9 | Erling Haaland - 2024/25

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Agree to a degree. His movement ihas deteriorated as has his finishing. He’s missing lots at the minute.
My movement would deteriorate if the ball never came. Yes he's missing the odd chance but it's not like he's missing sitters every game. All strikers go through bad runs, and he's in one now.

The bigger problem is there isn't anyone else in the team chipping in with goals. Stop Haaland and stop City, so he's getting very closely marked every game.
 
Think he actually mishit that chip, and I’ve no idea why he ran to the front post when Doku was inside the box and drilled it across the six-yard box to where he should have been attacking.

Never rated Vlahovic that highly when he was at Fiorentina, but in terms of touch, movement, and bringing players into the game, he’s certainly improved.
 
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.
 
He's scored 29/32 in the worst City side in years our next one is about 3 goals.

We've no midfielders to cope now where's the extra one coming from when you drop him?
Foden and kovacic are back Sunday. I just think we have to try something different. What we are doing is clearly not working. I’d keep him in for the rags but if we lose that then big changes needed.
 
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.
My point is we have the best striker but he’s getting no service. Agree that’s not his fault but then at what point do you do something different? if he isn’t getting service whats the point playing him?
 
Foden and kovacic are back Sunday. I just think we have to try something different. What we are doing is clearly not working. I’d keep him in for the rags but if we lose that then big changes needed.
Foden and Kovacic ain't fit either like half the squad.

Dropping Haaland is the least of our worries.
 
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.
Was a poor effort. Either side its in the net.
 
My movement would deteriorate if the ball never came. Yes he's missing the odd chance but it's not like he's missing sitters every game. All strikers go through bad runs, and he's in one now.

The bigger problem is there isn't anyone else in the team chipping in with goals. Stop Haaland and stop City, so he's getting very closely marked every game.
Yes it’s systemic. I mentioned before it must be soul destroying watching the ball get recycled over and over and over. So he’s playing against a set back 6.

Pep isn’t changing anything though. So what’s the point?
 
My point is we have the best striker but he’s getting no service. Agree that’s not his fault but then at what point do you do something different? if he isn’t getting service whats the point playing him?
The something different that you do is you start supplying him, you dont remove the best player.

Who exactly is going to score us a goal if not Haaland?

Was a poor effort. Either side its in the net.

Did you not see the sprawling keeper at his feet as soon as he got on the end of it? The only way that was going in was by lifting he, it was just excellent goalkeeping.
 
Was a poor effort. Either side its in the net.
All strikers miss chances. His goalscoring record is phenomenal. It's not his fault he's the only one in the team who can hit a cow's arse with a banjo.

Perhaps we should throw the net a little wider and ask why nobody else is capable of getting a few goals? And why we are in a position where we are reliant on one player for goals because that's not sustainable.
 
Do people actually believe someone else in this team is going to get us goals if he's on the bench.
He's definitely done his part but I think our current situation means we need to change things. Genuinely would consider dropping him and putting an extra midfielder in the team.
 
Started the season like a house on fire but has been virtually anonymous since, bar a couple of games.

Think it's a mix of him being overplayed and also him reacting badly to being overplayed, like not running as much, barely contributing to the press or the build-up, not making the right moves when the ball is cut back to him.

For City this season he's played in 22 games and has scored in 11 of them. Not a bad record at all, but in previous seasons he'd contribute a couple of assists to make up the difference in games he draws a blank in.

In the 11 games he's not scored in this season, he's made one assist - and that was a pass to Doku 50 yards from goal.

Really needs to be supported by the club in January. Even if it means buying an extra midfielder so that Gundogan or De Bruyne can play false nine whenever Haaland's rested/injured, because he can't carry on like this.
 
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