You realize the high xG stat you mentioned is proving my point right? His goal was from 2 yards out. Had Coutinho’s goal stood, what would his xG be according to you and which goal would you say was better finish? I can’t believe I have to explain this simple fact to stat nerd on a football forum.
Yeah let's jerk each off over a City player instead.Hop into Haaland thread and it's a Messi/Neymar discussion, surely you guys have dozen of threads in football forum where you can jerk each other off marveling at their quality?
His dribbling back then was always criticised for being ineffective stepovers rather than going past a player. Now his fanbase and YouTube highlights are trying to rewrite that part of history pretending he was some dribbling god in his early days. I’m actually old enough to have watched those years. I feel like the majority claiming that he used to be a dribbling god weren’t around back then themselves.
*He wasn't like that from 08 on. His 06-07 season was amazing in that regards.
Yes it's the Erling Halaand thread on a United forum not the Erling Halaand jerkoff thread on blue moon shithouse. You're going to get comparisons and criticism here. It's fine if you don't like anyone downplaying his stats or abilities and want to celebrate him. You do you I guess.
Oh no, dissecting the attributes of a City player on a United forum in order to put him down. Blasphemous I say. We should stick to worshipping at his alter instead.
This is probably my 4th post in this thread, if a striker is scoring 10 goals in 6 games in apparently the toughest league in the world while adjusting to it, then they are going to get plaudits. The comparisons started because a lot of self-proclaimed Einsteins on here think goals don't really matter as much as normal folks think, hence they started dissecting the attributes of the said player to tear them down, while fawning at the technical ability of their said (insert favorite player). Believe me, it is tiring. A lot of us actively try to avoid these sort of comparison threads because nothing comes off it, nobody has ever convinced the other person they were in the wrong. It's the same shit, recycled and repeated ad-nauseam. With same set of people joining in to argue and continue the circle-jerk with those who agree. It only derails the thread.
I'll say it again, if you and others are so keen at gauging the opinion of this forum on his standing amongst greats, or his lack of technical ability compare to peers then go ahead and start a new thread. You'll get more fruitful discussion. In the last few pages I have read how Neymar is a better dribbler and playmaker than Messi, or how Ronaldo was a shit dribbler with playground tricks. It has nothing to do with Erling Haaland or his performances at City. Kindly spare me and others who don't want to revisit this non-sense.
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Take this to the Ronaldo thread, it doesn't belong in this one.
If you watched as many Madrid games as you claim you did you'd know there was games he'd dribble 5 times, there was games he'd dribble once and be asked to play off the last shoulder upfront. Averages are exactly that.. averages. His ability was there for all to see. No one has claimed he was Messi but you're being an outright troll if you are questioning his ability to skip past players or being able to manipulate a ball in any which way he likes.
And yet people wanted him gone because he was holding back the team from playing fluid football.
Top 3 Utd player of all time for me ….felt absolutely gutted when he left.
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He wasn’t prime Messi in terms of dribbling but he was better than 99.999999% of other players ever at dribbling, carrying the ball, beating a man etc
Dude I've given you stats. And I watched him. It's a lie to say he was an elite dribbler or that he manipulated the ball the way he wanted; he was decent at times thats it. Definitely not better than 99.99999% of others. You are creating a myth here.
100%. Sometimes City just is passing around, and Haaland can’t go for runs all the time. Very difficult for to know when to run, when the other players prefer some kind of power play (hockey). I think City has become more elaborate, and I don’t think it Haalands fault. I suspect it’s Pep’s vision. Maybe he realise he now have good enough players to play like Barca during his time there?
He’s absolutely nothing like old CR7. No idea what makes you think he is. The only thing they have in common is they can both score goals. But stylistic old CR7 and Haaland have nothing else in common.
The fact he mentioned “old” Ronaldo made the comparison even more absurd. I imagine he’s referring to younger Ronaldo in his first stint at Utd. I could probably find 200 players that are more similar to Haaland than that young Ronaldo. Baffling.
I think he literally talking about old Ronaldo as in age. There are similarities there when Ronaldo lost a bit of athleticism and the variety of his goals lessened
I don’t think that battle had a winner.
But even if he’s referring to the current Ronaldo there is not much similarities between the two.
