9 | Erling Haaland - 2022/23 Performances

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alexmcity said:
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.
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Carragher (of all people) said last season that he didn’t think Haaland would make any difference to how many goals we score over a season. He was right, although it could end up being less.

However, I think we are more likely to win the CL with him.
 
bluedreamer said:
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.
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He makes about a dozen runs a game where he wants it played into space down the channels to run onto and is ignored. He will outpace every single defender in the world if he has the ball into space to run onto.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Carragher (of all people) said last season that he didn’t think Haaland would make any difference to how many goals we score over a season. He was right, although it could end up being less.

However, I think we are more likely to win the CL with him.
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His quality in front of goal could well be the difference in the tight later stages of the CL. The question is, will we supply him when it matters?
 
bluedreamer said:
The trouble is there isnt any space for him to run into. The defences sit so deep.
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There is though but we don’t play the early pass. There was a few times at old trafford and there was at least 3 times today. It was pretty clear to see and the commentators pointed it out.
 
Seriously I think we would be better with a Sterling-Haaland-Jesus trio upfront. Jesus putting in hell of a lot of work but never was clinical enough or a main scorer but as at Arsenal he makes the others around him play better. Sterling is incredible in tight spaces (when in form) and also making space for others while being in good position a lot to receive the ball but also having issues in finishing good chances. Haaland would have complemented both probably.

Grealish-Haaland-Mahrez trio compared to that is lot less mobile, lot less pressing, lot less speed.

Sterling can also play from the right, Jesus could play from the left, thats another bit of variation, you will never see Mahrez on the left or Grealish on the right with Pep.

but it was a question for some time how do we solve that they all want to play and all had expiring contracts in 2023, so we decided to renew with Mahrez and sell Sterling/Jesus, not sure that was a clever move really.
also we bought in Grealish who we didnt really need which also caused Sterling and Jesus game time more limited as Grealish did not replace anyone at first(in the sense of one in, one out)
 
Damanino said:
but it was a question for some time how do we solve that they all want to play and all had expiring contracts in 2023, so we decided to renew with Mahrez and sell Sterling/Jesus, not sure that was a clever move really.
also we bought in Grealish who we didnt really need which also caused Sterling and Jesus game time more limited as Grealish did not replace anyone at first(in the sense of one in, one out)
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You are just trying to blame everything on Grealish.

Jesus and Sterling both did not show any real interest to renew their contract BEFORE we brought in Grealish. Club offered extension multiple times to Sterling in 2019 and 2020 and he always found some excuses to refuse to sign it. Club feared that they were trying to run down the contract and go free. So they brought in Grealish in advance because we all know so called bed in period for Pep system.


If Sterling wanted to keep his place he should sign the contract. He had all the time but chose not to. Then he had to accept the consequence - a new winger shared his minutes.
 
Honestly, we’re the perfect team for him, but we’re not playing well. If he was making all these lung-bursting runs, he’d be getting the injuries he had at Dortmund. More considering all the extra games he’d play.

We need to play the ball to him, but if this is us underperforming, imagine if everyone was fit & firing.
 
If I were him, I’d be thinking about fcuking off to a club that knows how to set up for his strengths. He must have expected better than this when he joined.
 
Players should have more trust in themselves and at least TRY to give Haaland these balls...
Haaland vs goalkeeper is VERY VERY likely to score, so sometimes it's worth trying more difficult passes. Safe passes the whole game makes sense while using false 9, City now have a proper finisher...
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He looks devastated,frustrated and very angry.

Hopefully he isnt regretting the move,because i wouldn't blame him.

Pep is killing his game,just as he has done with a couple of others.
 
sir baconface said:
If I were him, I’d be thinking about fcuking off to a club that knows how to set up for his strengths. He must have expected better than this when he joined.
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His personal stats are better than at any time in his career. He's breaking individual records. He won nothing with Dortmund. He's likely to win something with City (next season). Maybe we will do much better next season, if we get it right in the transfer market. It's not a given, though. Bernie and Gundo need to be replaced, and Kevin turns 32...Transitional period.
 
SWP's back said:
That’s on Pep.
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And then it will be on the next manager. And then it won't be on the manager after the next manager, for Haaland will have moved (not because we don't create enough chances for him, but because he's that type of a person).

I don't buy the thought that it's easy to feed Haaland with good passes and that most of our problems will be solved just by trying to find him again and again. We are City, not Haaland plus 10 players.
 
Itd said:
Players should have more trust in themselves and at least TRY to give Haaland these balls...
Haaland vs goalkeeper is VERY VERY likely to score, so sometimes it's worth trying more difficult passes. Safe passes the whole game makes sense while using false 9, City now have a proper finisher...
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You could screen shot 50+ of these through the season that we haven’t played in for Haaland. Unacceptable from our players. Just what the fuck are they playing at?
 
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