[Bobski]

This is the thing. It's clear his teammates don't trust him and look to bypass him more often than try and use him. Unfortunately for him, his first touch and the amount of times he fails to control the ball or not have it ricochet off him to an opponent, only proves them right not to involve him where they can.

It massively limits what he can bring to the build up play, even when controlled it usually takes 2/3 touches more than it should, slowing attacking impetus down.

He is worse than Chicarito or Lukaku in that aspect and it was obvious that their limitations would make them a short term prospect at Utd.

A touch that erratic doesn't often get fixed at this stage of a player development, it is something that top players just have.

 

[sebsheep]

It’s a huge problem having such a bad centre forward, so many potential attacks break down and he offers very little.

He’s better than this and he can finish but he is so bad in some aspects that it is very difficult to see him being at the club next season.

Are these potential attacks in the room with us?

The vast majority of our attacks break down before we even look to involve him. When we made the subs today and started progressing the ball upfield better he looked better. Still not great and had some poor touches, but better.

 

[Andycoleno9]

His technique is abysmal. People here talk about how he needs balls in space. When he was running on the goal in second half, ball was all over the place. It was real Hojlund vs ball fight.

 

[Giggsyking]

Gutted for him that flick was blocked. Would have been a cracking goal.

It was off target. Thankfully it got blocked and bounced back to Z.

 

[Fortitude]

It massively limits what he can bring to the build up play, even when controlled it usually takes 2/3 touches more than it should, slowing attacking impetus down.

He is worse than Chicarito or Lukaku in that aspect and it was obvious that their limitations would make them a short term prospect at Utd.

A touch that erratic doesn't often get fixed at this stage of a player development, it is something that top players just have.

It's a basic fundamental and prerequisite that has nothing to do with anyone else on the pitch, so when you fail at that, your life as a striker is going to be miserable because you can't be relied upon to bring your team into the play or alleviate stress off the midfield.

It's a big concern before literally anything else is considered.

 

[Kopral Jono]

Thought he was okay barring some shocking touches.

Yeah, better tonight but it's a very low bar. His confidence is evidently in pieces right now.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

He might be a big lad but he has zero presence at the moment. Just doesn't make any dangerous runs and massively limits the cohesion of your team.

Not an easy gig for him, mind you, and not difficult to have some sympathy.

 

[Roboc7]

Are these potential attacks in the room with us?

The vast majority of our attacks break down before we even look to involve him. When we made the subs today and started progressing the ball upfield better he looked better. Still not great and had some poor touches, but better.

You swap him for pretty much any centre forward int the league, they’ll retain the ball more, lay if off more, bring others into play more and create more attacks.

He is pretty much non existent, it’s not all his fault of course but he is a big contributor to the issue.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

It was off target. Thankfully it got blocked and bounced back to Z.

Nah it was on target. Only doubt was whether keeper might have saved it. Very good effort anyway.

 

[yamo123x]

Horrific again,.movement in the box absolutely woeful.

 

[lsd]

He wasn't bad today and was unlucky not to have scored before it fell to Zirkzee.

 

[Eddy_JukeZ]

Should be nowhere near the XI next season.

 

[The Hilton]

He's the kind of player that needs to be able to run in behind, as he isn't good enough on the ball to hold it up with any consistency, especially when defenders get tight to him.

 

[Monmouthshire Red]

He's reminiscent of those luminaries we signed to play up front in the 80s: Gary Birtles, Peter Davenport (nice one Forest, fleeced us twice there), Alan Brazil, Terry Gibson, Garth Crookes. None of them ever looked like scoring and neither does he.

 

[Andycoleno9]

Should be nowhere near the XI next season.

Should be nowhere near the club next season

 

[Irwin99]

I think that flicked effort was the first shot i've seen him make in quite a few games. There's probably a bit of truth to both arguments: he's not getting much service but he's not actually that good in his overall game at the moment.

 

[BorisManUtd]

2 goals this season in domestic competitions says enough. This is under ten Hag and Amorim so in different formations and under different managers. Definitely was better last season even if he struggled many times last season as well.

 

[FlawlessVictory88]

It's genuinely amazing how United can have one of the best chance creating players in Europe for the last few seasons only behind KDB but people still say he doesn't get service.

His positioning and movement is atrocious.

 

[Aint gota Kalou]

He's awful, sadly.

 

[RuudTom83]

When he reacted like a madman at Garnacho, I used to be in the camp which was all for it! but reality is even if Garnacho had squared the ball (just like he did in 3 other times during the second half) Rasmus would of been nowhere near it anyway.

 

[Berbaclass]

 

[Cassidy]

When he reacted like a madman at Garnacho, I used to be in the camp which was all for it! but reality is even if Garnacho had squared the ball (just like he did in 3 other times during the second half) Rasmus would of been nowhere near it anyway.

Didn’t we score from Garnacho squaring it and Hojlund getting on the end of it?

Can’t Garnacho see a striker making a 6 yard box run and put the ball in the 6 yard box instead of pulling it back to the penalty spot? The one time he did we scored.

When he pulled it back to the pen spot, thats not where we should expect our no 9 to be. Its where one of the CMs should be arriving e.g Bruno

Hojlund had many faults in the game but I don’t think this was one of them. He was always in the 6 yard box when the ball went wide and we only put the ball in there once or twice and we scored from one of them

 

[Mcking]

He is always running to where he'd pose the least danger to the opposition. Does he know that he is supposed to try to escape defenders, not run towards them? Someone should tell him to hold his run sometimes.

 

[SER19]

He showed enough last season to prove that simply saying 'he's awful' or 'he's shit' is a poor post and a waste of time. He's certainly those things at the moment though and I'd venture that he has between now and may to save his career here. If the club think we could get anything near 30-40m which isnt rare for a striker, I believe they'd go for it in summer. That's how poor he has been this season sadly. Those two terrible touches in the space of 10 seconds tonight showed a player with confidence levels of zero.

This is a trivial guess, but I get the feeling he isnt popular with some players and I do wonder if appearing on that goldbridge rubbish rubbed up some teammates wrong. Teammates who are routinely ridiculed and mocked in a terrible way by goldbridge.

Thats an aside. I watch his goals v galatasaray last season, verus west ham last season, his tap ins at luton and see a striker I could really like.

Over to you, Rasmus, I think youve 3 months to save your United career.

 

[RuudTom83]

Hojlund had many faults in the game but I don’t think this was one of them. He was always in the 6 yard box when the ball went wide and we only put the ball in there once or twice and we scored from one of them

Generally I find Rasmus tends to be a yard away from most balls into the box...you can only blame the supply so much.

 

[BecksMetatarsal]

I'm going to cut the lad some slack as he's playing in a poor team that doesn't create many chances.

 

[Gandalf]

Generally I find Rasmus tends to be a yard away from most balls into the box...you can only blame the supply so much.

Would love to see some of these balls into box, in general we just are not moving the ball into the attacking third and during the Palace game for example, we endlessly turned around and passed back whenever we got near the box, it would be comical if it was not so infuriating. It is worth noting that we got an equalizer with Zirkzee and Hojlund on the pitch together, both were in the box and how many times this season have we had more than one in the box? If Amorim cannot see that playing Zirkzee behind a striker is the way to go then I despair. I would start both for the next few games and put one of the U21 strikers on the bench to run around in the last 15 minutes of games and get some experience.

 

[Cassidy]

Generally I find Rasmus tends to be a yard away from most balls into the box...you can only blame the supply so much.

I think its a bit of both.

There are times I think he goes near post way to often. But what is clear is that he aims to be in the 6 yard box and our delivery is usually looking for pullbacks. Thats ok if we have midfielders attacking the box but we don’t.

To me a lot of the issue are due to how we setup in attack.

Thats not to say he doesn’t have his faults by the way. I think his general movement in our buildup is rubbish. However when we get the ball wide and the ball can go into the box I think hes ok here, I think our decision making in these situations is really poor.

Also we tend not to put the ball in the box quickly, we take extra touches or cut back and pass back for the cross and thats usually when hes made his run and he has to reset. These types of things you would expect a manager worth their salt to fix quickly but it has not happened. To be fair Amorim did say he has not focused enough yet on the attacking play and it shows

 

[Cassidy]

Would love to see some of these balls into box, in general we just are not moving the ball into the attacking third and during the Palace game for example, we endlessly turned around and passed back whenever we got near the box, it would be comical if it was not so infuriating. It is worth noting that we got an equalizer with Zirkzee and Hojlund on the pitch together, both were in the box and how many times this season have we had more than one in the box? If Amorim cannot see that playing Zirkzee behind a striker is the way to go then I despair. I would start both for the next few games and put one of the U21 strikers on the bench to run around in the last 15 minutes of games and get some experience.

Agree with this. Alot of strikers would look shite in this team. The ones that would look good would be the Isak type that can create their own chances

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

He showed enough last season to prove that simply saying 'he's awful' or 'he's shit' is a poor post and a waste of time. He's certainly those things at the moment though and I'd venture that he has between now and may to save his career here. If the club think we could get anything near 30-40m which isnt rare for a striker, I believe they'd go for it in summer. That's how poor he has been this season sadly. Those two terrible touches in the space of 10 seconds tonight showed a player with confidence levels of zero.

This is a trivial guess, but I get the feeling he isnt popular with some players and I do wonder if appearing on that goldbridge rubbish rubbed up some teammates wrong. Teammates who are routinely ridiculed and mocked in a terrible way by goldbridge.

Thats an aside. I watch his goals v galatasaray last season, verus west ham last season, his tap ins at luton and see a striker I could really like.

Over to you, Rasmus, I think youve 3 months to save your United career.

He showed enough that it’s normal for him to have runs such as 20 games without a goal.

 

[Cassidy]

He showed enough that it’s normal for him to have runs such as 20 games without a goal.

As a team we have showed its normal to go seasons with dire goal scoring records as a team and struggle to finish seasons with positive goal difference even before he got to the club.

Whilst I don’t think Hojlund is that great I do think hes probably alot better than what we see today in this side. Our approach to build up and attacking play is poor. We play at pedestrian pace and don’t do anything with any tempo.

 

[Ronaldo's ego]

I don’t rate him at all but how many would Ruud, RVP score in this team? Chances need to be created for goals to be scored.

 

[KeanoMagicHat]

I don’t rate him at all but how many would Ruud, RVP score in this team? Chances need to be created for goals to be scored.

They’d be on at least 10 goals. Hojlund is several levels below in striker play. The team isn’t perfect that’s not all his fault but it’s also partly his fault because he’s failing every week leading the line.

 

[Eddy_JukeZ]

I don’t rate him at all but how many would Ruud, RVP score in this team? Chances need to be created for goals to be scored.

Not only would both score way more, they'd also be levels above him in overall play.

Lukaku wasn't good enough and he was miles better than Hojlund

 

[sammyhol]

It is fair to say that he gets crap service, and some of his runs go unfound.

But you can’t be a starting number 9 at the top level these days and be so technically poor.

Zirkzee is far from perfect, but he at least shows glimpses of good hold up and interplay.

Rasmus looks levels below the prem when he receives the ball into his feet in congested areas.

 

[Sanchez7]

Saw some stats on reddit of our two strikers. He has had 13(6) shots(on target) on goal in the league while ZZ has had 19(8). Meanwhile Haaland has 92 shots on goal.

 

[Waynne]

He is always running to where he'd pose the least danger to the opposition. Does he know that he is supposed to try to escape defenders, not run towards them? Someone should tell him to hold his run sometimes.

There was an avalanche of cutbacks from Garnacho to the centre of the penalty area or the edge of the box and each fecking time this guy made the same fecking run where he's damn near ontop of the goal keeper at the end of it.
The worst possible position to receive a pass from Garnacho and didnt realise in any of that time that maybe the next time Nacho taking it to the byline that he should hold his run or hang back for cut back for an easy tap in.

A complete donkey of a CF. What our recruiters saw in him I will never know.

 

[FlawlessVictory88]

The mods should create a rule where anybody who claims he doesn't get service has to explain how he's in a side with two of the best chance creating players in the league Bruno/Amad but yet has no service. Bruno is in the 99th percentile for progressive passes, 94th for shot creating actions and 88th for expected assists.

It's like having Kevin De Bruyne playing behind a striker for and claiming he gets no service.

 

[Shark]

Can't defend him anymore. Needs to either be taken out of the squad for a while to try to recapture the basics of football, or moved on in the summer. It's actually embarrassing to have a CF of this quality out there for us at the moment.

 

[Flying_Heckfish]

Saw some stats on reddit of our two strikers. He has had 13(6) shots(on target) on goal in the league while ZZ has had 19(8). Meanwhile Haaland has 92 shots on goal.

I believe that absolutely. We create nothing, and he creates nothing for himself.

The fact we are so bad doesn't completely absolve him, but it just highlights how far off it we are. Everyone here was saying he should be a backup to an experienced striker, youngsters will blow hot and cold (unless they are prodigies) and right now he's subzero