Like it was for Owen.
If Haaland tears his hamstrings he'll have to totally reinvent himself. He has the size and strength to play a different role though whereas Owen was a midget.
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Like it was for Owen.
If Haaland tears his hamstrings he'll have to totally reinvent himself. He has the size and strength to play a different role though whereas Owen was a midget.
While he definitely has the physique to be a target man I don't think he can ever be that type to hold the ball up and bring others into play as his primary strength. He can improve his hold up play but I don't see him reinventing himself turning into a more goalscoring version of Mandzukic or Giroud suddenly.
Also, he's naturally pretty weak at heading which is another stumbling block for reinventing himself in that way.
I would say the problem is that because hes reliant on his physical side of things, the team becomes more focused on him and if he gets stopped, the team might struggle more to score than previously.
Aye, this I can agree on.
Different than say Lewa at Barca and his previous teams, when while being the focal point of the attack,
he wouldn't normally put the other attackers in his shadow.
with Haaland this might not be the case; too early to tell. I'd trust someone like Pep to find solutions for this.
He has the players at his disposal surely.
Hope he fails miserably doing that, mind you. the bald prick.
weird how I dislike him while City as a team and club hardly ever elicit any emotions from me.
Crazy thing is that he didn't really have a quiet game either. He was more involved than usual and was mostly let down by a couple of not his best finishes from great positions where he usually scores (1 open header and 1 shot where Alisson made a decent save). He did have 6 shots and 4 on target after all so it's not like he spent the evening in Gomez' and VVD's pockets. I guess we'll see the same reactionary stuff in here every time he scores and every time he doesn't.
Yeah that's usually the football forum.
You can see how wish washy the fan base is with the player performances thread. One week the said player has turned the corner, a new leaf the very next week they need to be sold. It's ridiculous.
He is 22, and probably played the highest level of football game in his career. That’s all analytics needed.What was Salah's impact on that game besides his goal (gifted to him by a total brainfart from Cancelo)? Feel free to elaborate this stark difference in impact on this game besides the obvious goal scored.
He had half the shots, fewer touches, fewer passes, fewer chances created, more successful pressings etc. and that despite having perfect "Salah working conditions" against City's high line, while Liverpool parked their bus on the 18 yard line.
I would expect nothing less.
A bit of a weird statement, considering that Salah was the main outlet for Liverpool attacks, forced a world-class save from Ederson and had a few other good chances throughout the game.
I am a firm believer that Haaland is an absolute monster of a player but to say that yesterday Salah wasn't more impactful is, at best, weird. Looks more like a biased opinion though, to be honest.
I was simply asking the other poster, who claimed Salah's impact "in a game of this calibre" stands in stark contrast to Haaland's, if he could explain how he impacted the game apart from the goal. He scored a nice goal gifted to him by Cancelo and had a couple of good chances, but aside from that he had a quite anonymous performance. Haaland should probably have scored at least one himself, but his finishing wasn't as sharp as usual. Other than that he was more involved and had more chances than Salah. Yes, he scored the only goal in this match, so in that way his impact in that game stood in stark contrast to all the other 21 players on the pitch. When talking abouts games like this in general, Haaland literally scored 3 and assisted 2 against us 2 weeks ago.
If goals are the measurestick:
If we compare Salah's and Haaland's numbers against top teams, guess who scores more/has the biggest impact?
Salah against Spanish, Italian and German teams + PSG in the CL: 13 goals and 5 assists in 37 matches - 0,35 G/game and 0,49 G+A/game
Salah against the other top 6 teams in England: 42 goals and 14 assists in 77 matches - 0,55 G/game and 0,73 G+A/game
Total: 55 goals and 19 assists in 114 matches: 0,48 G/game and 0,65 G+A/game
Haaland against Spanish, Italian, German and English teams + PSG in the CL: 14 goals and 3 assists in 13 matches - 1,08 G/game and 1,31 G+A/game
Haaland against the other top 6 teams in England and top 4 in Germany: 25 goals and 5 assists in 23 matches - 1,09 G/game and 1,30 G+A/game
Total: 39 goals and 8 assists in 36 matches: 1,09 G/game and 1,31 G+A/game.
I don't think you have to be very biased to claim Salah's impact in big games in general isn't much bigger than Haaland's.
Just out of curiosity, who do you consider to be "top 4" in Germany?
First Norwegian ever to make BO top 10.
Werder Bremen’s Rune Bratseth had Norway’s best performance with a 15th place in 1993.
Werder Bremen’s Rune Bratseth had Norway’s best performance with a 15th place in 1993.
Loads of fantastic players are very lucky the internet weren't around to scrutinise every game they ever played. To be a great player in the twitter generation you are judged on the last game you played
Funnily enough, they are both childhood City fans
Insane he's beaten by Vinicius. A joke really.
From recent years: Bayern, Dortmund, Leipzig and Leverkusen
Ok, makes sense, however it doesn't feel like Leverkusen truly belong to a fixed top group. It's more like a top three and then some random team getting the fourth CL spot (it was Leverkusen twice in the last six seasons, Hoffenheim twice as well, once Gladbach and Wolfsburg. Leverkusen just doesn't feel any special in that regard to me)
He was OK yesterday, no worse than our other attackers, he needs to bury that header he missed 1st half in big games though.
It was a relative sitter and would have put us 1 up.
It was a relative sitter and would have put us 1 up.
It's always subjective, but I don't think it's insane or a joke, given how consistently good & decisive Vinicius was in a great Real season. (And that's not taking anything away from how good Haaland was last season.)
I've seen this repeated a thousand times, but he's actually a Leeds fan.
He supported both throughout his childhood
Not a sitter at all imo, very difficult to both generate power and try and place it away from a very good goalkeeper at the same time.
Imo, he really should have put his foot through the ball in the attack where he tried to slide Foden through instead.
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You have a good point. For Haaland’s numbers it doesn’t matter much though:
Against Bayern, Leipzig and Dortmund:
12 goals and 1 assist in 12 games (999 minutes)
Against Leverkusen, Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg and Gladbach:
16 goals and 4 assists in 18 games (1447 minutes)
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Don’t get me wrong I’m not cheapening his goals. I’m just curious what the number is and what in theory it takes to replicate his productivity. There isn’t another Haaland out there so I’m wondering how close you need to be to get the same results. Not all his goals are “necessary” to win. So would it be a 25 goal a season forward, 30, 35 etc.
Goals are goals and they are all important for different reasons.
So less of the lazy Noot, you ratbag of a man and stop whining the pair of you
Erling Haaland schmerling haaland
People are waking up and realizing how overrated he is! Finally!!!
Alan Shearer: If Kane was in this City team he’d score as many as Haaland
Paul Merson: Haaland wouldn't score 60 goals in League Two
Alan Shearer: If Kane was in this City team he’d score as many as Haaland
Paul Merson: Haaland wouldn't score 60 goals in League Two
And we can go back to laughing at @Anderson_7_
Amazing that this thread has more posts since the start of the season than any player performance thread (except Maguire's).
This is the worst post I’ve ever seen in any forum since the internet was born.
Oh boy, you're in for a ride if you look through his post history.
Pretty sure he was joking mate
Always gives me a good laugh.
Anderson7 is the Skip Bayless to Haaland's Lebron James. Too bad he's not making nearly as much money off it as Skip did.
Sorry for the overly Yank reference.
Sorry for the overly Yank reference.
The fact you’re sure he was joking just shows the absurdity of the post haha.
He wasn’t joking. Go back and have a look at some more of his posts in this thread, if you can be arsed.
So as a relatively inactive lurker, is Anderson7 just your version of Rory Jennings?
Fun fact: Of Haalands 17 PL goals, only two have been assisted by Foden, Mahrez, B. Silva or Grealish.
How many does KDB have?