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[SuperDunk]

that's true. STs don't score.

They do if you play 4-4-2 or a 4-5-1.

[Tactician]

that's true. STs don't score.

They do if you play 4-4-2 or a 4-5-1.

For my case since 3 seasons, neither of the above.
The picture below shows the statistics of most of my players at the end of last season.



The ST at the top of that list has been the top scorer in my team for 3 seasons in a row playing alongside wingers most of the time, and also he has been among the top assisters in two of the three seasons. I bought him from the daily recommendations list. He came as a fast trainer and with penalty taker special ability. Even in associations, he scored a lot, on some occasions as much as 3-4 goals in the same match. But, this might be an exceptional case. Nik's comment is also based on facts of the past (but exaggerated with the 'STs don't score' as STs still scored but not to the level of expectations) and I myself went through periods where STs were not scoring enough goals (not as expected) way back, and SuperDunk also is not wrong as such as the formation used also is a factor (but for the case in this thread, which is 4-1-2-1-2, STs should be scoring lots of goals else something is wrong which could be the players themselves, the team, tactics and so on).

People also need to take things with a grain of salt and also consider the possibility of biased statistics and biased views or comments. For example, if someone played with a 5-star or 6-star ST and a near 7-star AML and AMR, and on top set the AML and AMR to take free-kicks, penalties, but then later show and say STs do not score goals, do nothing, are comestic and so on, is more like misleading.

I think that in many cases, it might be about the players themselves (hidden factors) and what the system has chosen to be the key player(s) in the team and also the quality of the players, which happens that in many teams the wingers are of higher quality but also got picked as the key players. But then, if having significant higher quality, it is evident that the wingers will score more than the ST, especially if they are set to take free-kicks and penalties.