Harry Cornick admits goalscoring is not the strongest part of his game, but says he’s working on it every day to try to adjust to the Championship where he knows being clinical is key.
The forward has three strikes in his last five games and the latest of those came in Saturday’s 3-2 defeat at Queens Park Rangers, when keeper Tom Lumley inexplicably passed to him allowing his to pick his spot in an empty net from 35 yards.
The former Bournemouth youngster had raced through earlier, as the Rs rampaged to a 3-0 lead within 30 minutes, but he hooked his shot wide from a wide angle.
“I know it’s not my strongest attribute, finishing, but I’m trying to work on it. Hopefully I can get better and score more goals,” Cornick said.
“You get less chances (in the Championship), so every chance you get you’ve got to score, really, because you might not get two or three chances a game.
“You Might only get that one chance so when get that chance you need to bury it because otherwise, you’re not going to score. I had two or three chances (against QPR) so I probably should have scored one more, but it’s the way it goes I need to work on it.”
Graeme Jones has been giving Cornick individual tuition to help improve his strike-rate and the forward said: “He’s done a few drills with me, little one-v-one drills, where he is trying to teach me. What I should do and how I should play. He’s been a massive help to me so far so hopefully I can keep learning.
“I’m practising every day, trying to get better at certain aspects. Hopefully, if I can keep improving and the team keeps improving, we can get better and learn from our mistakes and try to put them right.”
While at one end they’re finding the target, as the division’s joint top scorers with 12, Town, who host Hull on Saturday, are yet to keep a clean sheet at the other.
Defensively they’ve got a record of conceding 13, which is only trumped by basement boys Stoke City.
Cornick said: “The defence is something you’ve got to work on and build towards because it’s different, this level. In League One You can give away a few cheap chances for other teams, but in the Championship you’re going to get punished because there’s better players in it.”
