11
My opinion has always been we need a better more experienced striker and he needs to learn his trade without pressure. He is not the type to make his own chances like Martial at tha age.
I think that’s his role. To tussle and occupy centre backs and make aggressive runs into the 6 yard box between the defenders and turn them around. It’s a physical chaotic role in this side and then when nobody has been consistently able to find him he looks lost. I’d like to add that when any of our other attackers were hitting numbers Bruno was playing much better stuff finding them for fun and winning us matches. I hope Rasmus can strike up that level of partnership with Bruno
I think your opinion in the match day thread where you said he was shit and that anyone who thinks otherwise can do one is the real issue here. If your defence is 'it's the match day thread bro', well your posts in this performance thread is pretty much of the same rhetoric.
He is not good enough to be starter for us at the moment If the aspiration is to qualify for Ucl and compete for the league. I am obviously not God to say categorically he will never be a good striker but at the moment he is not good enough and unfortunately he has many in his company. I am not sure we have one certified player good enough to compete as part of a first 11 competing for the league anyway, so in that sense I might have been to harsh.
'Too harsh'. On the one hand, 'Utd = poor past 11 years therefore everybody angry mm kay', I understand. On the other, I don't think calling him a nothing player, a waste of money, categorically saying he's shit etc makes for good forum viewing, which adds to the basic/simplistic and toxic takes on here.
Crazy comment, you sometimes have to wonder if people are watching the same player.
Bloody hell didn’t we all have shouty moments like that aged 8 in the play yard? ”pass me the ball”, “right I’m going home and I’m taking my ball“. Dear God this club is really in the poo if that’s a true story.
Haaland has next to none ability to create his own chances.
He’s a tiny bit slower than Haaland going on stats and younger so still improving his power.
You’re right that he should improve in the air. You’re wrong about everything else. Especially as others have pointed out that he’s not pacy - I mean, are you sure you’re watching the right guy? He dribbled and outran Van de Ven, the fastest player in the league.
Yep, this has been happening more and more this season. I mentioned it earlier where 'bad habits' will easily creep in where he will stop making runs due to not getting the ball majority of the time. Or when he finally gets the ball played he will take extra touches to try and get that perfect scenario to score rather than hit it first time.
I will buy you a case of your preferred beer if Højlund ends on 20 goals. I'd be happy if he manages to get to 15, to be honest.
I mean, there's also a decent chance he gets injury today and that's his season done, but why not hope? 7 goals in 6 games was exactly what his last flurry was, so I'm just hoping for the same again.
Nothing wrong with hoping. I hope he scores a hattrick in the FA Cup final and Pep breaks down crying. I just find it pretty unlikely considering how few chances we create for him.
I think when he's confident he might find himself on the end of more scrappy chances, just as he did at the start of the year. But yeah, basically agreed on all counts.
which would surpass my expectation of his 1st season.
So far, he's the anti-Nunez.
That’s if you consider the ‘ability to create your own chances’ as solely dropping a shoulder and beating a man. Haaland got plenty of chances at City, Dortmund, Salzburg and Molde. Hojlund has shown to have very few attempts at Atalanta, Denmark and United. To his credit, he takes a very high percentage of what he does get though.
Find his shot stats for Atalanta.
I imagine it's difficult to keep making runs when he knows people aren't looking for them.
