It's real. I had to go to his account to double check.Is that actually real?
absolutely savage from him if so
9
Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 19
- Goals
- 7
- Assists
- 1
- Yellow cards
- 1
Thought he was fine. Was actually just completely isolated today. There were a few moments where I wanted us to put in a cross but then I realized that Hojlund was literally the only United player in the box while we had 5 players dallying around the edge. Hard as a striker when noone else is moving off the ball.
Hold up play was so so when he did get the ball. Should have won a pen and played a wonderful pass to Bruno. Utterly rubbish in the air though which is crazy for his size.
Hold up play was so so when he did get the ball. Should have won a pen and played a wonderful pass to Bruno. Utterly rubbish in the air though which is crazy for his size.
I wonder what age he became tall, you'd think probably quite young but he plays like a guy who never had height to work with growing up
Proper United player.
Im a big fan
I’ve not been the biggest fan of him but today he did so much better in his general play and his ability to get himself into the game.
Normally if he isn’t scoring then he’s a ghost but he put himself about far more than in any game I’ve seen in a while. Should’ve had an assist too.
Normally if he isn’t scoring then he’s a ghost but he put himself about far more than in any game I’ve seen in a while. Should’ve had an assist too.
About as obvious a penalty as you'll see. That call should be investigated.
Im liking angry Rasmus
He was good today.
Didn't see the game but from the highlights he looked like he was very much invovled in the attack throughout and played a great through ball to Bruno which bruno should have finished and was unlucky not to get a penalty. He's looking a lot better under Amorim and he's looking hungry and ultra aggressive
I've been critical of him but if he keeps performing and being a nuisance in these kind of big games, then he deserves to have faith. It's never been about the goals for me, but his all round play, movement and link up which has been previously poor in important games, but he is definitely showing signs of improvement in those areas which is super encouraging and hopefully he continues showing consistency in those area of his game and goes on to prove me and other doubters wrong who have justifiably whether he's cut out to be our main man up top
I've been critical of him but if he keeps performing and being a nuisance in these kind of big games, then he deserves to have faith. It's never been about the goals for me, but his all round play, movement and link up which has been previously poor in important games, but he is definitely showing signs of improvement in those areas which is super encouraging and hopefully he continues showing consistency in those area of his game and goes on to prove me and other doubters wrong who have justifiably whether he's cut out to be our main man up top
Should've had an assist and a penalty
On another day he has an assist from a great through ball and wins a penalty. Thought it was a decent performance, where in periods he didn't have a lot to work with.
He seems to be improving after a pretty rough start to the season.
He seems to be improving after a pretty rough start to the season.
Yeah I like feisty Hojlund. Was also street smart enough not to push his head forward into Walkers.
The whole team need to start raising the temperature in games and getting peoples faces. Stop being push overs.
The whole team need to start raising the temperature in games and getting peoples faces. Stop being push overs.
He was good today. Get the sense he is growing in confidence under Amorim.
Was more involved than Haaland
Like day and night. He has improved a lot, credit to him. He's become a real nuisance to defenders
Had a couple of really good moments, one bad one for the city goal. Yes it was a tough game but his hold up play needs to be more consistent. Sometimes it's like he's on skates. He also has the wrong mindset for aerial duels.
Hojlund was actually in the perfect position as the ball was coming in, but misjudged the flight of the ball and took a couple of steps forward so he was in line with Dalot instead of behind him. Then the ball went over both of their heads to the exact spot Hojlund had vacated. I'd put it mostly on him, although the deflection obviously does make it more difficult to judge the flight of the ball.
Someone said he plays like he got his height last week. 
Perfect analysis, he needs to learn how to pin defenders down. His timing is all off, makes him look like Psycho Sid on a football pitch.
Perfect analysis, he needs to learn how to pin defenders down. His timing is all off, makes him look like Psycho Sid on a football pitch.
You can see it with both Dalot and Højlund actually, they both take an intuitive step forward when the ball is hit, are then perplexed for a millisecond, and then jump but are chanceless because the ball comes down behind them with a sharp dip.
It’s simply the natural response to how the cross seems to come in based on De Bruyne’s body movement, and then how long the brain takes to percieve the new ball trajectory after the deflection. It’s not something to blame either player for tbh, it’s just a fluke.
Been saying that heading is his weak spot since he came. But wrong mindset? Where do you get that from?
Gave them trouble all night long. Trolled that cnut Walker after the game too. A complete performance.
He had a good game yesterday, but the best thing was that it seems that his fire is back in him.. In his first few games for Denmark he had a fire in his eyes when on the pitch, since then it has totally disapeared, until the Denmark game against Spain and has shown it a few times for United after that game too.. Can he keep that up it will only help his game..
It wasn’t a fluke or anything to do with the deflection. Or else why did Gvardiol have no problem getting to the ball? When the ball travel’s that far after a deflection there’s plenty of time to adjust. It’s a recurring theme with Dalot. Did the exact same thing for Forest’s first goal. And basically every corner into his zone. He is constantly mistiming his jumps and getting under the ball.
We all know Hojlund isn’t as strong in the air as he should be for his height but it’s less of an issue for him as a striker than it is for Dalot. It’s not ideal though. And is a factor in us being so poor at defending set-pieces.
Starting to warm up to him. He’s becoming more allround and becomes more important in a variety of ways.
Good - 2 very different- goals against Plzen last week.
Yesterday he didn’t score and had a tough time initially, very lonely up top and often surrounded by blue. But kept working hard, kept having faith and that pass to Bruno was class.
The little clash with Walker to me shows that’s he’s becoming more of a warrior and we definitely need that, from him in general and for the team.
It’s interesting to remember he’s already here for 1.5 years. I think for many players it really just takes time to adapt to the intensity of the league. Hopefully he will really keep it up now. We could definitely use that, and meanwhile helps to lower the pressure on Zirkzee
Good - 2 very different- goals against Plzen last week.
Yesterday he didn’t score and had a tough time initially, very lonely up top and often surrounded by blue. But kept working hard, kept having faith and that pass to Bruno was class.
The little clash with Walker to me shows that’s he’s becoming more of a warrior and we definitely need that, from him in general and for the team.
It’s interesting to remember he’s already here for 1.5 years. I think for many players it really just takes time to adapt to the intensity of the league. Hopefully he will really keep it up now. We could definitely use that, and meanwhile helps to lower the pressure on Zirkzee
Disagree on this point pal. I actually think Dalot is decent in the air compared to other fullbacks. The stats prove this too. He's in the top 20% for percentage of headers won. Before Mazraoui joined, I would have told you Dalot was our best fullback in the air. The Setpiece issue is quite misleading. We've conceded 8 in total, but more importantly, 4 since the Arsenal game. It's one of the few areas we've gotten worse at, post -ETH. To me, it's more a structural problem than it is our defenders losing headers.
Hojlund on the other hand is in the bottom 30 percent for forwards, has always been bad at headers even before since before he joined us.
Its one of the reasons Onana's kicks are aimed towards going off the pitch, deep in opposition half. Because if you aim for Hojlund, only one thing is happening, it's coming right back. The lack of a focal point is a much bigger problem.
Have to say the Dalot stats are a surprise. He has a great leap so should be winning lots of headers but recently I keep noting how often he misses them. If his stats are that good then maybe a short term blip. Or just one of those minor issues about a player you can get hung up on. It’s really been bugging me though!
Mike Dean on Sky commentary piped up with.
"I don't think that's enough, not in a game like this mate"
Should’ve gotten a penalty + created a big chance for Bruno. Handled a big game well. Just a really good performance imo.
Absolutely outrageous. Tackles Hojlund around hip height, gets nowhere near the ball and prevents a goal scoring opportunity.
They seem to have erased any mention of this, that line of Deans itself needs investigating… what the feck does it even mean?
Astonishing. They made their mind up before any replay then doubled down and down. Its a stone wall penalty.
Around 1.30 on the sky highlights.
Basically he means there's a higher threshold for what is and isn't a foul in bigger games. Which we all know is how the games are refereed anyway.
Should have had a clear penalty, and that pass to Bruno I thought I was seeing a little something new from Hojlund there.. so he can clearly work that kind of play, we just need to see it consistently. Said it before, even though I think Gyokeres and Hojlund are not 100% the same type of player, they have similar characteristics, and Amorim can clearly work his strikers, if Amorim can't get a tune out of Hojlund then maybe we start to look elsewhere. But in these very early days he looks like he is getting something out of him, even if that's just bringing back the fire to him when he and the team before Amorim were clearly down.
Goals, should have assists, and a penalty, drive, aggression, all in the last few games. It's not bad for a young striker at his age. Get him in there with Diallo, get a rapport going, they're both young enough.
Goals, should have assists, and a penalty, drive, aggression, all in the last few games. It's not bad for a young striker at his age. Get him in there with Diallo, get a rapport going, they're both young enough.
You sound awfully certain, and based on dubious generalization. For me as a formar football player, I know how basic it is to take the first step or not based on how the ballstrike appears, and how visually, the mind may use as much as a half second to reinterpret a ball trajectory based on looking at the ball. Perception studies confirms how and why this is often so. So for you to dismiss out of hand that it didn’t play a part sounds illogical and strangely cocksure.
That one player may act more reactive in a situation than another is not so strange, particularily when the aim is to get ahead of the other for what will normally be a straight ball path. Diaz is behind Dalot, and remains thus even though he also takes a step forward, only a few tenths of a second after. The ball’s trajectory ends up being a perfect dip cross for where he is positioned to begin with. The only way for Dalot and Højlund to compete with him for that ball, is if they anticipate early the ball trajectory to move backwards/sideways immediately. To me, it’s plain sense that the deflection is what sets them off that possibility, and then it’s already too late.
Dalot isn’t as bad at timing defensive headers that you claim, statistically he is quite good, and even this game, it was his anyicipation and timing that made him clear just ahead of the opponents City’s two most dangerous crosses of the game barring the goal. Højlund is another matter.
The whole “former footballer” thing comes off as patronising, to be honest. I also played football. I still play competitive sports. I’m well aware how a deflection can mess you up. I just think that all three of the players competing for the ball had plenty of time to adjust. And it was no surprise (to me anyway) that both Dalot and Hojlund mistimed their jumps, while Gvardiol timed his perfectly.
Same reason a lofted (and not deflected) cross from Doku a few minutes later saw Dalot get caught under the ball again and Bernardo Silva (all five foot nothing of him) got his head to the ball instead. Dalot may have good stats for heading the ball. He has a great leap so you’d expect him to win a lot of headers but he definitely has a habit of mistiming his jumps. Watch him closely and you’ll notice it too.
That refs have a high ceiling for making dubious calls in tight games, I can understand. That english refs have one eye on entertainment value to allow more fighting in certain games to acrue more drama, is dubious in itself IMO.
But the ‘he should fall in a particular way’-logic they sometimes seem to imply when not giving pens for something that is blatantly a hindrance and nothing else, is just stupid. If you hit a player at speed with your fot across his knees without touching the ball, it should be a stonewall penalty, not depending on if the player makes a wonderful Walker-esque impersonation of a sean dying or not.
The great Mike Dean said it was a “genuine attempt at the ball” aren’t 99% of penalties genuine attempts. Also he said the bar is higher in these games which sounds very strange to me. It’s a penalty or it isn’t and that was a penalty.
Thats exactly what he means and its complete BS. Referees sometimes allow a little more before cards come out in the big games because they don't want to ruin them early and they understand the stakes and the jitters the players might have.
You don't ignore a stonewall penalty in the meat of the game though because its a big game. Thats just BS. I reckon 75% of penalties given this season are softer than than one. That was a penalty every day of the week.