9 | Erling Haaland - 2024/25

[samuelyeboah]

No **** in our team can cross the ball apart from Kev. So how about trying to find him with a normal pass, so he can do something with it.

Slow floated crosses to the first man or fucking 18ft in the air to the back post, what can Haaland do with that?

Nonsense, there is no "cross" you can put in that would generate a chance when the striker is this stationary. just from a physics standpoint, there is no path a football can travel that would reach him unless he does SOMETHING. unless he makes space, unless he creates separation, unless he picks a semi decent position. he's actively picking the worst position possible in the box. you're asking for the impossible.

 

[decmancity]

Nonsense, there is no "cross" you can put in that would generate a chance when the striker is this stationary. just from a physics standpoint, there is no path a football can travel that would reach him unless he does SOMETHING. unless he makes space, unless he creates separation, unless he picks a semi decent position. he's actively picking the worst position possible in the box. you're asking for the impossible.

Bollocks, im sorry. The crosses are fucking shite, end of. They don't even give anyone on the end of it a chance.

 

[Damien10]

Smiling and laughing. No wonder why he’s been shit.

Try getting angry, get hungry. Then the goals would come I have no doubt.

Right now, he’s to soft!

 

[samuelyeboah]

Bollocks, im sorry. The crosses are fucking shite, end of. They don't even give anyone on the end of it a chance.

Of course they don't, because the bloke in the end of it is not in a position to take advantage of any cross! You can't just say the crosses need to find the striker, the striker needs to put himself in a position to receive a cross. Take gakpo's goal. If he does an impression of haaland today, that delightful salah cross goes to a goal kick. But Gakpo makes movement!

 

[Paul1970]

Erling has scored a few goals this his season and yes without his goals we would be in an even worse position but atm he is playing crap and is looking half arsed .

 

[Sibierskii]

What the fuck is he laughing at? Body language reeks.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Erling has scored a few goals this his season and yes without his goals we would be in an even worse position but atm he is playing crap and is looking half arsed .

I think he’s given up on moving bevause no one finds him, he never seems to be in his toes, all the balls have to go to the back stick, whereas with Aguero he would nip in at the front post and steal it or peel off to the back far more mobile. If no one can get the ball to him but KDB we’ve got serious problems, I know he’s broke loads of records but he needs to do more for the team, move about more in the box etc. like you say without his goals we would be fucked but you defend from the front and he doesn’t do a lot.

 

[Bluewonder]

We could have prime messi whipping in balls into the box and it wouldn't matter. The greatest winger of all time couldn't possibly find this lad in the box, he is INVISIBLE. It's impossible to get the ball to him. He purposely hides behind defenders, he makes zero movement, and when a cross does comes in he does fuck all to challenge for it. bemoan the deliveries all you want, I feel bad for our wingers, they got nothing to deliver to. This lad actively makes it impossible for them to find him. It doesn't matter if you're 7 feet tall if you are always nowhere to be found when it's time to put a ball in. I have never seen someone with such a dominant stature impose themselves less in the box.

Put yourself in the shoes of doku or nunes or savio, how on earth are you meant to get the ball to him when all he does is stand in the far post behind 2 defenders, making zero effort to free himself, doesn't try to pull infront of them, and even when the ball does come in his direction, barely puts in any effort to duel for it. What could you possibly do? Where could you possibly aim for? genuinely seems like a huge frustration to play towards as a winger.

Pretty fucking weird he scores a goal a game then, isn't it, you daft rag dickhead.

 

[Paul1970]

Pretty fucking weird he scores a goal a game then, isn't it, you daft rag dickhead.

Why is he a rag ? Just because he criticises someone that a lot on here think is fucking god hen suddenly he’s a rag . This forum is about opinions about the club we love but god help anyone who criticises erling Haaland .

 

[Mr HJ]

It's got to get him annoyed that after making so many runs when not one of our "midfielders/wingers" pass to him he has reached the point where his movement has slowed down. I have zero doubts that once we get either Kev back and firing or a new signing in January he will start being more effective. Today he had nothing to go for and that is a collective failure. To not use your greatest asset to its best is mind blowing to me - instead we see Gundo and Phil both not even looking to pass it to him when in good positions.

He is not the problem, it is we are a team that cannot switch to new tactics as their collective minds are frazzled.