I think his second goal yesterday (the one which he slid in) is a good example of the type of goal he gets, which is too easily dismissed as a "tap in". In the replay you see that Varane is looking over his shoulder several times and basically taking up the right position. Then you get a perfect cross from De Bruyne out of reach for Varane, and Haaland is able to get to it as a result of his extremely long reach, sense for those situations and burst of speed. I don't think there is any other striker in the world who would have scored from that cross. It would be one of those situations you see several times during a match, where the attacker is just a mili second too late to get on the end of a cross. Haaland gets to those balls.
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ffs i can't tell at this point if you're being serious or into some advanced parody.
Totally serious and knew I would feel like this
My take on this goal as well. I don't see many players actually reaching that ball, let alone hammer it in at the end.
No.
I was just pointing out that they weren't as varied as many like to think. More varied than Haaland for sure, but he also prioritized to take a lot more low xG shots than what Haaland is doing. Doesn't mean Haaland can't score screamers though.
If so...
This has to be a decent candidate for the meme thread
Can't help feeling sick at him so really not the least bit bothered about being mocked
Ah, not meaning to mock mate, just messing around. I know what you mean, it's not exactly pleasant watching him tear it up.
Minutes per PL goal:
Haaland 47
Martial 38
Minutes per PL goal/assist:
Haaland 39
Martial 25
One is statpadding against the worst defences and scoring while opposition defenders are receiving treatment on the sidelines, the other is doing it against City, Liverpool etc.
Haaland 47
Martial 38
Minutes per PL goal/assist:
Haaland 39
Martial 25
One is statpadding against the worst defences and scoring while opposition defenders are receiving treatment on the sidelines, the other is doing it against City, Liverpool etc.
Yeah and knowing we could have stopped it in first place whether at Molde or actually not thinking we are too good for release clause at Dortmund.
Talk about scraping that barrel
KDB unfortunately really is the best playmaker on the planet atm.
Yeah really deal of the century for us. Whoever in our board who was convinced that Ronaldo is ageless needs to be shown the door. I think Haaland was never coming here anyway tbh.
We haven't played etc. yet, but he can only do better after facing the first 2, right?
On a serious note. We look much better with Martial up top, let's just hope he managed to stay fit now.
He definitely could have been if Utd listened to Ole at Molde or didn't care about release clauses at Dortmund.
They booed Benzema too. Real Madrid fan talking about attitude towards players. Laughable stuff
I wish if i can think like you. But....i can't. That decision haunts me every weekend now
This game of "we shoulda" gets silly
Why didn't any other club pick him up?
Why didn't any other club pick him up?
It's hard to know what kind of a player he would be now if he went here from Molde though. Somehow I doubt Mourinho and Ole would give him the same amount of minutes he got in Austria and Germany. I think Haaland and his team has managed his career to perfection for his development so far to be fair. Story would probably be very different if he came here at 18.
Still hurts that we didn't get him from Salzburg though.
That summer we were no1 favorites for signing him. It was basically done deal. Where were other clubs? I don't know. But i do know that he was inches to sign with us until we decided to refuse release clause in contract.
That’s actually a limitation for me. He’s not actually that great on the ball. Very awkward and not the best dribbler. In fact, you would rather Haaland has the ball to feet and run with it than him making runs in behind without the ball.
Also, despite his size and presence heading isn’t a strength of his. He’ll score a few headers but he’s not got the best leap or heading ability.
Everything else he’s pretty amazing at.
Of course Ronaldo has a higher variety. Free kicks, dribbles, wide then in, as a CF himself, left foot, outside the box. Any angle, any distance. That’s not even touching the technical differences in first touch and quality on the ball etc.
Even arguing against that is madness. All those stars are telling us is where they’re shot from, not how they got there. They’re meaningless.
He’s up there with Lewandowski with his skill set but no where near Messi or Ronaldo
Stop spamming my notifications. He hasn't done shit yet. Any decent striker (including Nunez) would feast in that team. Give Alvarez more gametime and he would score tons of goals too.
If Haaland shows up in the CL knockouts and helps them win the whole thing, I'll give him some credit.
If Haaland shows up in the CL knockouts and helps them win the whole thing, I'll give him some credit.
Utterly kills we didn't get him from Salzburg or Dortmund, Jose should have seen Drogba like potential but didn't sadly
Yeah horrendous decision we refused that and someone has to be held fully accountable
He hasn't done shit alright...
You made 2 mistakes:
1- Lumping prime Messi and prime Ronaldo in one conversation as if they're equal when they're not. Messi was simply a much better scorer at his peak. His goals/90 mins dwarfed Ronaldo's.
2- Claiming that Haaland isn't as good a scorer as Ronaldo when - again - the numbers indicate that he had a better scoring average than any version of Ronaldo. As a result of having that pointed out to you, you're digressing, discussing "variety of goals".
Nice observation, agree fully.
Uhmmm... Have you seen Lewandowski play football? Serious question.
Haaland is closer to Lukaku than to Lewandowski. Lewandowski is way too technical, has way too much finesse to his play, and is able to do way too much outside of a penalty area to be compared to Haaland.
I'm not saying that Haaland *needs* all of that - he can just brute force his way to the goal after all. But the comparison is really off.
In response to the now closed "Where does Haaland rank among Norway's all-time greatest footballers", I would say he still has a fair bit of work to do to catch up to the great Gunnar Nordahl.
But as I just realised mere moments ago; Nordahl was Swedish. So it's probably not something he has to worry about.
But as I just realised mere moments ago; Nordahl was Swedish. So it's probably not something he has to worry about.
Haaland is just a proacher, an extremely good one with pace, acceleration, off the ball movement, strength and physique, but he doesn't have the technique like Lewandowski.
I think he has a way to go before he surpasses Håvard Flo to be honest.
If only goals from a distance counted double
People have all sorts of weird hang-ups. The aim of football is pretty simple, score more than your opponent and you win.And then he still got Jostein Flo and Tore Andre Flo to worry about
Are you sure that's correct ... look at how Rashford, Martial, McTominay, etc. have all developed. Look at United's youth from a couple of years ago.Don't be stupid
We're talking about a player who has more goals than games over the last 4-5 seasons. He would score goals for anyone.
Jeered for not scoring ... not for not pressing.
He's started like a house on fire, but the completely over-the-top bonkers rhetoric is insane: Sky Sports projecting he could score 102 goals this season if he keeps his current scoring rate up. Some 'journalists' on the BBC saying he'll break Shearer's record, others saying he's Ronaldo and Zlatan in one. He's finished a few chances, scored mostly tap-ins and scored the odd acrobatic effort.
If he's anywhere near this level come the middle to end of the season then I'll get on the hype train but the premature ejaculation over him is ridiculous. Let's see how he deals with the volume of games and in the latter stages of the CL. Even posters on here comparing him to Ronaldo deary me.
If he's anywhere near this level come the middle to end of the season then I'll get on the hype train but the premature ejaculation over him is ridiculous. Let's see how he deals with the volume of games and in the latter stages of the CL. Even posters on here comparing him to Ronaldo
deary me.I think the no-brainers to get into a world XI at the moment are probably KDB, Kimmich and Cancelo. You could argue about the other spots (Haaland, Mbappe, Lewandowski, Messi, Neymar, Vinicius, Salah even with his recent dip) in attack and the 3rd midfielder (Modric's passing was incredible against Atletico but maybe you'd want a more physical presence with Kimmich and KDB) and with Van Dijk looking a bit average lately I'm not sure there's an obvious choice there. Maybe Allison in net but Maignan and others would be acceptable picks.
But I'm not sure what 2 fullbacks get in over Cancelo, how you keep De Bruyne out, unless I guess you prefer Modric and 2 more defensive mids over the end product of De Bruyne which I think is probably less crazy that how it sounds considering how still great Modric is for at least 60 minutes, or who you'd pick over Kimmich, though I guess you could pick say Rodri and 2 #8s and leave Kimmich out.
So maybe Cancelo is the best player in the world relative to his position?
Did you stop reading at the second line?
He's started like a house on fire, but the completely over-the-top bonkers rhetoric is insane: Sky Sports projecting he could score 102 goals this season if he keeps his current scoring rate up. Some 'journalists' on the BBC saying he'll break Shearer's record, others saying he's Ronaldo and Zlatan in one. He's finished a few chances, scored mostly tap-ins and scored the odd acrobatic effort.
If he's anywhere near this level come the middle to end of the season then I'll get on the hype train but the premature ejaculation over him is ridiculous. Let's see how he deals with the volume of games and in the latter stages of the CL. Even posters on here comparing him to Ronaldo
17 goals in 11 games with 3 hatricks is worthy of ejaculation and it isn’t premature. Of course whether he keeps it up remains to be seen but so far nothing about the hype has been unworthy. He’s just been that unbelievable.