9 | Erling Haaland - 2025/26

madloaf said:
He was poor today, there's no two ways about it. The team is struggling, and without cherki on the pitch I do wonder if he's back to thinking, when will I get a through ball again! He defended with energy and occasionally held the ball up well. I'll forgive you the I'll tempered comment, happens to us all.
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And I’ll forgive you for thinking I was asking for forgiveness! ;)
 
I'm probably going to get pelters for this, but I'm not arsed.

I said this to my mate, who's a Leeds fan, that this was the second time I've watched Haaland not play as he should against Leeds and he sent me this:

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Haaland saluting the Leeds fans who sang his name.

I don't hate on it, he was born there and has ties to his home city.

For me, I'd rather not select him to play Leeds in the future.
 
Pretty sure he usually starts the season on fire then slumps around now. There is a clear pattern emerging in that regard
 
Bigga said:
I'm probably going to get pelters for this, but I'm not arsed.

I said this to my mate, who's a Leeds fan, that this was the second time I've watched Haaland not play as he should against Leeds and he sent me this:

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Haaland saluting the Leeds fans who sang his name.

I don't hate on it, he was born there and has ties to his home city.

For me, I'd rather not select him to play Leeds in the future.
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Remember him looking gutted when he scored twice at their place in 22/23 haha.

Missed a few sitters in the home game too from memory.

Don’t think there’s much to it, though, as we’ve seen him have games like today before masked by a goal or two.
 
TFC said:
Seems like he's letting the weight of the 100 hold him down at the moment. Decent hold up play, but definitely lackluster in front of goal. Sooner he gets the ton the better
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I think, outside of this being Leeds, Haaland knows what kind of game it's going to be when certain players are not on the pitch.

He seems to come to life more when Cherki plays, for me, as he did when de Bruyne was here.
 
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No good today. Thought he'd gotten over this tendency he has to start every season like a house on fire and then have a sudden dip. Seems to do it every year and he's got to cut it out.

Every fucking run is to the back post. Mix it up! Him just standing there when Doku put that one in across the six-yard box on 75 mins, standing there while the Leeds defender nearly put it in his own net. Attack the ball, mate!

Look here. What chance has Doku got of finding Haaland in this scenario when Haaland's first instinct is to vanish behind five fucking defenders? And then not even attack a loose ball six yards out? The mind boggles sometimes.

He barely reacts to what's happening in front of him here ffs.

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youngbob said:
No good today. Thought he'd gotten over this tendency he has to start every season like a house on fire and then have a sudden dip. Seems to do it every year and he's got to cut it out.

Every fucking run is to the back post. Mix it up! Him just standing there when Doku put that one in across the six-yard box on 75 mins, standing there while the Leeds defender nearly put it in his own net. Attack the ball, mate!

Look here. What chance has Doku got of finding Haaland in this scenario when Haaland's first instinct is to vanish behind five fucking defenders? And then not even attack a loose ball six yards out? The mind boggles sometimes.

He barely reacts to what's happening in front of him here ffs.

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It’s been like that very often yet Dolu gets criticized. Whenever he doesn’t score it’s the teams fault for not giving him valls. If he scores we are being carried . Make it sense!
 
He seemed happy when we scored, but to me it looked like he didn't want to be there today, especially second half.
I would've taken him off and put Marmoush on early second half, he looked that poor.
 
He’s probably fucked off about the way we either throw games away or try and throw them away compared to when he came!
 
youngbob said:
No good today. Thought he'd gotten over this tendency he has to start every season like a house on fire and then have a sudden dip. Seems to do it every year and he's got to cut it out.

Every fucking run is to the back post. Mix it up! Him just standing there when Doku put that one in across the six-yard box on 75 mins, standing there while the Leeds defender nearly put it in his own net. Attack the ball, mate!

Look here. What chance has Doku got of finding Haaland in this scenario when Haaland's first instinct is to vanish behind five fucking defenders? And then not even attack a loose ball six yards out? The mind boggles sometimes.

He barely reacts to what's happening in front of him here ffs.

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came on to see if anyone had picked up this, he didn't gamble, didnt follow up, by his standards this little passage was poor.
 
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