9 | Erling Haaland - 2022/23 Performances

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Find the talk about him not taking many touches amusing. Partly because he's playing well, scoring bucket loads and is a massive threat every time he plays, and partly because he's a very intelligent player and his link up/more touches will come when the team adapts to him (and maybe when we play teams who don't sit too deep).

What will bitter hacks like Andy Dunn and barney ronay criticize him for then?

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skillman said:
Personally couldn't care less how many touches he has as long as he scores goals. That's what we've been crying out for since Aguero's last season and if somebody being clinical means they're not used in the build up as much then so be it.

What does interest me is how Aguero was told to change how he plays when Pep first came in - to transition from an all-out striker into one that is involved in the build up - or he would be benched/sold then fast forward a few years Pep has gone the complete other way with the Viking.
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If he is not getting as involved as others, then he is saving his energy for when it really matters.
 
nottsco2-0 said:
He makes me grin ear to ear in a way that I can't quite describe. I hold a dear love for some of our current and past players, but this lad just makes me want to giggle. And look forward to just seeing him every game. Maybe Sergio was just exciting 11 years ago, but I genuinely don't ever remember being this giddy about a player
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Me and you both mate.
 
I thought that Haaland "merely" guided the ball into the net, but from this angle it seems clear that he actually gave it quite a powerful little flick:

 
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The Fat el Hombre said:
Find the talk about him not taking many touches amusing. Partly because he's playing well, scoring bucket loads and is a massive threat every time he plays, and partly because he's a very intelligent player and his link up/more touches will come when the team adapts to him (and maybe when we play teams who don't sit too deep).

What will bitter hacks like Andy Dunn and barney ronay criticize him for then?

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Andy Dunne just another liar. Haaland was our best player last night before his goal. He never stopped running and his link play was good. Fake news as usual. What a twat Dunne the LFC fan is.
 
The Fat el Hombre said:
Find the talk about him not taking many touches amusing. Partly because he's playing well, scoring bucket loads and is a massive threat every time he plays, and partly because he's a very intelligent player and his link up/more touches will come when the team adapts to him (and maybe when we play teams who don't sit too deep).

What will bitter hacks like Andy Dunn and barney ronay criticize him for then?

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Love to see what this bitter scouse twat has to say about the overpriced pudding that is Nunez.
 
The Fat el Hombre said:
Find the talk about him not taking many touches amusing. Partly because he's playing well, scoring bucket loads and is a massive threat every time he plays, and partly because he's a very intelligent player and his link up/more touches will come when the team adapts to him (and maybe when we play teams who don't sit too deep).

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The Fat el Hombre said:
Cascarino and Kevin Campbell saying on TalkSport now that City are still getting used to him yet. Cascarino said "if he's touching the ball 20 times, what happens when he starts touching it 40 times?"

At least there's some of them that can see it
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Not sure what's more amazing - sense being spoken on TalkSport or the fact a pundit has recognised that!
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Andy Dunne just another liar. Haaland was our best player last night before his goal. He never stopped running and his link play was good. Fake news as usual. What a twat Dunne the LFC fan is.
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Yeah,his link up play was very good. He dropped deep a couple of times and spread the play brilliantly. We just needed him to stay up in the main and be ready to pounce when we finally supplied him and wow how he delivered again.
 
Football has been around since the late 19th Century, isn't it crazy how we're just now learning that you score points by touching the ball the most times, and not by putting said ball in that big conspicuous white thing called a net?

Either way we'll still be fucking safe, because we pass and touch the ball better than any other team this country has seen.
 
There's been a stat mentioned recently comparing him to other recent PL goal scorers in the six yard box - with 8 of his 13 goals being this kind of close range finishes.

What's interesting is that this is actually an anomaly for him. Throughout his career he's been scoring almost three quarters of his goals from outside the six yard box. Last season he only had 4 shots in the Bundesliga inside the six yard box!

Obviously it's a big difference in playing style at City, and it's a almost a cliché that we've been waiting for a 6 yard box player, but his numbers are so crazy that you'd assume he's overperforming by some distance, and it will settle down to closer to his past average (or even slightly below, given he's playing at a tougher level). Now, that would have still resulted in world class numbers, but it's what I'd have expected.

The scary thing is, that if these opportunities in the six yard box are genuinely something that's an addition to his game at City, he could end up with numbers that really do dwarf anything we've seen before!
 
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