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2024-25 Performances

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5.4 Season Average Rating
Appearances
19
Goals
7
Assists
1
Yellow cards
1
RedIan said:
His first touch is poor, his attempts to control a long ball with his back to goal to hold up play more times than not lead to him loosing possession. The ball bounces off his first touch rather than sticking to him.
Hes a raw fast centre forward who can finish but he is clearly lacking in other areas.
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and when he does control it he holds onto it for way too long and ends up losing possession... he just doesn't seem to think fast enough when on the ball, which is mad considering how clinical he is in front of goal.
 
IN GENERAL, not just with Rasmus, not getting enough service it's not the perfect excuse, because at some point you have the ball and you have to not only try to do sthg. on your own, you have to actually produce sthg. more often than not.
Also pressuring, even if it's useful per se, actually adds another dimension when the player actually steals the ball regularly with such actions.
For instance Erling have been quite bad prior to this last match, not only because City didn't provide enough service (or play to his strengths, BTW they rarely did that since his arrival a la Dortmund days), but because he mostly was too estatic, a bit to casual with the little service he got and not productive enough.
In his last game he didn't score, but he found better pockets of space, he was more calm with the ball, he was more agressive and intelligent with his movement and he played a very good game without scoring and even assisted.

As a side note, City as a team that usually has the ball a lot, many times makes people think that the strikers have tons of chances galore because they are focus on that, that they play to their strengths and it's not the entirely the case. Traditionally in City chances arrive almost for anyone as a product of volume, of the pressure that Pep puts on players to give it all and do specific tasks in specific matches, but barely because they play to the strengths not only of some player, of even some role. City is weird in such regard, people it's too simplistic regarding them.

And finally, if he actually is a pure goalscorer, more like a poacher, or it's what best suits him...any club that pays 70 millions for him, even with the caveat and responsabilities any player must embrace written at the beggining, they HAVE to at least try to play to the player strengths (Pep it's Pep, an anomaly), if not, why the feck you buy Chicarito expecting to dribble his way to score, or Palermo and not constantly serving balls for him to head, etc. etc.
This doesn't happen in United with many players, many roles, because since time it does not function properly as a team and asks to many times things to some players that to the very least will requiere an adaptation or would never happen because they just can't be that player.
 
The thing is, what type of service is ideally suited to finding Hojlund constantly on the end of?

  • Razor sharp movement to balls coming across the face? No, Garnacho put a beaut in yesterday with the outside of his right foot that Hojlund didn't anticipate.
  • Strong in the air to attack crosses? No.
  • Great movement into channels to gets shots off? Not really, again many of his runs are a step too slow to begin.
What is his signature strength in that regard that teams have to guard against?

A really good, maybe great finisher but the movement needs to develop rapidly.
 
Always seems to be struggling to last past 70 mins, he was knackered and had given up attempting to press with any intensity by that stage again last night
 
Bobski said:
The thing is, what type of service is ideally suited to finding Hojlund constantly on the end of?

  • Razor sharp movement to balls coming across the face? No, Garnacho put a beaut in yesterday with the outside of his right foot that Hojlund didn't anticipate.
  • Strong in the air to attack crosses? No.
  • Great movement into channels to gets shots off? Not really, again many of his runs are a step too slow to begin.
What is his signature strength in that regard that teams have to guard against?

A really good, maybe great finisher but the movement needs to develop rapidly.
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When we got Hojlund, we got him as a long-term project. He is still quite young and didn't get benefit of good coaching. We need to give him time unfortunately.

Having said that, he is not the most technical player in the world and will never be.
 
JBG said:
He should've been our backup CF who's learning from an experienced CF in his prime, not our first choice. But I do think he has a future here still.
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Yeah, when we bought him he was 19? and had less than 100 appearances in club football. I have no issues with his price, but we really need that striker (like a Cavani/Zlatan/Ronaldo) where Hoijlund would either learn from ,or play with on occasion (or come on to replace).

I do think he has strengths and has shown that in his first campaign especially in the CL. I do think Amorims system is about trying to create chances for our forward players. Hoijlund reminds me of early Lukaku in that its better when hes not got his back to goal but better running channels, or being found in the box

I know people will say hes not anticipating crosses and his movement can be suspect, but I remember when he had his first few games for us, his movement was decent but he wasnt getting the ball. It got to the point where he stopped making those runs especially when the ball was out wide.
 
He can't play the target man and should stop trying to do so.

He's got the pace and the variety of finishing, should look to be more of a Haaland than a Drogba.
 
He needs time and proper coaching. Emphasis on "proper" which he should receive now with a decent coach.

If we can get someone experienced to lead the line then it takes the pressure of Hojlund and allows him some breathing space to grow into the role. Something he's not allowed to do at the moment
 
Man Utd 2:3 Nottingham Forest New
Nice tap in. Then feck all. This man adds zero to our attacking play.
 
Thought he had plenty of service today but still really struggled to get in to the game. Even though he scored it was a really dissapointing performance.

Scored a tap in that my grandma could score off garnacho's shot bouncing off the goalkeeper right to his feet but really struggled as a striker to find any sort of positioning.

Chris Wood was the better striker today.

Hojlund's best play of the match apart from the tap in was tracking back in the first half and stopping a forest attack. Then absolutely nothing else.

I really struggle to see it with him & i wish he could prove me wrong - but when Rashford scores 2 goals in a match and people still talk about his poor performance overall in that game - Hojlund scoring a relatively simple tap in wont convince me that this was a good performance.

Personally i'd start Zirkzee or Rashford as our striker. Our biggest loss is we lose some of our pressing.
 
Counted about 5-6 services to him when he could not even connect due to bad positioning or bad runs. Good goal though. For a striker that's oxygen.
 
He's fecking dreadful and a few tap-ins every now and then ain't gonna change that.
 
Scored but very little else and add almost nothing to the creative actions of the team.
 
The commentator mentioned he has had 5 shots in 5 premier league games. It’s soo bad, you can only just laugh.
 
Really lucky to stay on over Garnacho. Offered nothing other than the goal and that was a tap in.
 
Aside from the easy tap in goal after Garnacho's feck up, Hojlund has another poor game. You could see the gulf in difference in quality between him and Wood on the other end.
 
Amorim seems to like him. He scores every second chance but works hard not to get at the end of those.

Seeing him back to goal game is almost funny. Receives the ball in good position, takes 3 touches to control the ball, then passes back to CBs.
 
Did he bottle that chance made by Garnacho in the 1st chance ?
I felt he could've got his head to it .
 
It makes very sad when I remember how Cavani used his movement to get into goal-scoring positions, and then you watch Rasmus...
 
despite the tap in goal, did nothing in the whole game to trouble the defenders, not pro active enough definitely will not be starter next season
 
Utter trash, tap in aside he loses possession, is nowhere to be seen whenever we get an attack and he isn't the best passer of a ball either.
 
CannibalSpectre said:
Aside from the easy tap in goal after Garnacho's feck up, Hojlund has another poor game. You could see the gulf in difference in quality between him and Wood on the other end.
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Leaving aside the obvious fact that Wood has more than a decade of experience on Rasmus this is still an inane comment. Wood is a very limited target man style of forward who is only truly effective if you set up your team to play to his few strenghths and only the likes of Burnley and Forest will do that. In our team he would look exactly like Wout Weghorst.
 
Thought he was alright in the first. Very poor in the second.

But he is improving. His movement of when to drop and when to get forward looked a lot better, so he was more involved.

His in the box movement on the other hand needs work, or just a better understanding between him and other players of what they intend to do. Too many "they square it, he checks his run, they cut it back, he runs ahead instead".

He'll do better as the season goes on, I imagine.
 
jem said:
It makes very sad when I remember how Cavani used his movement to get into goal-scoring positions, and then you watch Rasmus...
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Cavani was unbelievable with his movement

When he signed it was so refreshing to watch an intelligent striker
 
Gandalf said:
Leaving aside the obvious fact that Wood has more than a decade of experience on Rasmus this is still an inane comment. Wood is a very limited target man style of forward who is only truly effective if you set up your team to play to his few strenghths and only the likes of Burnley and Forest will do that. In our team he would look exactly like Wout Weghorst.
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Mate Chris Wood was doing bits for Burnley at Hojlunds age, I really don't see the difference between them, in fact woods has a better catalogue of goals at the same age as Hojlund
 
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