9 | Erling Haaland - 2025/26

So explain why he scores more goals than literally anyone else if his movement is questionable?
Simple. His movement is elite when he’s well rested. Therefore he scores loads in the early season. We’re in the December to February slump that he goes through yearly.
 
Haaland is no doubt a brilliant striker but his technique is pretty average. He often doesn’t hit a ball cleanly and he misses chances like the one at Sunderland because of this imo
 
When he’s bad he’s really bad.

And if he’s not getting the space or the service in the box, he doesn’t have the ability to smash one in the top corner from 25 yards or dribble it past three and slot it just inside the post like Agüero used to be able to do on both counts out of nothing.
 
These 2 things are not related. He could have scored loads more if his movement was more clever in the box, that's how good he is. he's a freak of nature.
His movement is as clever as any striker in the history of the game. He is continually positioned where he is most likely to get a good chance to score.

His record is accordingly freakish.
 
His movement is as clever as any striker in the history of the game. He is continually positioned where he is most likely to get a good chance to score.

His record is accordingly freakish.

His movement in the box is poor
He relies on the ball finding him rather than a burst to the front post , a la aguero, for example.
Its fine, mostly, as you say is record is freakish so he has plenty of credit in the bank.
But i often wonder if his record would go into the utterly absurd if he didnt hang back so much, waiting, as is his way
 
His movement in the box is poor
He relies on the ball finding him rather than a burst to the front post , a la aguero, for example.
Its fine, mostly, as you say is record is freakish so he has plenty of credit in the bank.
But i often wonder if his record would go into the utterly absurd if he didnt hang back so much, waiting, as is his way
This is a crazy take. He positions himself in the place where he's most likely to get a chance. That obviously doesn't involve launching himself at the front post.
 

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