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It's amazing how fast Hojlund is and he is also really lethal inside the penalty box. Absolutely incredible from this young man. Already double digits in terms of goals in his first season!
Find his shot stats for Atalanta.
It's amazing how fast Hojlund is and he is also really lethal inside the penalty box. Absolutely incredible from this young man. Already double digits in terms of goals in his first season!
I mean if you go through the second tweet.. this was from February so obviously needs a little updating
I imagine it's difficult to keep making runs when he knows people aren't looking for them.
Once we have a coached style of attacking play, rather than the moments fc we have right now I think it will be way easier for him. In other teams they have link up players who's first thought it to try to find the striker. I remember one of the matches we lost earlier in the season (I can't remember who) the opposition player said "As soon as I got the ball I looked up and played the pass without thinking - I know he will always make that run".
None of our wing options (Rashford, Garnacho, Anthony) think like that - their primary thought process is to look to cut inside and secondary is to pass it backwards if that isn't on, in the hope of getting it recycled back to them when it might be easier to cut inside.
His goals scored are quite boring to me.
Now we have some easier matches I'd like to see some Brazilian Ronaldo type play or goals. Sure its exaggerated but i think people know what i mean.
Maybe an Adriano long shot rather than only really scoring when the assist seems like it is probably the hardest part.
That's interesting. Although not sure we can blame lack of service for everything. His touches, shots, carries etc would all be higher if he lost the ball less often after it was passed to him. It's a struggle adapting to the PL where you get less time on the ball and referees are more lenient to defenders who barge into the back of attackers. You can definitely see that Hojlund has been getting a lot of rough treatment from defenders and finding it hard to retain possession with his back to goal. Yong and lernin though. All part of his adaptation to the league and will hopefully get better and better over time.
His goals scored are quite boring to me.
Now we have some easier matches I'd like to see some Brazilian Ronaldo type play or goals. Sure its exaggerated but i think people know what i mean.
Maybe an Adriano long shot rather than only really scoring when the assist seems like it is probably the hardest part.
His goals scored are quite boring to me.
Now we have some easier matches I'd like to see some Brazilian Ronaldo type play or goals. Sure its exaggerated but i think people know what i mean.
Maybe an Adriano long shot rather than only really scoring when the assist seems like it is probably the hardest part.
We need better wide attackers or we will never see the best of any striker here. The boy is capable of a 25 goal season but the team gives him absolutely nothing
Rashford and Antony need to leave and Garnacho and Amad need to be backups to two proper wide forwards.
No, we really don't you must've hated Van Nistelrooy and all his boring inside-the-box goals.His goals scored are quite boring to me.
Now we have some easier matches I'd like to see some Brazilian Ronaldo type play or goals. Sure its exaggerated but i think people know what i mean.
Maybe an Adriano long shot rather than only really scoring when the assist seems like it is probably the hardest part.
This isn't FIFA. Come on, how many players - let alone strikers - score the goals you want? And at 21/22. He can become more deadly in the box before we start asking him to dribble past two and curl one into the top corner from 25 yards.His goals scored are quite boring to me.
Now we have some easier matches I'd like to see some Brazilian Ronaldo type play or goals. Sure its exaggerated but i think people know what i mean.
Maybe an Adriano long shot rather than only really scoring when the assist seems like it is probably the hardest part.
He's not worth 72m and may well never be, but he's still worth at least 40 for his physical attributes. And i'm certain a proper attacking coach, someone like Ange, could get the best out of him.I've been one of Hojlunds biggest critics this season as I think he does some of the basics in this formation very poorly. However, there are flashes from him that I think he could be good in a better formation and set up. Hopefully, a better coach and manger next season will get the best out of him - well, they are going to have to in order to protect our investment. Another player who's suffering under ETH.
He's not worth 72m and may well never be, but he's still worth at least 40 for his physical attributes. And i'm certain a proper attacking coach, someone like Ange, could get the best out of him.
What about when he ran an entire half with the ball before chipping the keeper? Or when he nearly took the net off vs. Spurs?
Meh. Rashford has scored more beautiful goals from since he broke through.
Rashford has scored more beautiful goals in 9 seasons than Højlund has in a single season. Mindblowing.
Meh. Rashford has scored more beautiful goals from since he broke through.
Im not sure i want to build a team around Hojlund. It makes our inverted forwards a waste of time all to get just the best of a single player like Hojlund. Just as he gets no service from our wingers - he provides no support or creativity to our inverted forwards. Its ying & yang. This is why im excited to see Wheatley enter our first team squad because he looks more like a deep lying CF who can provide some service to our inverted forwards - basically replacing what Martial did for us/our inverted wingers in Ole season 2.
Hojlund is a good striker that can turn to a great striker but i'm not sure that i can see him achieving legendary status here just yet like RVP level never mind others like RVN or Rooney. Maybe somwhere between Tevez or Chicarito levels.
Hopefully he proves me wrong which I'm opened minded about. That goal he scored on his right foot low shot after feigning from his left was the best goal I've seen of him so far and want to see more goals like that.
So you havent actually seen Wheatley play?
To be fair at his age and given its only his second season in a top flight league his progression is about right. Unless he was some type of phenom.Massive improvement needed to be elite. Base on my eye test, he is 2 levels below top tier striker. I seriously hope that he get there in 2 years time. I would like him to be like Kane than Haaland.
He will defintely have more through balls than Hojlund to inverted forwards. Defintely more progressive passes.
Even his dribbling looks better than Hojlunds fast paced runs through the midfield runs.
Wheatley is pretty much the same template in style as Højlund before he joined us. Funny enough you could see Wheatley doing almost exactly the same type of runs as Rasmus....and also being ignored by Garnacho.
Our issue is our wingers, not our strikers.
No Wheatley either presses high or drops deep to collect the ball to feet which provides space for inverted wingers to make runs to the open space behind the defensive line.
His dribbling is also more press resistant so opens space up for inverted forwards to make runs through if he is able to beat a defender.
Hojlund runs like a powerful Lukaku that can beat 4 players at once by simply speed but could slip at any moment rather than having close ball control.
He even says Lukaku is one of his favourite players and i can see similarities within their game.
But he still can reach 20 G/A by the end of the season - it would’ve been a very good end product in his first year.He has regressed quite abit which tells you everything about this team.
But he still can reach 20 G/A by the end of the season - it would’ve been a very good end product in his first year.
He just needs 4 G/A in 6 matches, which is well within the realm of probability.