9 | Erling Haaland - 2024/25

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Worlds greatest disappearing act. A heat seaking missile couldn't find him in the box. Needed at the near post? Houdini erling will make sure to be as far as possible. And no need to fear he'll ever make an effort break away from a defender to accidentally be at the end of a cross
 
Worlds greatest disappearing act. A heat seaking missile couldn't find him in the box. Needed at the near post? Houdini erling will make sure to be as far as possible. And no need to fear he'll ever make an effort break away from a defender to accidentally be at the end of a cross
How can you blame Haaland for today really? Maybe Bernardo Silva and Co should cross to where he's actually stood? We've got Bernardo putting crosses in on his week foot from the right wing but your blaming Haaland? Doku crossing on his left foot also. The tactics are wrong!
 
Worlds greatest disappearing act. A heat seaking missile couldn't find him in the box. Needed at the near post? Houdini erling will make sure to be as far as possible. And no need to fear he'll ever make an effort break away from a defender to accidentally be at the end of a cross

Yeah why didn't he get on the end of those countless crosses and through balls the team made today.
 
How can you blame Haaland for today really? Maybe Bernardo Silva and Co should cross to where he's actually stood? We've got Bernardo putting crosses in on his week foot from the right wing but your blaming Haaland? Doku crossing on his left foot also. The tactics are wrong!
Right, never his fault. The delivery is always the problem. It's never that he makes no effort, it's never that his positioning in the box is genuinely abysmal, it's never that he makes himself basically impossible to find. It's always someone else's fault.
 
How can you blame Haaland for today really? Maybe Bernardo Silva and Co should cross to where he's actually stood? We've got Bernardo putting crosses in on his week foot from the right wing but your blaming Haaland? Doku crossing on his left foot also. The tactics are wrong!
He didint do anything today ,no way you can defend the way he played today. He needs to find a way to be dangerous against these kind of teams if he dont have space to get behind.
 
How can you blame Haaland for today really? Maybe Bernardo Silva and Co should cross to where he's actually stood? We've got Bernardo putting crosses in on his week foot from the right wing but your blaming Haaland? Doku crossing on his left foot also. The tactics are wrong!
I've never seen a world class striker get so much slack. It's baffling. He's one of the highest paid players in the world. We're playing with ten men with him and Pep's ball are so high up in his stomach that he refuses to hurt Haaland's ego and drag him off. His work rate and body language were a disgrace. The times he did get the service opportunity, he was standing on his heels.
 
Right, never his fault. The delivery is always the problem. It's never that he makes no effort, it's never that his positioning in the box is genuinely abysmal, it's never that he makes himself basically impossible to find. It's always someone else's fault.
If he made himself impossible to find he wouldn't have scored all the goals he has. I seen 3 times today where he could have scored but the pass into the box hit the first man.
 
He didint do anything today ,no way you can defend the way he played today. He needs to find a way to be dangerous against these kind of teams if he dont have space to get behind.

He can be, when we play long balls into him quickly, it's a different approach. We just don't do it. The few times we did it this season, it was effective.
 
He can be, when we play long balls into him quickly, it's a different approach. We just don't do it. The few times we did it this season, it was effective.
Then he shouldn't be on the pitch, because Forest played with 11 behind the ball all match, but as I said previously, that's on Pep not wanting to hurt Erling's ego as indeed he saw as we did that he was utterly useless.
 
He can be, when we play long balls into him quickly, it's a different approach. We just don't do it. The few times we did it this season, it was effective.
few times we did it today ,it was not effective and he couldnt control the ball and lost all the 50-50 balls. Forest did very well to contain him like many teams have done it this season. Just needs to find a way to be effective even without scoring.
 
Then he shouldn't be on the pitch, because Forest played with 11 behind the ball all match, but as I said previously, that's on Pep not wanting to hurt Erling's ego as indeed he saw as we did that he was utterly useless.

They play with 11 behind the ball because we move up the pitch so slowly.

The few games we actually pinged the ball quickly into Haaland this season, even bypassing the midfield, teams couldn't get 11 behind the ball.

People complain about teams parking the bus but it's bollocks. They can set themselves defensively because we let them because we take ages to get up the pitch.
 
If he made himself impossible to find he wouldn't have scored all the goals he has. I seen 3 times today where he could have scored but the pass into the box hit the first
no he scores these goals because he's an unreal striker, fantastic physicality and pace and a once in a lifetime finisher. And yet he scores them DESPITE having extremely bad positioning in the box and being very very lazy
 
He didn't get any service today. He also doesn't seem to be able to create any chances by himself.
Some of our crossing and passing was very poor today. However, four times, he was stood still, picking his Y-fronts out of his arse crack thinking about what he’s having for tea, while a decent ball was played to the near post.
 
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Wish he’d come to the near post more often.

And one thing he needs to improve is his first time finishing when the ball is crossed low. He completely missed the ball in the first half from a Savinho cross which wasn’t at all hammered in.
 
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