9 | Erling Haaland - 2022/23 Performances

[braut]

Getting a lot of praise from Souness as well now.

 

[neel]

 

[Craig]

Laporte, Stones and are currently out of the side

That’s nowt to do with Haaland’s lack of service. Midfielders got the ball 3xs today and against the scum, had time for a touch and didn’t try to find Haaland run. Shocker they took an extra couple of touches and went sideways.

 

[Craig]

This isnt on haaland and how would kane do anything if we dont give him the ball or have runners like a son?

This is on pep and the coaching staff worrying too much about control that results in us not even giving the lad a chance

Agree it’s not on Haaland but the way we’re playing Kane would be better because he’s a much better all round footballer. He could lay the false 9 role with his eyes closed in our team and also finish like Sergio

 

[RayCTID]

That’s nowt to do with Haaland’s lack of service. Midfielders got the ball 3xs today and against the scum, had time for a touch and didn’t try to find Haaland run. Shocker they took an extra couple of touches and went sideways.

From the back four? Laporte is one of our best passers in that department.

 

[Manc123]

Agree it’s not on Haaland but the way we’re playing Haaland would be better because he’s a much better all round footballer. He could lay the false 9 role with his eyes closed in our team and also finish like Sergio

Its all if buts and maybes. play the false 9 role and pass to who though alvarez can pass and play that didnt work neither when haaland was injured. this isnt on haaland at all he seemed to be fitting in fine at the first part of the season up until the liverpool away game. Its funny though since the united game peps refused to play foden haaland grealish.

 

[Craig]

Its all if buts and maybes. play the false 9 role and pass to who though alvarez can pass and play that didnt work neither when haaland was injured. this isnt on haaland at all he seemed to be fitting in fine at the first part of the season up until the liverpool away game. Its funny though since the united game peps refused to play foden haaland grealish.

When we were playing the false 9 we didn’t particularly have runners other than Sterling (it’s something we’ve lacked for a while). I agree it’s on Pep and City that we’re not playing to Erling’s strengths now.

Subbing Mahrez today was also mind bending sub from from Pep

 

[Love_Each_Day]

It's as if we think it's still Foden or Torres up top where the pass has to be perfect or they'll be outpaced/bullied. There were a couple easy chances to put him through with him running against Davies/Dier, he'd win that battle most of the time. If we're going to send it wide every time we could just have signed someone like Mitrovic on much smaller wages.

 

[skillman]

He looks pissed off and has every right to be. We no doubt will have promised being a focal point in an expansive, attacking team and suddenly he’s feeding off scraps and having his runs ignored.

The sooner somebody in the team has the bollocks to try and find him, the better. They’re all too scared to lose the fucking ball and it shows.

No shots from your main man? What a crock of shite. Not his fault either, he’s trying his hardest to get the ball to his feet.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

That’s nowt to do with Haaland’s lack of service. Midfielders got the ball 3xs today and against the scum, had time for a touch and didn’t try to find Haaland run. Shocker they took an extra couple of touches and went sideways.

They have had that programmed into them and they can’t seem to change.

 

[Craig]

They have had that programmed into them and they can’t seem to change.

Bit like Foden no longer attacking fullbacks

 

[DAGW]

I wonder how long he’ll stick around here, making runs without players even considering playing him in. I imagine this thread is full of the sentiment.

 

[Withnail]

He looks pissed off and has every right to be. We no doubt will have promised being a focal point in an expansive, attacking team and suddenly he’s feeding off scraps and having his runs ignored.

The sooner somebody in the team has the bollocks to try and find him, the better. They’re all too scared to lose the fucking ball and it shows.

No shots from your main man? What a crock of shite. Not his fault either, he’s trying his hardest to get the ball to his feet.

He has every reason to be pissed off, he is feeding on scraps and hardly gets any service. The way we currently play with risk aversion football must drive Haaland mad.

 

[alexmcity]

0 goals at Liverpool, United, Chelsea and Spurs. Easy to blame the other players.

Last season, we had more goals after 21 PL games than this season. We were creating more chances and we were more solid in defence. Maybe Haaland has come in a transitional period. Next season will show whether he can make us better. It's quite obvious though that there's a lot, lot more to scoring goals as a team than having the best finisher(s) up front.

 

[Craig]

You seen Kane vs park bus teams for England? Contributes fuck all apart from taking pens

And setting shit loads up. He’s hardly formed his career on his pace on the counter has he!

 

[bluedreamer]

Do you really think Grealish, Mahrez, KDB, Bernado etc , some of the best players in the league wouldn’t pass to Haaland if they could. He spends too much time down the middle, gets marked out of the game, leaving no space for others to run into.
When we had no striker we had goals throughout the side. Defenders had no one to mark and the movement across the front six was impossible to contain.
Haaland is without doubt a great striker but we are a worse team with him.
I think Alvarez is a better bet for us long term.

 

[Craig]

From the back four? Laporte is one of our best passers in that department.

I know. Can’t remember him playing too many passes that have sent our centre forward clean through though. The lack of his passing from the back may inhibit us at times i’m not disputing that. My point is a fair few times today and against the rags our midfielders who are supposed to be our creative players had relatively decent chances to put a pass through to Haaland and decided to take a couple of touches and play 15 yards passes inside instead.

 

[Craig]

Do you really think Grealish, Mahrez, KDB, Bernado etc , some of the best players in the league wouldn’t pass to Haaland if they could. He spends too much time down the middle, gets marked out of the game, leaving no space for others to run into.
When we had no striker we had goals throughout the side. Defenders had no one to mark and the movement across the front six was impossible to contain.
Haaland is without doubt a great striker but we are a worse team with him.
I think Alvarez is a better bet for us long term.

So against utd and Spurs you’ve not seen about 6xs him make runs and our midfielders not play the early pass? Do you also think Foden wasn’t one on one with Milner about 5xs with space a year on from absolutely roasting him all game at Anfield and not stop and pass inside slowing down our play.

We also used to have very fast wingers who used to be able to skin fullbacks on the outside who have since been sold and replaced with slower players who cut inside and slow the play down. Wonder what the common denominator is here!

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

Pass him the fucking ball

 

[Bluewonder]

0 goals at Liverpool, United, Chelsea and Spurs. Easy to blame the other players.

Last season, we had more goals after 21 PL games than this season. We were creating more chances and we were more solid in defence. Maybe Haaland has come in a transitional period. Next season will show whether he can make us better. It's quite obvious though that there's a lot, lot more to scoring goals as a team than having the best finisher(s) up front.

When we were playing properly, he was scoring 1.5 goals a game.

Since we've started playing an 18 year old right back in midfield he isn't in the game.

The system is bollocks, and it's making everyone worse.