9 | Erling Haaland - 2023/24

[shemnel]

Scruffy and scruffy. Bit off it early days.

 

[Bluewars]

Man as much as I love that we have Haaland.. I wish he had Kun's first touch that would cushion & set up his strike with his second touch.

His only real flaw, hope he improves there!

love the kid, but he has one of the worst first touches Ive seen at City.

 

[kaz7]

Models himself on zlatan , doesnt press and waits for the ball to come to him rather than going to the ball, has to up his game , he got plenty of service this time

 

[warringtonblue]

We have a run of games now against teams likely to end up mid and lower level in the league by next May. He should be able to bag a few.

A run of games where they will pack the defence

 

[mancityscot]

Frustrating player at times, at least with Alvarez you get effort.
Haaland is just goals, so when he doesn’t score he offers not much else

 

[lastmanback]

His Hold up play and first touch needs to improve.

 

[dancity19]

Frustrating player at times, at least with Alvarez you get effort.
Haaland is just goals, so when he doesn’t score he offers not much else

Yes. When he scores as many as he did last season you can’t exactly complain. He got a good number of assists, too.

It’s undeniable that his scoring in his last 8 or so competitive games has dropped off dramatically. Hope that’s not a cause for concern, and there are reasons for it.

 

[vmsuhail]

As many goals as he scores for us, he has no goals in FA cup semi final, FA cup final, CL semi final, CL final, community shield (x2) and the super cup.

Certainly has scope to improve in the later stage cup matches/finals.

Exactly how I wanted to happen. I didn't want the narrative of "Pep won the Treble because of Haaland" or "Pep cannot win the CL without Messi or Haaland".

 

[Mr Partridge]

His start to the season is exactly the same as last year. Struggled in the community shield, two away goals in the first game and then none in the first home game.

Hopefully what came after is the same as well.

 

[The Scarlet Pimpernel]

No way near his standards. Pretty weird touch especially in first half. Offered not much tonight.

Sell him ?