This is not to suggest that the addition of a goalscorer to Williams’ squad would mean a return to the top flight, but it would certainly help the cause.