I know @Shaw's Shank Redemption is absolutely livid that's for sure, after all we only scouted and signed this guy because his name sounds similar to Haaland and he's ScandinavianAll the regulars who are here to slag him off after a poor performance are nowhere to be seen. Can't even give credit where it's due. @AarhusUnited in particular must be furious he had a great game
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- Assists
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
Of course not, but it ought to stop two kinds of posts: The ones claiming he definitely will never be good enough for us, and the ones claiming he only has himself to blame and that we’re just making excuses for him by pointing out the missing service - Garnacho has evidently been told to play the ball now, but he still had the chance to give Hojlund a hat trick and chose to f**k it up himself instead.
I can’t remember when the team last set him up like they did today. Maz’ assist - don’t think he’s ever gotten a ball like that in the box before. And he’s been starved of good crosses like the one for his second goal.
If he had bad technique, positioning, movement and whatnot, he wouldn’t have scored those goals tonight. It was nice to hear him say that this is much more like he played at Atalanta - cause it is, as I’ve already said in here.
The heat map that illustrates his positioning tonight says it all. Rubin wants him to soley stay uptop and remain a central figure for attack. And he executed that well.
A much needed change from him moving across the forward positions desperately trying to influence the game in unfamiliar and unwanted areas.
Stay central, it helps him and his teammates.
A much needed change from him moving across the forward positions desperately trying to influence the game in unfamiliar and unwanted areas.
Stay central, it helps him and his teammates.
He makes that run for the second goal all the time and not only does he never get the pass but they don't even try to make it. The more the players around him play to his strengths and feed him chances the less he's going to be trying to force things to happen and get involved where he shouldn't. He has things he needs to work on of course but confidence will also make a big difference hopefully.
Ooof some finish that after lovely control, the first touch was so good it would have been a peno if there was any contact afterwards. Beautiful. He’s a way better player than made out to be on here. Look at the variety in his finishes and his workrate. He’s potentially a beast of a striker if we can get the ball into him with enough time to get a shot off he should score or set up a lot of scrappy rebound goals. My MOTM.
To be fair if you look at his heatmap against West Ham in Ten Hag's last game, it's pretty similar. Leicester in the cup under Ruud as well. No idea why they picked the Chelsea game.
On the other hand, his heatmap against PAOK was somewhat similar to today's so maybe it's partly a Europe thing.
The first goal was ridiculous
Maybe Højlund stole his parking space outside Ceres Park when København where playing AGF away?
According to Opta Joe
It was the first time United have scored in the opening minute in European game since March 1991, when Brian McClair opened the scoring against Montpellier in a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup tie.
He did well today and I agreed with the decision to start him as well. That was his best performance in ages. There's still work to do but I hope the performance and goals do his confidence a world of good
The goal was so good you could stick a fork and a knife into the ball, eat it and it'd taste good. Crispy man, crispy.
It was Ruud style goal ,hopefully his confidence will grow from this performance.
Glad he played well today and long may it continue. He offers much more than any of the others as our 9.
I was referring to United's Lukaku during which he kept struggling to hold the ball or missing easy chances.
Thanks for remembering mate! Ive always wished he would prove me wrong and wish the best for the player but now we got to see this performances against the PL teams instead of the league's of Norway.
Again wish him well, but hopefully he can improve vs the teams like City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs atleast once in a whilst instead of scoring against Brentford, Luton town, Newport etc.
Hopefully Amorim can screw that into him.
why should i be furious? We won, we played well and Højlund was great to fantastic? Why do you People think that People will be furious if we are proven wrong, when its for the good for United? I dont care if Højlund or any other player is good or bad as long as United wins..All the regulars who are here to slag him off after a poor performance are nowhere to be seen. Can't even give credit where it's due. @AarhusUnited in particular must be furious he had a great game
And yes he was great and one of the best games i seen him play, both for United and Denmark in the last year.. If he Can keep that up, then you are right and i was wrong, but who cares then? But for me its what best for United, not who was right or wrong..
He wasn't wrestling the defenders. That's how you want him to play focused on the ball.
Best game of his career so far: 2G+1A, just brilliant. But he still doesn’t get enough service
He may not be a very well-rounded attacker, and may never be.
But he gives his all for the club and his teammates, doesn’t hide, attracts attention and thereby create space and has a decent finish on him.
If he can improve his technical ability and smarter in terms of using his qualities in a better way, I think we will be a good weapon to have.
I also thinks that his eagerness and self-confidence is a x-factor in terms of how high his ceiling is. He will work hard to improve himself.
But he gives his all for the club and his teammates, doesn’t hide, attracts attention and thereby create space and has a decent finish on him.
If he can improve his technical ability and smarter in terms of using his qualities in a better way, I think we will be a good weapon to have.
I also thinks that his eagerness and self-confidence is a x-factor in terms of how high his ceiling is. He will work hard to improve himself.
A striker getting service and looking the part, who would have known..........
You know very well that's not what that is about. It should end the posts that he has no potential, that he is shit, that his hold-up play is bad and he always loses the duels (as you said), that he doesn't have what it takes, etc). In other words, it should end the poor posts that are written mindlessly with no context to the why's. He showed an excellent first touch tonight for his first goal, great striker instincts, and he also did the same when he scored against Brentford, so next time someone posts that his first touch is the worst of all PL strikers and cannot be improved upon, I will refer to this. Every player can improve every aspect, and development is not the same for any player.
He’s for sure a natural goal scorer. That finish for the 2nd is just pure instinct and he’s scored a few like that in his time here. Fantastic touch and finish. The work for our first goal was also brilliant.
That first half he probably could have had more goals if Malacia would just put in a cross instead of cutting back and waiting. He mad some brilliant runs in to wide open space and the ball just never came. We need to sort that.
That first half he probably could have had more goals if Malacia would just put in a cross instead of cutting back and waiting. He mad some brilliant runs in to wide open space and the ball just never came. We need to sort that.
Signs that the coaching staff are simplifying his game and making sure he's in the most dangerous positions. His game was crying out for this and hopefully it continues
Happy for him, but I feel like a lot of people are drawing conclusions from a game against a very poor side. Hopefully he shows more of the same against Everton.
Figure of speech, but it comes from you constantly having a go at Højlund and him alone, like he has done something to you personally. I get that fans have some players they don't rate more than others and are too hung up on certain players, but to me, it feels odd doing that to a very young player who is playing under a poor attacking team with little supply (Yes, I know he should take some of the blame and he has been poor, but those are still the facts). What we just saw was him having it in his locker. He needs to be nurtured and improve, work hard and develop under a good coach. The talent is certainly there, so maybe that part should be put to rest now.
He's a lethal finisher when he gets the chance. Just needs to improve his movement in the box, there were times Ugarte fed crosses centrally in the box and hojlund wasnt even there. But he got 2 goals so he's doing much better to be available in the right areas. Loved his celebration which seemed to trigger a few people, hope he keeps it.
Also would have had a tap in for the hat trick if Garnacho passed on one of our counter attacks
Lukaku for United; 96 games, 42 goals and 12 assists.
Those are pretty solid numbers, imo.
As i said; United fans mentioning Lukaku in bad context (performances wise) is really odd.
Noone has said he hasnt any talent, but many say he has not a big enough talent to be playing for United.. and even though he played very well yesterday i still dont believe he has.. but it was great to see him play like that, and i hope i am proven wrong..
I dont have anything against Højlund, in fact I loved his hunger and appetite after his first games for Denmark.. After a 3-2 loss, where he scored 2 goals, he was so angry that many feared he would knock down the reporter interviewing him after the game.. I saw some of it again in the game against Spain, so maybe he found the "angry" Rasmus again.
Lets see what happends in the future, its 1½ very good game, but it doesnt undo the bad games he had, but hopefully this is a new beginning for Højlund.
Glad he stepped up yesterday, I think he's a talent. Just need to provide for him and play to his strength...
Really good performance last night. Goals, pressing, hold up play. The full package. This system should help him massively; even more so when we have better wing backs.
What do you mean odd? the reason why he got sold was because we couldn't rely on him up front. Suddenly he couldn't even control the ball properly whilst he could do it with Everton and Chelsea (which he regained later on playing for Inter). He's quite wasteful up front near the end of his United career. I don't think Ole would have let go of him otherwise seeing how other players were enjoying football at the time.
So his spell at United isn't really a success. Otherwise he'd still be here and to be fair I did think of that after his first season. So I hope Hojlund is better than that. If I look at Gyokeres, Amorim's system rely on a goal scorer and the CF cannot be wasteful.
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Ive said it consistently you only need to look at the goals he scores to see his quality. He gets poachers goals, both feet, one v one, instinctive goals and capable of stuff like v galatasary. The main striker while being part of a poor set up is probably also the greatest victim of a poor attacking unit.
Im surprised by the criticism hojlund gets i think he can become a completely top level striker
Im surprised by the criticism hojlund gets i think he can become a completely top level striker
I didn't get to see the game but it looks like he did really well and was heavily involved in the game.
I hope he can kick on from this and start to make his presence felt on a weekly basis in the Premier League.
I hope he can kick on from this and start to make his presence felt on a weekly basis in the Premier League.
Bizarre player. He scores very high quality goals, but he’s 1 in 3 for us.
Hopefully there is a message from the manager to the squad to pump the ball into him rather than wait for the perfect movement or run. Some players make their own space in strange situations, and I think he’s got that in his locker.
The first goal was very good, not so sure he’d be able to score such a goal against better opposition but hopefully it’s a sign of things to come.
Whatever the situation, he has to play ahead of Zirkzee if the latter is deemed to be of more use as a no9 by the manager.
Hopefully there is a message from the manager to the squad to pump the ball into him rather than wait for the perfect movement or run. Some players make their own space in strange situations, and I think he’s got that in his locker.
The first goal was very good, not so sure he’d be able to score such a goal against better opposition but hopefully it’s a sign of things to come.
Whatever the situation, he has to play ahead of Zirkzee if the latter is deemed to be of more use as a no9 by the manager.
Amorim post-match yesterday highlighted exactly this...again an example of severe negligence from EtH.
I spotted it, many others spotted it. EtH is too concerned with worrying about which blade of grass his inverted RB is standing in when his left footed left sided CB has the ball to actually coach players on their fundamentals.
Coaching is about systems but it's also about working with individuals to overcome flaws in their game. I'd have been doing session after session with Hojlund zipping the ball into his feet with a defender behind him and practicing laying it off, one touch or two touch.
Credit where due, was a very good performance last night, with two very good goals for different reasons. I really hope he works out, but I haven’t been impressed on the whole since he’s been here. He has some tools though, whether that takes him beyond ‘good’ to ‘great’ remains to be seen.
It's incredible how good Hojlund actually is. His touches and movement were incredible last night.
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The Motm last night, second goal was fantastic and the first was also 90% on him.
Don't remember when was the last time when one of our attackers won a game by himself.
Don't remember when was the last time when one of our attackers won a game by himself.
Honestly because you and a few others seem to have an irrational urge to get on his back. Disagreement is fine, but when you come in here to slag him off and sarcastically claiming some of us are delusional every damn game we didn’t play well and it’s evident he’s suffering because the team is suffering - then you begin to wonder what motivates you.