The Basildon boy has yet to score for the Sky Blues at the Ricoh Arena but Chris Coleman knows that goals from the former Wolves and Southend man are only a matter of time.
"Freddy hasn't hit the notes that he is capable of yet, it is as simple as that," said Coleman to the CT.
"I have talked to him about it many times and I don't talk about it any more because he knows that. "He is a good, good player with lovely natural ability and he believes in himself 100 per cent.
"It is hard for him because he is in a team that is not playing at full flow and is low on confidence and he is affected by that.
"The harder you work the more luck you get and he has to know that if he is not scoring, if he is working hard and doing the right things he is going to stay on the pitch. "That goes with all our players, if they stick to their jobs they have got more chance of staying on the pitch."
"If any of our strikers had banged in 12 goals by now I wouldn't be saying to them their work rate is not great, but if they are not scoring they need to be giving something to the team," he said.
"I think the one who has got it best is Clinton because even when he wasn't scoring he was putting a shift in.
"But Freddy has been working hard and I am just hoping and praying that he gets that goal sooner rather than later, and it needs to be at the Ricoh.
"He wants to score at the Ricoh in front of the fans because he knows they love him.
"We worked hard enough to get Freddy here and my opinion of him hasn't changed. Has he found it hard to hit the notes we expected? "Yes, he has and he knows that, but he is very capable of doing something that will take your breath away in a second and that's why our supporters love him because they are waiting for it, and it is going to come.
"That makes it exciting and they don't get on his back because he has got that little bit extra where he can show a flash of brilliance and scores or sets one up."