9 | Erling Haaland - 2022/23 Performances

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Love this video. In fact, I love any video with this man in it. He's authentic, he's funny, he's well-mannered, he's an absolute breath of fresh air.

With the talent he's got, he could so easily become another arrogant arsehole, but instead he just looks like a big kid having the time of his life and trying to do his dad proud. And I love how he actually gives answers in interviews instead of the same copy and paste soundbites we hear so often.

He's amazing. Phenomenal talent on the pitch and such a likable personality as well. He was extraordinary last night, a joy to watch.

So happy to have him for a few more months until Real snatch him away from us. Lol.
 
According to the sages on RAWK, he is both a boring player and on the largest goal bonus the game has ever seen.
 
Apart from his goals, Erling was more involved in the game last night. Hopefully this will be a recurring theme for the rest of the season and he continues to score for fun.

Quite noticeable we were more direct last night, feeding the ball into the channels for Erling to run into. I hope we continue to play like this as we will reap the benefits.
 
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From the (spit) Guardian :-)

As the players left the pitch at half time, the Etihad Stadium’s in-house big screen began to replay, in slow-mo close-up, the moment that had just passed, Manchester City’s third goal in what would eventually become a 7-0 (seven) victory.

There was something ludicrously lovely about the imagery, the basic human design, the cold, cold beauty of the sky blue shirts, the snowflakes falling in slow, fat, perfect flakes, Erling Haaland scrolling past the faces in the crowd and gliding in a single movement into the perfect Olympic-grade knee slide, a footballer who expresses power, edge and certainty more clearly than any other.


He was, frankly, jaw-dropping here; unstoppable in a way that felt different to any other, previous version of unstoppable, sui generis in its outsize strengths.

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City moved Leipzig around, stretched the lines at will, and did it all so easily, dissecting their opponents like a practice corpse on the laboratory gurney. And secondly, how far can City take this now? It was by no means a one-man show. City counter-pressed fiercely and resisted RB Leipzig’s physicality all over the pitch. Bernardo Silva was routinely brilliant, not really a defensive or attacking midfielder these days, just an all-round roving skill-goblin.

The real test will come against one of Europe’s elite, a question that hasn’t been asked yet, but then Europe’s elite is an ever-shrinking circle.

It will be fascinating to watch when it happens. But this was as close as City have come so far to marrying that sense of control and high technique with a razor edge. It was delicately, brutally unstoppable.


Whilst there are a couple of the usual Guardian style digs, there is no hiding in the writing the utter jaw drop appreciation of that performance last night. And they do write some real pretty stuff when they want.
 
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I get the feeling theres much more to come at the end of the season. People talk about our style and not getting the best out of him, and that’s partially true, but him not having to press or sprint as much as he would at Dortmund, Liverpool, Madrid etc means he has not be getting these bad injuries he was in previous years. We’re managing him very well.
 
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