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An undesirable record for Crouch

Peter Crouch failed to find the target in 18 games, but finally scored two in his 19th. How does he compare with other forwards in Liverpool's history?   How many games for LFC strikers to get their debut goal     Player Minutes Games Debut goal 1 Peter Crouch 1.229 19 03.12.2005 2 Arthur Rowley 1.019 11 19.04.1954 3 Ian Rush 813 10 30.09.1981 4 Michael Robinson 784 10 28.09.1983 5 Jack Balmer 531 6 07.12.1935 6 Kevin Baron 527 6 08.11.1947 7 Phil Boersma 480 7 04.11.1970 8 Emile Heskey 436 5 01.04.2000 9 Les Shannon 382 5 30.08.1948 10 Alf Arrowsmith 361 5 16.09.1963 11 Karl-Heinz Riedle 342 4 26.08.1997 12  Andy Carroll   338   6  11.04.2011  13 Alan Waddle 337 4 08.12.1973 14 Dean Saunders 332 4 27.08.1991 15 Fernando Morientes 316 4 01.02.2005 16 Ian St John 309 4 30.08.1961

*Strikers not included who played less than 10 games for the club.
*We decided to only include strikers since the 1945-46 season as we do not always have scoring minutes from way back in time so it's difficult to compare.
Here you can see players who scored on their debuts.

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