9 | Erling Haaland - 2022/23 Performances

[jollylescott]

Pleasing to see him break his hour long goal drought lol.

As others have said, opposition defences are now focused on surrounding him with 3 or 4 players, which opens enormous space for Phil and the other attackers. The goal that Mahrez scored was a good example. The ball floated across from Rodri, Haarland was surrounded, and Mahrez didn’t have a player within 5 yards of him.

The dippers are going to have awful problems with him next week, and I think Haarland will go full terminator mode for that game.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Needs to stay at home and work on his finishing for Klanfield.

Maybe.

 

[SebastianBlue]

 

[Hayley Croppers chopper]

What bullshit. I’ve been going to City since I was 7 in the 2001/2002 season and that Aguero goal is one of the the best moments of my life. Nothing football wise will ever top that.

The previous 20 odd minutes were the worst of my football watching career

 

[mdj0520]

If Haaland brings the UCL-trophy with a game-winning goal, it'll outshine Aguero's 93:20 moment.

Mods, ban him

 

[Franny 1234]

Skybet were offering 3-1 he wouldn't score today. CTID

 

[footballmanager]

Hes already premier league biggest star. Treat him well lads

 

[MarsLlama]

I’ll wait to see if Haaland could ever score a goal like this.

He absolutely could. That's not a knock on Aguero or anything, but Haaland can finish from pretty much anywhere.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Not to shit on jesus as I was a big fan and think we would be a better squad if he was still here but Haaland has now scored more in the league already than Jesus's best tally for a season with us. Ridiculous.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Could easily have had another hat trick had things not slightly gone against him,and its crazy to be slightly disappointed he only got the one.

But did anyone think he actually wouldnt score??

The kid is insane.

 

[Blue and true]

I’ll wait to see if Haaland could ever score a goal like this.

I can only assume you haven't seen some of his goals for Dortmund? Go and look at the volley he scored against Schalke. Did Serg ever score a goal like that? That's not a slight on Serg by the way; he's beloved at City for a reason.

Both are/were capable of individual brilliance. But let's have it right, Haaland is better than Agüero. We're talking about someone who could become the best of his generation. As wonderful as Serg was, he never entered those conversations.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I can only assume you haven't seen some of his goals for Dortmund? Go and look at the volley he scored against Schalke. Did Serg ever score a goal like that? That's not a slight on Serg by the way; he's beloved at City for a reason.

Both are/were capable of individual brilliance. But let's have it right, Haaland is better than Agüero. We're talking about someone who could become the best of his generation. As wonderful as Serg was, he never entered those conversations.

Have you read the rest of the thread?

 

[MarsLlama]

His 'bad games' are matches where he only scores once. That's hilarious.

 

[mdj0520]

If Haaland brings the UCL-trophy with a game-winning goal, it'll outshine Aguero's 93:20 moment.

The more I think about it the more this comment winds me up.

It wouldn't even be as important as dickovs goal or the yaya derby semi goal.

It's not about the competition or the ability level of the player. It's about momentum shifts and ending long eras of hurt.

Haaland will more than likely end up a better player than aguero and depending on the length of time he's here he could break Aguero's tally and win more stuff, but that doesn't necessarily make him a legend. The leap from serial league winners to winning the champions league for the first time just isn't as big a leap as 40 odd years without winning a league to winning it against your rivals in the last seconds of a game from 2-1 down.

 

[Blue and true]

Have you read the rest of the thread?

Not all of it, why?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Not all of it, why?

The debate about Kun vs Haaland was chatted about and pretty much decided that it’s silly to compare the two, a point I made in my next post on the thread after the one you quoted.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Strange game football. Erling has scored nearly twice as many league goals than Kane, yet Kane’s have won his team 2 more points than Erling

 

[langy]

Shame about ‘only’ getting 1 goal but again got in the positions to get at least 3 and, as we know, on another day he gets a hat trick.

One of his biggest assets is drawing defenders away. Mahrez getting a free shot from 8 yards out doesn’t happen last season really, both centre halves attending to Haaland instead.

Same for foden chip he drew the 2 centre backs to him

 

[carlosthejackal]

The more I think about it the more this comment winds me up.

It wouldn't even be as important as dickovs goal or the yaya derby semi goal.

It's not about the competition or the ability level of the player. It's about momentum shifts and ending long eras of hurt.

Haaland will more than likely end up a better player than aguero and depending on the length of time he's here he could break Aguero's tally and win more stuff, but that doesn't necessarily make him a legend. The leap from serial league winners to winning the champions league for the first time just isn't as big a leap as 40 odd years without winning a league to winning it against your rivals in the last seconds of a game from 2-1 down.

Not arsed one little bit over who is or isn’t the better striker , just glad we had the privilege to watch Aguero for so long and now we have Haaland.

 

[Dodgy Gangster]

You’ve gotta love how annoyed he is at Cole Palmer when with City leading 4-0 in the 90th minute Cole has the temerity to have a pretty decent shot on target rather than play it across to him.

He’s a goal scoring terminator, he can’t be bargained with, he can’t be reasoned with.