9 | Erling Haaland - 2022/23 Performances

[ninjamonkey]

Playing more direct to Haaland made sense tonight given they went man to man. If they do that you pick your best player and give it him as much as possible, no defender can handle him solo, he got Holding subbed at half time, he was doing his job. Arguably should have done better with the two chances where he's almost through but that's being harsh and in fairness it was good alert sweeping from their keeper.

His hold up play and aerial play was good tonight the problem was to play that way you have to have runners off him and they need pace, we don't have anybody willing to run in behind except maybe gundo from really deep which isn't happening if we go direct and we don't have any pace, Grealish or Mahrez aren't getting in behind from a ball up to Haaland. Alvarez and foden are probably our best bets if we plan on doing that again. It's an option, just needs tweaking.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Playing more direct to Haaland made sense tonight given they went man to man. If they do that you pick your best player and give it him as much as possible, no defender can handle him solo, he got Holding subbed at half time, he was doing his job. Arguably should have done better with the two chances where he's almost through but that's being harsh and in fairness it was good alert sweeping from their keeper.

His hold up play and aerial play was good tonight the problem was to play that way you have to have runners off him and they need pace, we don't have anybody willing to run in behind except maybe gundo from really deep which isn't happening if we go direct and we don't have any pace, Grealish or Mahrez aren't getting in behind from a ball up to Haaland. Alvarez and foden are probably our best bets if we plan on doing that again. It's an option, just needs tweaking.

Our players are way too far away from him. When he challenges there is no one anywhere near him.

 

[Gundogan's Moustache]

Honestly forgot he was playing tonight

 

[ninjamonkey]

Our players are way too far away from him. When he challenges there is no one anywhere near him.

Yep. Both wingers stuck to the line and were never getting close enough to him to get onto anything and the midfielders were occupying spaces further back dragging their markers away from the space infront of Haaland thus taking them out of play too.

The wingers needed to come in and play off him whether that be runs in behind him or just beside him for the cushion or to pick up seconds. It was like we only told ortega and Haaland we would be playing more direct and didn't bother telling the wingers. Frustrating because Haaland battled well and won his fair share of balls.

 

[madloaf]

Honestly forgot he was playing tonight

You must have saw him look at the 50 long balls played by ortega 10 yards over his head?

 

[Tevez City]

The players should try to pass/cross for other players & not only Haaland.

Use him to attract opposition players to create space for the rest.

 

[bluesmith]

Honestly forgot he was playing tonight

Odd as we clearly tried a different tactic of going long to him numerous times, he played it well but lacked support tonight.

 

[SamTheGuru]

I thought the game was won as soon as Rob Holden got booked.

 

[FantasyIreland]

He seems incredibly isolated in this set up.

Looked more comfortable when Alvarez was introduced to share the burden and fill the space previously unoccupied.

 

[carlosthejackal]

Bizarre to see him being used as a modern day Billy Whitehurst , hopefully it’s the last time .