9 | Erling Haaland - 2022/23 Performances

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Night everyone!!

Just to put it out there, won’t be best signing ever if he scores tonight or flop if he doesn’t.
 
Sadcafe have a thread on Erling, called Erling Haaland Man City watch .This morning the penny dropped and reality hit them hard, they are not happy that they are going to have to watch basically a rerun of the Bayern goal week in week out, and i couldnt be happier !!
 
lonestay said:
Sadcafe have a thread on Erling, called Erling Haaland Man City watch .This morning the penny dropped and reality hit them hard, they are not happy that they are going to have to watch basically a rerun of the Bayern goal week in week out, and i couldnt be happier !!
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But then you just gets posts like this one..


There is always this conundrum with Pep. Is he a very good coach or a very good tactician? I saw Haaland today, and he was playing as much non-Halaandish as you can expect from him, thanks to Pep. The guy takes the ball bulldozes towards the goal and rips the net for Dortmund. Today he looked like a Tall White Raheen Sterling trying to square balls to non-existing players.

Pep's system is so dominating at times players look repressed serving it. The system itself is great and attractive, but I do feel players choke under it curtailing their individual brilliance. You have those one or two odd balls like Messi, KDB etc. But most players including Bernardo Silva would do much better and offer way more in a free-flowing system, where the structure is not all.
 
Manchester_lalala said:
But then you just gets posts like this one..


There is always this conundrum with Pep. Is he a very good coach or a very good tactician? I saw Haaland today, and he was playing as much non-Halaandish as you can expect from him, thanks to Pep. The guy takes the ball bulldozes towards the goal and rips the net for Dortmund. Today he looked like a Tall White Raheen Sterling trying to square balls to non-existing players.

Pep's system is so dominating at times players look repressed serving it. The system itself is great and attractive, but I do feel players choke under it curtailing their individual brilliance. You have those one or two odd balls like Messi, KDB etc. But most players including Bernardo Silva would do much better and offer way more in a free-flowing system, where the structure is not all.
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I would imagine the idiot that wrote that about Pep’s system spent most of last season bemoaning they rags lack of organisation and no identity in their tactics?
 
Manchester_lalala said:
But then you just gets posts like this one..


There is always this conundrum with Pep. Is he a very good coach or a very good tactician? I saw Haaland today, and he was playing as much non-Halaandish as you can expect from him, thanks to Pep. The guy takes the ball bulldozes towards the goal and rips the net for Dortmund. Today he looked like a Tall White Raheen Sterling trying to square balls to non-existing players.

Pep's system is so dominating at times players look repressed serving it. The system itself is great and attractive, but I do feel players choke under it curtailing their individual brilliance. You have those one or two odd balls like Messi, KDB etc. But most players including Bernardo Silva would do much better and offer way more in a free-flowing system, where the structure is not all.
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Bernardo Silva wouldn't be a better player in other systems because his strengths (infinite engine, great dribbling and covering of the ball) are for team play, he doesn't have the creativity, shooting or passing skills for being an individual star. All the important players that have gone in Pep era have been worse in other teams (Sane is a shadow of what he was), and I don't think there is a single player in our team that doesn't play to the maximum of their abilities. Ederson is as free as a GK can be, same with KDB or Cancelo. Sterling was also played to his strengths (pace and movement) and the same will be with Haaland.

Yes, Pep has a rigid structure on his philosophy, but he adapts it perfectly to make each player a more complete and better suited for the team and the individual.
 
Good signs that he already looks settled and liked in the team. Flickering signs of him and Jack building up a decent friendship and connection.
 
What stood out to me is that his physical presence when he presses makes defenders panic. We all know Jesus was superb at pressing because of the effort he put in...Haalands physicality means that he barely has to break into a sweat and he is on the defenders and they panic.

His presence also creates so much space as defenders are naturally drawn to him...foden especially if player further forward is going to a have a field day....

A front forward 3 out of foden, bernardo, alvarez and haaland would cause havoc.

Or:

Foden------Haaland--------Alvarez

--------KDB-----------Bernardo

----------------Rodri-----------------

Cancello--Laporte----Dias-----Walker

----------Ederson------------------------

That is a scary starting 11 ------work rate in the front 5 is phenominal, creativity in abundance, pace, finishing plus also walker and Cancello (or Cucurella if we get him) on the flanks - teams would have to go route one to get out.

You could then easily swap Alvarez and foden out for Mahrez/ Grealish ----would also be interesting to see Grealish more centrally with KDB pushing one of Foden or Bernardo out wide

If we need to be more solid centrally you drop one of those and add Phllips next to Rodri
 
simon23 said:
What stood out to me is that his physical presence when he presses makes defenders panic. We all know Jesus was superb at pressing because of the effort he put in...Haalands physicality means that he barely has to break into a sweat and he is on the defenders and they panic.

His presence also creates so much space as defenders are naturally drawn to him...foden especially if player further forward is going to a have a field day....

A front forward 3 out of foden, bernardo, alvarez and haaland would cause havoc.

Or:

Foden------Haaland--------Alvarez

--------KDB-----------Bernardo

----------------Rodri-----------------

Cancello--Laporte----Dias-----Walker

----------Ederson------------------------

That is a scary starting 11 ------work rate in the front 5 is phenominal, creativity in abundance, pace, finishing plus also walker and Cancello (or Cucurella if we get him) on the flanks - teams would have to go route one to get out.

You could then easily swap Alvarez and foden out for Mahrez/ Grealish ----would also be interesting to see Grealish more centrally with KDB pushing one of Foden or Bernardo out wide

If we need to be more solid centrally you drop one of those and add Phllips next to Rodri
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Someone sounds very excited
 
Ric said:
The US Interior Secretary, thankfully (although obviously I wouldn’t wish injury on her either).
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What was she doing hiking in the mountains, surely that’s the job of the exterior secretary? The interior secretary, should be in the kitchen doing the washing up / making dinner, or on hand when one wants a cup of tea!
 
It may have just been a sort of footballing PTSD unique to Bayern defenders, but the thing that stood out to me most last night in his short cameo was how his mere presence disrupted their defence. I don’t mean his runs or languid pressing or physically in the box—though that also plays a part.

I mean the obvious nervousness him just being on the pitch instilled in the Bayern back four. They were so focused on keeping him contained (good luck with that), they left immense amounts of space for Jack, Julian, and especially Kev.

Having Erling and Kev on at the same time is befuddling for the opposition. Who do we double mark? Who should be the focus of our containment strategy? Who is the bigger threat?

Then add Alvarez—when opposition defenders work out that he makes Gabby look like an especially docile pensioner having an early tea—and the guile and energy of Grealish, Foden, and Palmer to the mix and you have a nightmare for defensive setups.

This season is going to be very interesting (and hopefully glorious)!
 
Manchester_lalala said:
But then you just gets posts like this one..


There is always this conundrum with Pep. Is he a very good coach or a very good tactician? I saw Haaland today, and he was playing as much non-Halaandish as you can expect from him, thanks to Pep. The guy takes the ball bulldozes towards the goal and rips the net for Dortmund. Today he looked like a Tall White Raheen Sterling trying to square balls to non-existing players.

Pep's system is so dominating at times players look repressed serving it. The system itself is great and attractive, but I do feel players choke under it curtailing their individual brilliance. You have those one or two odd balls like Messi, KDB etc. But most players including Bernardo Silva would do much better and offer way more in a free-flowing system, where the structure is not all.
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And that’s all fact is it
 
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