9 | Erling Haaland - 2022/23 Performances

[MadchesterCity]

Maybe the answer is to have him wide in a 3

 

[Deleted member 77198]

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.

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.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

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.

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.

 

[bluedreamer]

The trouble is there isnt any space for him to run into. The defences sit so deep.

 

[M16 citeh]

Just play him in

 

[dronefromsector7G]

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.

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?

 

[Craig]

The trouble is there isnt any space for him to run into. The defences sit so deep.

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.

 

[paulsimpson]

The trouble is there isnt any space for him to run into. The defences sit so deep.

Plenty of opportunities existed today where the ball wasn't played into him. Its crazy

 

[Damanino]

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)

 

[applejuice]

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