9 | Erling Haaland - 2023/24

[skillman]

People always say crap about how Haaland doesn't impact the game beyond goals, which is rubbish BS.

This is an excellent thread that highlights how Haaland has insane gravity to generate chances his teammates.

You will not be disappointed if you spend few minutes of your life reading the whole thread.

It stems from people thinking only physically touching the ball means you're impacting a game. People who understand football, on the other hand, realise it's not as simple as that.

Defenders are shit scared (rightly so) of Haaland and that naturally leaves space for others while they double-up. It's been happening for years - with Silva, Yaya, De Bruyne.

 

[St.Pauli support]

They'll pay us in 2084. That is, in 100 instalments, one paid every leap year, starting in 2084.

Could be worse though.

 

[Blueroses]

Haaland is in League of his own. We have special player in our team.

Article below about best finisher in the league. Screen shots of the table good read.

Who are the Premier League's most clinical strikers? Haaland, Salah, Kane, Nunez, Ferguson

BBC Sport statistician Chris Collinson takes a close look at the best finishers in the Premier League.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[bluenova]

People always say crap about how Haaland doesn't impact the game beyond goals, which is rubbish BS.

This is an excellent thread that highlights how Haaland has insane gravity to generate chances his teammates.

You will not be disappointed if you spend few minutes of your life reading the whole thread.

Gravity = making professional defenders play like 8 year olds bunching around the ball on a school playground.

 

[Deleted member 81382]

Took his goal well but he should've scored three or four today.

 

[MCFCFanTX]

He's been off so far this year. Still has 7 goals on 5 games. We will be a different beast once he gets into his proper form.

 

[Crooked_rain]

2 sitters missed today. I actually think he lost his bearings for the first goal for a moment and he thought he was more central to the goal than he was, hence it ending up so far wide.

The funny thing if he didn't miss the first, he probably doesn't miss the second. It's like he tried to over compensate for the first and put it back into the middle of the goal.

What I like about him through is he can seem to put it behind him within the same game and still come up with a very good finish at the end. That's what elite athletes do.

They won't be the last sitters he misses. It happens to even the best strikers.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Seeing the relief in his face after finally scoring today and seeing the same look against sheffield united too shows he knows he was bobbins. If your striker is having a stinker and is still banging them in. There's absolutely no worries whatsoever. Hattrick incoming next week.

 

[city warrior]

Bad match overall, but I want to point how much of a team player he is (and for a striker that says a lot) when he chose not to tap in Bernardo's 2nd goal.

 

[pappelg]

 

[Withnail]

If at first you don't succeed, you try, try again.

Frustrating afternoon for the big man, but really pleased he scored.

 

[kippax123]

I just seem to like him more and more each game.

 

[bluemonkey71]

If at first you don't succeed, you try, try again.

Frustrating afternoon for the big man, but really pleased he scored.

Yep a hat trick went begging but he kept on going.

 

[ford7]

I hold him to a high standard, so I can't say I'm too happy with his play lately. His finishing is all over the place and has been for some time now. He's still young, but definitely needs to put in some extra shifts during training to work on his shooting.

 

[kun]

2 absolute sitters, 0 scored, 1 on target
3 great chances, 1 scored, all on target
2 difficult chances, 0 scored, both on target

He was dreadful infront of goal today by his own standards.
Still, after 2, 3, 4 misses he didn't once stop looking for more and got his rewards in the end.
Also - 2 sitters aside - his other misses were all reasonable efforts mostly forcing excellent saves.

On most days he'd score a hat trick today, on a good day he scores 5.

 

[Gabriel]

Not overly concerned with the misses. On another day he could have had 6, and we all know that will happen sooner or later. He was heavy in his pass to Foden but his link up play was better, especially when he dropped deeper and broke free from contact with the West Ham defenders. He’s going to have to keep doing that because his weakness is still taking the ball in when the defender puts the press on him.

 

[skillman]

Not particularly arsed if he misses a load as long as he gets goals eventually - and important ones at that.

The one away at Sheffield Utd was important and today’s was to kill off the game.

 

[dancity19]

I’m sure the common theme after his missed against Newcastle was that “he will never miss that many”.
It’s incredible to say that a man who scores as many as he does misses too many chances, but he does, or certainly is at the moment.

He’s both a goal machine, but also pretty wasteful on current form.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

I’m sure the common theme after his missed against Newcastle was that “he will never miss that many”.
It’s incredible to say that a man who scores as many as he does misses too many chances, but he does, or certainly is at the moment.

He’s both a goal machine, but also pretty wasteful on current form.

Aguero was the same. I can remember leaving the Etihad numerous times thinking if only Sergio took all his chances.

 

[mccity]

Despite all the misses, he's only marginally behind his exceptionally high expected goals per 90. I think the beauty of Haaland is that his incredible physicality and movement mean that he'll always get loads of chances, and because of his finishing, he's going to get a huge number of goals because of it.

He failed with 6 decent chances and scored on his 7th. How many other strikers would get that many chances away at a team like West Ham?