9 | Erling Haaland - 2023/24

[dancity19]

So just to be clear, 7 games, 7 goals and 2 assists, and we are even debating that's he's having a rough patch?

Those chances he's missing wouldn't even be chances for 95% of strikers as they wouldn't have the intelligence to even be in that position

Scored in all 3 away league games, and a hatrick in a home game. He could have 15 league goals by now and that's being prudent

I think he might be fine, but I've got previous for getting things wrong quite often!

You’ve kind of contradicted yourself there. He’s got 7 goals, but “he could have had 15 league goals and that’s being prudent”. So you’ve effectively said he’s missed more chances than he’s put away.

No one is saying he isn’t amazing. He will score loads of goals, but his finishing is way off so far this season.

 

[chris85mcfc]

You’ve kind of contradicted yourself there. He’s got 7 goals, but “he could have had 15 league goals and that’s being prudent”. So you’ve effectively said he’s missed more chances than he’s put away.

No one is saying he isn’t amazing. He will score loads of goals, but his finishing is way off so far this season.

Of course he's missed more chances than he's scored, as does every single striker in the history of football!

If you think his finishing is off because he's only scored 7 goals in 5 games ao far this season, instead of 15, then thats fine.

 

[dancity19]

Of course he's missed more chances than he's scored, as does every single striker in the history of football!

If you think his finishing is off because he's only scored 7 goals in 5 games ao far this season, instead of 15, then thats fine.

Not sure every striker misses more basic chances than they score. Not every striker scores every chance - yes. But suspect last season he scored more than he missed.
And no, I don’t think it’s off because he hasn’t scored 15. I think it’s off, because it’s off - and I’m pretty sure haaland himself, Pep, and the rest of the team would agree.

If you think it isn’t off then I’m not sure what you’ve been watching.

 

[chris85mcfc]

Not sure every striker misses more basic chances than they score. Not every striker scores every chance - yes. But suspect last season he scored more than he missed.
And no, I don’t think it’s off because he hasn’t scored 15. I think it’s off, because it’s off - and I’m pretty sure haaland himself, Pep, and the rest of the team would agree.

If you think it isn’t off then I’m not sure what you’ve been watching.

I've been watching a striker who broke umpteen records last season, on course to break more this season.

Weird take to feel something is off after having scored more goals than games played, but perhaps that's the expectation he's set.

Yes he'll have wanted to score more because that's his nature, but it's unheard of for a striker to score the amount of goals that he does, so not sure how you can view it as a concern.

The basic chances he misses wouldn't even be a sniff for most strikers as they wouldn't have the map that he has in his head of where the ball is going to arrive.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Not sure every striker misses more basic chances than they score. Not every striker scores every chance - yes. But suspect last season he scored more than he missed.
And no, I don’t think it’s off because he hasn’t scored 15. I think it’s off, because it’s off - and I’m pretty sure haaland himself, Pep, and the rest of the team would agree.

If you think it isn’t off then I’m not sure what you’ve been watching.

Håland is a very honest and frank guy. I reckon he would openly admit that he’s been bloody rubbish so far this season.

You can tell by his demeanour what he’s thinking. He was pissed off with himself at SheffUtd. At West Ham, he’d gone well past being pissed off and was just laughing at himself.

I think you’re spot on. ‘Off’ is the right word. His rhythm is just ‘off’. Once he gets it back he’ll be a different beast.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Think his goal threat dropped as soon as KDB got crocked.

Have you watched the games?

 

[Paul1970]

Of course he's missed more chances than he's scored, as does every single striker in the history of football!

If you think his finishing is off because he's only scored 7 goals in 5 games ao far this season, instead of 15, then thats fine.

End of the day he is a brilliant but he is missing absolute sitters and tbh is being upstaged by Julian alvarez who could actually surpass in terms of potential ceiling . We have atm probably 2 of the top strikers in the world I mean how blessed are we .

 

[dancity19]

I've been watching a striker who broke umpteen records last season, on course to break more this season.

Weird take to feel something is off after having scored more goals than games played, but perhaps that's the expectation he's set.

Yes he'll have wanted to score more because that's his nature, but it's unheard of for a striker to score the amount of goals that he does, so not sure how you can view it as a concern.

The basic chances he misses wouldn't even be a sniff for most strikers as they wouldn't have the map that he has in his head of where the ball is going to arrive.

Im not necessarily viewing it as a concern. Not sure I said that.
And it’s not binary, he is obviously brilliant, but I genuinely believe he is currently missing too many chances.
You don’t think his finishing is off. I do. Will agree to disagree.

 

[yankblue]

Feel bad for the first side we play once he finds his finishing boots. He'll put 5 past them. Hopefully this weekend

 

[OB1]

Not sure every striker misses more basic chances than they score. Not every striker scores every chance - yes. But suspect last season he scored more than he missed.
And no, I don’t think it’s off because he hasn’t scored 15. I think it’s off, because it’s off - and I’m pretty sure haaland himself, Pep, and the rest of the team would agree.

If you think it isn’t off then I’m not sure what you’ve been watching.

Go and research conversion rates. Every striker misses far more than they score.

Haaland had easily the best conversion rate in Europe last season but it was still only 30%.

If he can score from 1 in 3 chances, he’ll have another great season. At the moment he is scoring about 1 in 5, based on a small number of games. His last two games have been very detrimental to his conversion rate for this season.