Bundesliga is a very easy league for strikers
Nordic Ghost Yeti (Scandi Carroll) | Haaland at City
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They could form a band named Andy nd the Carrolletes.
Worst player of all time?
Too far ffs!
He is very young and still needs to add facets to his game. I know English football is used to have prodigious kids peaking at 19-21, but most of them disappear soon after. I am not sure Haaland will become the new Lewandowski, just a Filippo Inzaghi would suffice provided that he becomes smarter with the defenders and their line.
Does he look skinnier to anybody else?
Anyone have passes completed stats for him from today’s game? I think I counted, maybe, one?
Going to be flop of the season. City have been mugged off.
On a serious note, I feel Alvarez would be more suited to City’s football than Haaland.
On a serious note, I feel Alvarez would be more suited to City’s football than Haaland.
Guardiola clearly wants to go for the CL this season.
Haaland is not the type of player he would build his squad around for the whole season.
Haaland is not the type of player he would build his squad around for the whole season.
Not a great game... but should have scored and could have got another 1 or 2
Over a season he will score plenty ... not sure it will make city much better but will give them different options.
Over a season he will score plenty ... not sure it will make city much better but will give them different options.
Van Dijk had the Norwegian Ricky Lambert in his pocket all game
He doesn't get involved enough with the game when they have the ball.
Makes me realize how deadly he would be for Ole as his number 9 - sitting on the counter with Sancho, Rashford, Daniel James and, Martial and Bruno Fernándes passes.
Possesion was the complete opposite to Ole’s tactics.
Possesion was the complete opposite to Ole’s tactics.
If Haaland struggles at city or fails to live up to expectation, I think I’ll lose any hope and interest in buying players from the Bundesliga. He would end up being another player in a long list of failures who support the argument that Bundesliga is a poor farmers league.
Pretty ugly feker, isn't he?
Haaland is going to be top goalscorer and City are winning the league.
What the feck is going on here.
What the feck is going on here.
Didn't think he would fit City's game but he's still dynamite. I'll be surprised if he doesn't adapt to the league pretty quickly.
Ole to City???
Haaland combined with Dan James is a scary thought
He'll score enough to not be a flop, but like I've always said he's less suited to being the 9 in Pep ball than Jesus or Aguero. Pep doesn't put individuals ahead of system so I feel its only a matter of time we see Haaland on the bench for "tactical reasons".
Does anyone know the answer to this question? Google is letting me down.
yeah, it made me realize why he went for Ronaldo as his replacement targetman but it obviously didn’t work out.
I wonder what Rashford's stats would be if he played in the Bundesliga.
I know it’s not passes. But only 8 touches is not a good start in a system where every player normally gets involved with many touches.
He’d probably tear it up in that league, I’m not even kidding. He would thrive on the oceans of space to run into behind those defences.
Cool. Thanks. Not quite what I was looking for but confirms how amazingly peripheral he was. It looks that bit more bizarre because of how massive and blonde he is.
My heart tells me he’ll bag plenty of goals but like I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I don’t know at what detriment to the rest of the team it’ll be. I feel they are going to lose goals elsewhere in the team. Similar to how I feel we play with Ronaldo. He gets his fair share of goals with everyone else getting little return. What’s going to be interesting to see is how well City adapt to basically changing the entire way they’ve been building attacks for last few seasons. How much better can you get from 90+ points every season with 100ish goals.
It could end with a classic case of if it ain’t broken, why fix it.
City's Ronaldo. Will be their top scorer but make them worse.
Such statement is exactly what continental Europeans used to say about English football when Serie A and La Liga dominated in the 1990s up to the early 2000s, you know.
But who will he take goals from? Mharez maybe but Grealish etc aren’t prolific
Yeah I reckon Alvarez is going to be lethal for them.
Neither him or Grealish look like ideal Pep players.
According to whoscored.com, he attempted 9 passes with a 77.8% completion rate. So a whopping 7 passes completed apparently, but on the plus side 2 of them were key passes.
https://www.whoscored.com/Players/315227/MatchStatistics/Erling-Haaland
I believe his name is Ghrealis
Jacques Ghrealis
De Bruyne was really poor today. Haaland made a few excellent runs in behind that weren't picked out by KdB. If he had, there would be a different conversation in here.
Of course, that will change in time and Haaland will unfortunately be a huge threat going forward.
Of course, that will change in time and Haaland will unfortunately be a huge threat going forward.
Very true but I will still enjoy a smug "Haaland played well" to a few City fans I know when I see them
It would be hilarious if he flopped badly, but I think he will be fine. Man City create so many chances even a donkey will score loads upfront, as long as he doesn't disturb the team dynamic and play style so much
Last season like previous seasons, city have always spread their goals out. They’ve never had one prolific player since Aguero. But that’s part of my point in that I feel playing Haaland will reduce the spread of their goals. City have been playing a false 9 system last couple of years which naturally brings other players into dangerous situations due to the way they build up the attacks.
City’s prem scorers last season with games played and goals scored.
| 1 | Kevin De Bruyne | 30 | 15 |
| 2 | Raheem Sterling | 30 | 13 |
| 3 | Riyad Mahrez | 28 | 11 |
| 4 | Phil Foden | 28 | 9 |
| 5 | Bernardo Silva | 35 | 8 |
| Gabriel Jesus | 28 | 8 | |
| Ilkay Gündogan | 27 | 8 | |
| 8 | Rodri | 33 | 7 |
With Haaland, I don’t see KDB, Mahrez, foden and Grealish getting as many but Haaland getting 20+. Similar to how I feel when martial plays he’ll allow the likes of Rashford, Sancho and Bruno to all get at least 5 goals extra each rather than all the goals focused through Ronaldo.