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2024-25 Performances

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5.4 Season Average Rating
Appearances
20
Goals
7
Assists
1
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He is average striker. One good game in 10 is enough to people go crazy about him. But yeah, we need starting no9.
He can be good backup option.
 
The thing with young star attackers is once in a while they have games where you think "wow, they couldn't handle him all game". Hojlund hasn't ever had that. I'm not expecting him to dominate games at this stage, but he's never shown that level where it would make you think he can be a top striker. He's decent, and has some good moments but that's about it. Think his talent level peak after watching him since he joined is somewhere around Europa League level range relative to premier league clubs, not a CF for a top 4 club.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
He is average striker. One good game in 10 is enough to people go crazy about him. But yeah, we need starting no9.
He can be good backup option.
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I feel he should be one of the first ones out of the door once the new management is in place, he simply isnt good enough
 
RedRocket9908 said:
No system will fit him at this level when he just falls over or gets easilly dispossesed everytime we give him the ball, he simply isnt a Premier League quality player
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What a daft comment when looking at him last season.
 
Lyng said:
Yeah let's bin him the moment we get a system that fits him.
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Love this narrative about system. Which system is that? Is that system where striker doesn't need to pass the ball or control the ball? System where striker doesn't need to win duels? System where striker doesn't need sense for positioning in the box?
 
One of the problems is that he's a great pressing striker, but our team is now not pressing as high up the pitch and so we're not seeing what makes him shine
 
El Jefe said:
Wank. Zirkzee being much worse is making him a lot more tolerable but we shouldn't be accepting someone with his ability being our No.9.

The times he failed to look up and release the open passes into the channel to the wide players showed the level of player he is.
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Worst comment in the thread. Hojlund has provided our wingers with passes and got them through on goal multiple times since he got here. Not so much the other way around.

Edit: one of the worst comments. Sorry, there are a lot of competition.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
Love this narrative about system. Which system is that? Is that system where striker doesn't need to pass the ball or control the ball? System where striker doesn't need to win duels? System where striker doesn't need sense for positioning in the box?
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A system where the striker is running channels. The system Amorim uses.
 
I wish he got the chance in the end instead of Zirkzee
 
Apart from Haaland and R9, what strikers was a finished product at 21?
Even Gyokeres who is the new Caf darling started hitting numbers at 26yo and in the Portuguese league (he was a 1 in 2 striker at best in the Championship)
 
There’s a player in there, but his performances are either 9/10 or 2/10 and nothing in between. It’s what you expect from a young player.

Unfortunately for him we’re awful, so it stands out more
 
Habs said:
There’s a player in there, but his performances are either 9/10 or 2/10 and nothing in between. It’s what you expect from a young player.

Unfortunately for him we’re awful, so it stands out more
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I know its trivial but he's never given a 9/10 performance.
 
bosnian_red said:
The thing with young star attackers is once in a while they have games where you think "wow, they couldn't handle him all game". Hojlund hasn't ever had that. I'm not expecting him to dominate games at this stage, but he's never shown that level where it would make you think he can be a top striker. He's decent, and has some good moments but that's about it. Think his talent level peak after watching him since he joined is somewhere around Europa League level range relative to premier league clubs, not a CF for a top 4 club.
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Agreed, and he is one of our overrated players of which there are many.

He is pacy and has a lethal left foot but his overall play is meh. Technical ability is definately not top 4 standard.
 
The team should be tasked with creating 3 chances for the CF every game. Then it’s up to Hojlund to take one of those chances.

Currently the team is forever obsessed with counter attacking as quick as humanly possible, resulting in the wide attacker taking shots from crazy angles.

Until the teams starts playing for the CF we will never know if Hojlund is good enough or not.
 
RedRocket9908 said:
We wernt talking about Europe we wwre talking about the Premier League, this guy is hopeless at this level and should not be a starting number 9 for a Premier League club.
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He might not make it at United, but to claim he isn't even Premier League level is so utterly ridiculous I am not sure if your trolling at this point.

We shall see what happens under Amorim.
 
RedRocket9908 said:
We wernt talking about Europe we wwre talking about the Premier League, this guy is hopeless at this level and should not be a starting number 9 for a Premier League club.
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He is far from hopeless, countless PL strikers don't get 10 league goals in a season let alone in their debut season at the age of 20. We conveniently forget that many of the legends of the SAF teams were playing at a much lower level than this at the same age and did not become established PL forwards until closer to their mid twenties. The price tag and our desperation mean we have no patience and want him to be the finished article right away but it is just not that simple. We know from his games in Serie A that he is effective running the channels, at Old Trafford we have tried to get him to play as a target man which was a new role for him and he has struggled although there have been signs of improvement. I was at the Brentford game and after a rough opening 15 minutes he was outstanding.

We have become used to the fact that players do not improve when we sign them but that is a function of bad coaching quite frankly as so many players do improve at other clubs. We have hired a new manager, one who has made a name for himself by improving players and by playing a system that suits guys like Rasmus. I hear and understand your frustration and the frustration of other posters in this thread but I think this is a case where patience will be rewarded.
 
Anyone care to comment on the bit where Colwill grabbed him round the neck in the penalty area, was a bit tied up with work things and missed the replay, just heard the commentator say it certainly wasn’t a penalty, but saw the scratches on his neck afterwards.
 
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Andycoleno9 said:
Love this narrative about system. Which system is that? Is that system where striker doesn't need to pass the ball or control the ball? System where striker doesn't need to win duels? System where striker doesn't need sense for positioning in the box?
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Came here to say the same thing, you just missed one thing though. Spends too much time diving and it looks like the refs have him check marked that he's a diver, hence don't give those fouls
 
Not a bad moment winning the penalty for a lad with no first touch. We just need to get the ball to him in those areas more.

Thought he did well today in a lot of aspects of his game and it looks like he is getting towards full fitness.

It’s tiresome reading some of the comments.
 
Red_toad said:
Anyone care to comment on the bit where Colwill grabbed him round the neck in the penalty area, was a bit tied up with work things and missed the replay, just heard the commentator say it certainly wasn’t a penalty, but saw the scratches on his neck afterwards.
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Looks like he had hands on his neck but in real time didn’t seem like much to be honest.
 
This is what Andy Cole said about him.. and when you watch Hojlund play, you can’t help but notice how bang on it is.

“Watching him again on Saturday, because the game has changed so much, he has an obsession in wanting to fight the centre half,” the former United man said.

“You don’t need to. Not in the modern game. Back in the day when it got sparky, yeah. But now he has this obsession where he’s got to fight, I’ve got to know where he is, I’ve got to have a little tussle with him. He’s fighting and tussling so much he doesn’t get hold of the ball. Just play freely.”

That and his tendency to hold on to the ball too long rather than pass to a team mate more quickly are my biggest frustrations with him… but I still think he has loads of potential because these are easy improvements to make.
 
Jury is still out on him for me. I think he has potential but there are a lot of elements of his game that need to improve, such as hold up play and the speed in which he plays the ball. A few times today he took an age to play the pass and the opportunity was lost.

At his age and inexperience, he shouldn't be the starting number 9 at a club of our stature. Ideally he'd be rotated in and out with a more experienced centre forward, but we're so dysfunctional that's where we've found ourselves.

I've heard Ten Hag wanted to bring in Welbeck during the summer but it was vetoed. I have very little faith in Ten Hag's judgement of players, but in this case I think Welbeck would have been an ideal addition to the squad in terms of experience and taking some of the pressure off Hojlund. Instead we have Zirkzee. How the f**k has the club allowed itself to be in this position, it's absolutely criminal.
 
Passitlikescholes said:
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Came here to say the same thing, you just missed one thing though. Spends too much time diving and it looks like the refs have him check marked that he's a diver, hence don't give those fouls
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I don't get that impression when I watch him. It seems like he thrives off the physical duels with defenders by backing into them to protect the ball. He certainly doesn't come across as a diver. Diving is when there's little to no contact from the opposition player.
 
I like how hard he tries, and there is clearly something here and potential that can be worked with, but he is probably the worst starting striker we’ve had for a long time.
Maybe Lukaku when he was out of shape was worse, but not the fit Lukaku.
 
Gabriel Djemba-Bebe said:
I don't get that impression when I watch him. It seems like he thrives off the physical duels with defenders by backing into them to protect the ball. He certainly doesn't come across as a diver. Diving is when there's little to no contact from the opposition player.
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He goes down too easily, I call it diving because that's what it is.

He had a good game vs Brentford because he actually chose to stay on his feet and was able to control it and play the lay off pass. That's the only game I can remember where he was actually competent in holding up the ball
 
Passitlikescholes said:
He goes down too easily, I call it diving because that's what it is.

He had a good game vs Brentford because he actually chose to stay on his feet and was able to control it and play the lay off pass. That's the only game I can remember where he was actually competent in holding up the ball
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Probably just a memory thing. He is very strong, protects the ball better than almost anyone, and stays on his feet a surprising number of time given that he has one or sometimes two six feet muscle bundles trying all they can to bundle him over.

Were he can become get better, is to avoid the physical duels when he faces goal, and it wouldn’t go amiss if he went down a bit more easily now and then. Did well today, and should have had two penalties. You could see Colwill’s claw marks on his throat long after the match for the first one. Baffling VAR that overlooked two clear penalties in one play as Rashford was also stanmed on his ancle, studs first.
 
Eager to see him under Amorim who uses a similar striker in Gyokeres, if he can't pull something out of Hojlund then I would be willing to concede that even though Hojlund is young, he maybe won't reach the full potential here. So, until then I still think he has the attributes to be quality, he just isn't a hold up striker and we aren't using him correctly, we need to see him more in the channels and so on.
 
The kid is 21 playing with 2 wingers who won't pass the ball and on top of that couldn't care less about defending. Doesn't have anyone who can carry a bit of his burden as a striker, so we need to play him all the time. And he is showing signs of improvements despite all that.

Give the kid a break, reckon Amorim will like him a lot. Not sure about Laurel and Hardy on wings.
 
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