9 | Erling Haaland - 2023/24

[nellyonthewing]

He's playing like the Elephant in the Room at the moment.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Apart from a couple of run-of-the-mill touches and lay-offs… nothing again.

 

[handsofstone]

Looks exhausted, is so flat footed and he's getting bullied week in week out

Hes had ample chances, let's not act like he doesn't get any service

What does he offer if he doesn't score?

His overall play is so weak and so unbothered at the moment

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

What does he offer if he doesn't score?

Some pretty good lay-offs, and hold-up play, to be absolutely fair. I'm afraid I expect a bit more than that from him.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Press the shitout of their gk who was struggling like Alvarez did couple of times, not get bullied by defenders

I don't think he needs to be pressing the shit out of their keeper constantly, thats school yard stuff and detrimental to the entire press and leaves easy get outs everywhere. his role in the press is often to drop when the keeper has it and then when we do press, to cut off the ball back to the keeper once hes released it. I do agree though that his pressing can be better in general, just not aimlessly chasing down keepers.

Don't think he got bullied by anybody. The very few times we played it into him he did okay, won a few, lost a few.

 

[handsofstone]

Some pretty good lay-offs, and hold-up play, to be absolutely fair. I'm afraid I expect a bit more than that from him.

Hes supposed to be up to the Balon D'Or and is supposed to be the centre forward that will dominate the next decade

He needs to be doing more than a few lay odds and some ok (but not great) hold up play

Still easy to forget he's so young but he just isn't doing enough of the other stuff on a consistent basis

 

[Craig]

Teams adapt and learn. We will see if we are still as effective later on in the season.

id love to see him score a goal out of nothing like aguero did numerous times. Don’t think haaland has scored one outside the box yet for us!

Wolves away but was a scuffed shot with his swinger

 

[Craig]

Kane ? good that decision was never made else for sure treble would not have happened and we may have had a much better opponent. Spuds doing so well without him says everything.

So it’s down to Kane that they had 2 of the most negative mangers going for the last few years? Spurs have a manager playing attacking football and are a breath of fresh to the dross they played under Conte and Mourinho. They’ve rode their luck a lot though and will still win fuck all.

Despite them being complete shite Kane managed 30 league goals with less pens than Haaland.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

Why are people asking stuff from him that’s not his game? It’s on city and pep to use his strengths not try and shoe horn him into a different style. He battered those arsenal defenders last season with his power and pace and we utilised that by playing direct. Today everything was slow paced , ball too feet. Now that’s fine but don’t get annoyed at Haaland for not getting involved when it’s not his game.

 

[dancity19]

Care to give even one example of an instance where he could have done that?

Well isn’t that kind of the point of creating a chance for yourself. It’s not immediately visible as, well you know, you create it for yourself…..