ANDONI Iraola insists the answer to Cherries’ goalscoring woes is not as simple as more shooting practice, instead calling on his players to “value each chance”.

Describe creating numerous chances, Cherries have been wasteful in front of goal in the past month.

Since the swashbuckling 5-0 win over Swansea City in the FA Cup, Cherries have scored just five goals in the subsequent six matches, all of which have been winless.

The clearest example of the struggles in front of goal came on Tuesday night, where Cherries lost 1-0 to Championship Leicester as they were knocked out of the cup, despite racking up 27 shots across 120 minutes of action. Only four of those found the target.

Cherries also scored just one of 25 shots in defeat at Fulham during a forgettable February.

Dominic Solanke has shone in front of goal this term with 16 from 29 appearances.

Solanke’s chief support in attack in Justin Kluivert (5), Antoine Semenyo (4), Marcus Tavernier (3), Luis Sinisterra (3) and Dango Ouattara (0) have fewer goals than the talismanic striker between them.

“In the last games we are having a lot of shots and a lot of chances, but we are not finishing well,” admitted Iraola, when asked how he can fix the issues in front of goal.

“This is obvious. We are missing the shots, especially shooting a lot high.

“It is not a matter of okay let’s shoot 200 today and 200 times tomorrow.

“It is a matter of valuing each chance, each shot and giving the importance to every control.

“At the high level, you don’t have a chance every five minutes.

“You have maybe one and if you are lucky and playing well, maybe you have another and maybe your teammate has another.

“So every time you are close to their box and you are confident enough to shoot, you have to value it’s importance.

“But the thing I don’t want is to lose confidence of ‘I am not going to shoot because I have been shooting very bad the last three times’.

“No, we have to trust our players, reinforce them and give them the confidence to shoot from long range or wherever they feel they can be dangerous.”

Without a league win since beating Fulham on Boxing Day, Cherries now have a favourable run of fixtures, starting away at Burnley on Sunday (1pm).

After that, they face the other two clubs currently in the bottom three in Sheffield United and Luton Town.

Cherries also have home fixtures against Everton and Crystal Palace in the foreseeable future.

“It is a key part of the season,” said Iraola.

“It is obviously a moment where we need the wins, we need the points and I feel we arrive well to this part, but we have to show it. We have to get the results.

“We have to go there (Turf Moor) and not be afraid to challenge ourselves, to see which of the teams is better, to win our duels against the Burnley players and to get the result.

“We know we have to improve especially on the offensive side, we need to score goals. We need to go with this hunger to arrive, to finish the crosses, because it is what makes the difference.”

Cherries were praised for their performance against Manchester City last weekend, although were unable to take anything from the champions as they fell to a 1-0 defeat.

Asked if the type of display they produced in that game and the 2-2 draw at Newcastle United the previous week are now the benchmark, Iraola said: “Once you show you have this level, you have this intensity, this capacity, you have to start from there and then improve.

“Because even this is not enough.

“We have to keep the good things we were doing, especially in the last two league games, but we have to be more efficient if we want to take more credit for the things we are doing.

“We are coming from a bad run of results, even if I think the team is doing very well.

“We again need to go there (Burnley) and try to win the game.

We are drawing some games that are keeping us there, but to jump in the standings, the confidence comes when you win games.”