Walsall's Andy Taylor: We all have to chip in
Andy Taylor today claimed Walsall's goal-scoring burden should not rest only with the club's strikers.
The Saddlers have struggled for goals this season and had scored just 16 in 14 League One fixtures before today's trip to MK Dons.
It has prompted the forward line to come under increased scrutiny with sections of the club's support believing Dean Smith should sign a central striker.
Left-back Taylor, who netted his first senior goal in more than five years in the recent 1-1 draw at Colchester, believes goals from defence and midfield can ease the pressure on the forward line.
"We defend as a team and we also attack as a team," he said. "I sort of knew looking at last season and the amount of goals we lost in the summer it was always going to be important to chip in.
"We need goals from midfield, goals from the back and from set-pieces because we lost the best part of 40 goals in Jamie Paterson, Will Grigg and Febian Brandy.
"It was always going to be important to spread the goals around and we are starting to do that a little bit.
"They (the strikers) are putting a shift in helping out defending, so we need to help them out with the goals and creating chances."