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2023-24 Performances

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5.5 Season Average Rating
Appearances
43
Goals
16
Assists
2
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Canagel said:
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There are a lot of times our players take the wrong option in attacking positions, and a lot of times they ignore Hojlund's runs, but I don't think this one is that egregious.

The defender on the six yard line is in a great position to react first to a cross or cutback.
 
Canagel said:

I will reserve my judgement on him. He is playing with idiots and clowns that have no clue how to smell a strikers movement and a manager that has no system in place to enable chance creation.


The UCL goals prove he has potential. Direct your frustrations at the right people.
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Our group has two Europa League standard teams and a very good side
 
Stacks said:
Our group has two Europa League standard teams and a very good side
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Yet all three are known as very difficult places to go and he scored both in Copenhagen and Galatasaray.
Look at Copenhagens statistic at home in the champions league.
 
Rhyme Animal said:
Martial has a goal and an assist in 353 less minutes, Hojlund has 0 goals and 0 assists.

Martial also has an infinitely better touch than Hojlund.

What is it, specifically, that Rasmus is bringing that you’re so enamoured with?
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Exactly, Hojlund tries hard, that's his standout quality at present, we had that with Wout.
 
V.O. said:
There are a lot of times our players take the wrong option in attacking positions, and a lot of times they ignore Hojlund's runs, but I don't think this one is that egregious.

The defender on the six yard line is in a great position to react first to a cross or cutback.
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And the player closest to Dalot is slightly behind him but already starting to slide, so he would not be able to block the shot but quite likely to also block the cut back.

People were screaming about this and every time I saw it I thought the pass to Hojlund was extremely unlikely to come off and that shooting was the right choice.
 
Rhyme Animal said:
Martial has a goal and an assist in 353 less minutes, Hojlund has 0 goals and 0 assists.

Martial also has an infinitely better touch than Hojlund.

What is it, specifically, that Rasmus is bringing that you’re so enamoured with?
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These numbers are starting to look like we might have a issue with creating chances for our forwards, or maybe we should move our midfielders up top?

People also need to stop acting like Martial is a new signing who we haven't watched underperform for a few seasons.
 
Rhyme Animal said:
Martial has a goal and an assist in 353 less minutes, Hojlund has 0 goals and 0 assists.

Martial also has an infinitely better touch than Hojlund.

What is it, specifically, that Rasmus is bringing that you’re so enamoured with?
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Why are you including Martial's assist in CL but leaving out Højlund's 5 goals there?

Are you seriously arguing we should play Martial as our striker?
 
Bobski said:
The foot by the ball is the planting foot, by the time his right was through to strike it the space for the pass was much tighter, would probably have been blocked.
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Yeah I think a straight cutback would have been blocked. Dalot could've fake a shot with his right and stopped in the same move though... Might have freed himself up for a cutback to Hojlund. I'd just like to add, if that were Ronaldo in the middle, no way Dalot shoots there. I remember most of the team, especially Bruno, bending over backwards trying to find Ronaldo at times.

Looking at the bigger picture here, how long before Hojlund stops making runs because his team mates are not even attempting to find?
 
McFred said:
Who was the last player signed from Serie A to do well in the Premier League? Seems like the ‘Bundesliga tax’ could equally apply to Serie A…Premier League level is just higher than everywhere else and Utds scouting team (is that a thing?) are not adept enough at picking out the right ones to bet on.
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This would make sense if he was tearing up Serie A. He wasn’t, he wasn’t a regular and scored 9 goals all season. He was also subbed off early in a couple of games because he was being dominated by the centre backs.

His first 90 minute game happened in January and only 4 times after that.

I have faith in the guy, but he was never supposed to be a starter at Atalanta, let alone here.

It’s worth noting his goals came against the weaker sides apart from 1 against Lazio. Spezia, Empoli, Monza, Bologna and Salerenitina were the rest
 
zaafi said:
Why are you including Martial's assist in CL but leaving out Højlund's 5 goals there?
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I understand you’re frantically agenda posting, but you might wanna actually check Martial’s PL output before declaring that he has no assists in the PL mate…

zaafi said:
We're a team in shambles who create nothing. Putting the blame on a 20 year old who gets no service is pathetic.
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No one’s blaming him, but equally - why should he be absolved of his part in it…?

There are players in this team who’ve proven themselves at the highest level - Hojlund isn’t one of them.

Likewise, there are CFs for relegation fodder teams with far lower xG than Man Utd who are scoring and assisting. Added to this fact, many of these players have played LESS minutes than Hojlund.

Why ignore the above fact?
 
zaafi said:
We're a team in shambles who create nothing. Putting the blame on a 20 year old who gets no service is pathetic.
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We do create chances, and nobody is putting the blame on anyone please don’t be over dramatic. We shouldn’t have signed Hojlund at the price we did and he shouldn’t be our main striker, he might never be good enough.
 
He needs an experienced striker to learn from,it should have been the priority and not signing Onana and Mount
 
Imo it's both we don't create enough and the lad isn't good enough (yet).

It's easy to see we don't create enough. But to say just because of that he doesn't score is quite wrong imo. One thing you can notice about good goal scorers is somehow they usually find themselves completely free of any defender or half a step ahead of the defender marking him so they can get to the ball first. I don't think we have seen that often with Hojlund yet. He's usually find himself surrounded by the CBs or the CBs always get to the ball first he's always a bit, probably just a feet or even half one late. That's why he hasn't scored in the PL imo. The PL defenders are still too fast and strong for him to handle.

Imo he will become a good #9 in probably two years when he manages to learn the tricks and adapt to the PL. He got the ingredients to become one. The problem is who the feck gonna score goals for us in that two years.
 
Rhyme Animal said:
FFS, come on mate. Get with it.
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That "assist" is a penalty, which Højlund should have got against Arsenal.
The goal was from a brilliant pass in the run by Bruno, something he has yet to actually do to Højlund for some reason.
Martials first touch is much better and thats it. Rasmus is faster, can actually hold up and resist being pressed and his pressing is great.
Its no coincidence that our press didnt work when we started Martial and that McTom suddenly didnt get any space when Rasmus wasnt there to pull away defenders.
Martial is also almost never in the box when he needs to be.
 
Rojofiam said:
Both of those are significantly worse options than Hojlund.
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Could you please clarify on what basis Rasmus is considered a better option? He doesn't seem to be a better goal scorer than either Goncalo Ramos or Randal Kolo Muani, and his footballing skills are significantly worse. Additionally, while he may have marginal physical superiority, his technical deficiency is a hindrance.
 
D. Grayson said:
I would rather have a striker who can pass the ball and create chances, even if he is not scoring goals, than a striker who cannot pass and is not scoring goals.
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Once again I invite you to watch the games. They’re not better passers either
 
Canagel said:

I will reserve my judgement on him. He is playing with idiots and clowns that have no clue how to smell a strikers movement and a manager that has no system in place to enable chance creation.


The UCL goals prove he has potential. Direct your frustrations at the right people.
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Dalot is just not a very intelligent player.

9 times out of 10 that player can get the ball towards the striker. If it gets cut out, you'll have people saying he should have shot, but a better player with awareness and brains will get a ball across to the striker. It was the same agaisnt Chelsea, he made some great near post moves and was ignored 2 or 3 times.
 
Canagel said:

I will reserve my judgement on him. He is playing with idiots and clowns that have no clue how to smell a strikers movement and a manager that has no system in place to enable chance creation.


The UCL goals prove he has potential. Direct your frustrations at the right people.
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The reaction on matchday thread was spot on. Dalot deserves to have his wage deducted after this.
As obvious as it looks, several players would do the same as well. We have a squad full of sub 80 IQ players.
 
He’s fast and agile but the link up play and the killer instinct isn’t there yet.

He’s obviously not ready yet and needs a couple of years, even then I’m not totally convinced he can be a top striker.

At the end of the day the service has been so rotten it’s hard to judge Rasmus.
 
fallengt said:
The reaction on matchday thread was spot on. Dalot deserves to have his wage deducted after this.
As obvious as it looks, several players would do the same as well. We have a squad full of sub 80 IQ players.
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Never mind Dalot. You should have your wages deducted for this post
 
There’s no doubt Rasmus has been starved for service, but he wasn’t ready for the demands of the PL this season and I worry that we’re wrecking him. His attitude is fantastic and hopefully that sees him through what has become an abysmal experience in terms of the shiteness of various player issues and ridiculously poor management and then on top of that the whole uncertainty of the ownership structure of the club, which curiously few here or in the UK media discuss as a factor in what we have seen on the pitch this season. A shame what we’re doing to him.
 
Canagel said:

I will reserve my judgement on him. He is playing with idiots and clowns that have no clue how to smell a strikers movement and a manager that has no system in place to enable chance creation.


The UCL goals prove he has potential. Direct your frustrations at the right people.
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I'm no fan of Dalot but in that instance the cutback wasn't all that straightforward. The defenders were kind of well positioned to block it.

But we all know Dalot didn't even consider it. Even if he didn't successfully make the pass there should have been nothing else on his mind. For some reason we have a bunch of players who don't really see football as a team game.
 
For me its mind-boggling how anybody can compare Martial and Hojlund, and not see Hojlund brings so much more pressure on the opponent. Most of the times when Scott scores, its because of Hojlunds movement that drags the defender away. He could easily have scored against Chelsea if Scott didn't make the run in front of him.

But he is a main striker at one of the biggest (not best) clubs in the world, 20 years old. We shall without doubt buy a first-class ST, he can learn from and take som pressure.
 
Marwood said:
I'm no fan of Dalot but in that instance the cutback wasn't all that straightforward. The defenders were kind of well positioned to block it.

But we all know Dalot didn't even consider it. Even if he didn't successfully make the pass there should have been nothing else on his mind. For some reason we have a bunch of players who don't really see football as a team game.
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Even if the cutback hadn’t worked chances are you win a corner rather than smashing it against the side netting.
 
I’m gonna say it, this thread will look hilarious in 6 months to a year when he’s banging them in. Amazing that some people literally cannot look beyond the spreadsheet and see the ability he possesses. It might take a new manager, or an upturn in form but he will score goals for fun and I for one can’t wait to quote some of the dafties in here.
 
Rockets Redglare said:
Even if the cutback hadn’t worked chances are you win a corner rather than smashing it against the side netting.
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Yeah 100%.

The lack of on pitch repercussion doesn't help. Nobody really has a go at Dalot in that situation. He just gets to jog off.

If he shoots and it's Cole, RvP, Ruud, Hughes or Cantona in the middle, he gets absolutely roasted.
 
TrustInJanuzaj said:
I’m gonna say it, this thread will look hilarious in 6 months to a year when he’s banging them in. Amazing that some people literally cannot look beyond the spreadsheet and see the ability he possesses. It might take a new manager, or an upturn in form but he will score goals for fun and I for one can’t wait to quote some of the dafties in here.
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He does have lot of attributes to actually become Complete forward So though I can understand having doubts about his ceiling and his current drought in PL , I rather wait unlike some who can't wait to write him off already .
 
Marwood said:
Yeah 100%.

The lack of on pitch repercussion doesn't help. Nobody really has a go at Dalot in that situation. He just gets to jog off.

If he shoots and it's Cole, RvP, Ruud, Hughes or Cantona in the middle, he gets absolutely roasted.
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Well given that his own captain is notoriously not passing to Højlund whenever the ladder is in a good position, I dont know who would really roast him.
I do agree with you 100% though.
 
He's assimilated now, isn't he? Damn with the integration bit that some clubs go for. Our club is all about assimilation. Stop working hard, show no intensity and just plainly give up. He has regressed. Not scoring any goals is also a huge concern. I kind of like him as a player, and he is still very young, but the buy hasn't worked out thus far.
 
Lyng said:
Well given that his own captain is notoriously not passing to Højlund whenever the ladder is in a good position, I dont know who would really roast him.
I do agree with you 100% though.
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I don't believe Bruno is deliberately not passing to Hojlund but you're right its not really happening between the two of them. Not sure why that is though.

Either way the senior players should have gone nuts at Dalot.
 
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