9 | Erling Haaland - 2024/25

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super_city_si said:
Not scoring though. We need a midfield. Pack it out until we get numbers back or keep losing?
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He’s not playing well and to be honest he’ll never be a great actual footballer. Don’t see how dropping an unbelievable goalscorer from a side struggling to score goals will help. We play slow with him and go round in circles. Without him we’d be worse for that but teams could pin us back completely knowing there is no threat of anyone running in behind.
 
ninjamonkey said:
The mind continues to boggle at some of these comments. What do people want him to do? He's getting zero service, 1 chance he had tonight, 1 chance In 90 minutes of dominance.

He did nothing wrong with that chance, it was just a fantastic save. Look at vlahovic on the other side, barely had a sniff first half like Haaland, because he wasnt getting amy supply. second half tthy decided it might be a good idea to at least give him something to aattackonce in a while and he goes and scores, if we bothered to supply him, he'd score, we don't so he can't.
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Him missing a chance isn’t a big concern, it happens. Be good if he could actually hold the ball up at times though and give us a genuine presence whilst the rest of the team is struggling so badly
 
Don't think he looks arsed, and you can say about the service but he gets multiple big chances every game and has multiple instances if dangerous balls he just doesn't interpret

Looks like he's hiding away
 
citytill1die84 said:
That's for Pep and the club to come up with.
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Logically though how are we supposed to do it? He thrives off running on to through balls but there is such limited space the way teams set up against us. So a run from the half way line happens once in a blue moon. The through ball has to be perfect against such compact teams but he’s got one of the best in the world at it in KDB. Twice he’s had said passes from him in the last 2 games but the keeper has saved his shots.

Aside from that i don’t see what we change for him. More crosses in? Great header last week against Palace but generally he’s not particularly good in the air. Play it into his feet more? Every time we did that last night it just bloody bounced off him as his hold up play is average at best.
 
Pep needs to sharpen up tactically. What we’re doing isn’t working. We’re blunt and Foden’s goals last year dragged us over the line.

We need to make use of Haaland a lot more than we are. He’s essentially a decoy in this system and you can tell he can’t be arsed with it.

That’s a slant on him as well - body language tends to be gash - but mostly on Pep. He’s gone from being unplayable and feared by every defence to being easy to play against.

I keep going back to it but Ben fucking Davies pocketed him. At home. He needs to offer more.
 
Needs time on the bench but will never happen. Style doesn’t suite him & we don’t even look to use him. It’s mental

Playing with a man down every game
 
wolviedinho said:
Not doing enough by far.

Time he stepped up and started to make things happen.
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That’s never going to be who he is.

He is an old school big lad up top type striker, he’s never going to drop back.

That’s fine if your midfield are on fire, I.e when Kev is up for it but otherwise he’s on his own doing fuck all feeding off scraps.

Aguero was a false 9 compared to big Earl.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
That’s never going to be who he is.

He is an old school big lad up top type striker, he’s never going to drop back.

That’s fine if your midfield are on fire, I.e when Kev is up for it but otherwise he’s on his own doing fuck all feeding off scraps.

Aguero was a false 9 compared to big Earl.
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He should be coming deep when it’s clear the team is struggling to attack. Hold up the ball and link in the wingers.

More runs needed to the near post aswell. We very rarely get the ball deep to him so it’s pointless.

A goal poacher who is not getting any attempts at goal is not much use to us in this situation.

Maybe we should go false 9 again.
 
Hes literally stood there watching the fucking car crash behind him. Midfielders going sideways and backwards, I don't think I even saw Gundogan lift his head up once when he had the ball.
 
wolviedinho said:
He should be coming deep when it’s clear the team is struggling to attack. Hold up the ball and link in the wingers.

More runs needed to the near post aswell. We very rarely get the ball deep to him so it’s pointless.

A goal poacher who is not getting any attempts at goal is not much use to us in this situation.

Maybe we should go false 9 again.
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With who? A perma-crocked Kev, Gundogan in his zimmerframe or a mysteriously totally absent Foden?
 
It’s been mentioned on here but Aguero played in some poor city teams (14/15) for example but still dragged city through games. Erling doesn’t do that. He should be the guy who scores us a goal when we’re not playing well and get us through tough moments. Currently he’s scoring goals mainly in games when we’re playing well and dominating.
 
Damocles said:
The team is literally built around him. We need to unbuild the team from around him.
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nope it is not true currently team was built around Kev.

If you watched anything he played before he joined City then you see the team did not build around him. He needs pacy fullbacks who can cross. The exact opposite of what we have now.
 
Blu3m00n91 said:
It’s been mentioned on here but Aguero played in some poor city teams (14/15) for example but still dragged city through games. Erling doesn’t do that. He should be the guy who scores us a goal when we’re not playing well and get us through tough moments. Currently he’s scoring goals mainly in games when we’re playing well and dominating.
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True but that’s because as an actual footballer he’s not in the same class as Aguero
 
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