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What chance did he have that he should have scored?
Who is talking about chances? Is he Pippo Inzaghi type whos role is only to wait in penalty box? He did nothing and offered nothing in last two games. Except scoring goals striker can win headers and duels, keep the ball and pass it to other players, position himself better in penalty box (Casemiro header for example and few situations vs Chelsea), dribble past defenders (he had few chances today and against Chelsea for that) and so on.
What did Rashford or Garnacho produce today? They were all just an out ball. Everybody on our team was cleaned by their marker and countered repeatedly. We hung on. It’s not Rasmus fault we had no control of the game. He had one half chance in the box sandwiched between two massive defenders from a speculative ball. You’re being overly dramatic as is the way on here since we became a mediocre run club
Because our fans are short sighted and can’t handle not winning for a few years after we’ve been run into the ground. Can’t wait to see the “best young striker in the world” posts again if we win the cup and he knicks a goal. We can all see he’s majorly promising but far from the finished product, which is totally natural.
We became a mediocre run club and fans adopted that way too. While we were top club excuses about "passion" and "running" didn't exist. Also excuses like "he was bad because other player was bad" also didn't exist. And they don't exist in any club which is winning stuff.
Bring back weghorst
I'm not sure that's true.
Couldn’t have said it any better
It’s four fecking games in a team that is all over the shop and he’s a kid coming back from injury? 100k from division 2? He’s very clearly a really top prospect for his position. You're being melodramatic.
I don’t think the majority have turned on him but we need an experienced number 9/10 who can play both positions, he has elite potential but he’s not sniffing obvious chances when balls fall in the 6 yard box, or he scores in patches, Ivan Toney, if we can get him for £60-65m is a must and at times we could play 4312 or 3412 we need more flexibility in our team patterns.
That's pretty basic stuff though. It's moments where he didn't make that run at the free kick and the moment he just completely lost where the ball was, when he was in possession of it, in the box that are the frustrating things from him. He wasn't alone today, no one could find each other with the attacking quartet and moves just broke down completely between them.
I think we've seen enough from Dalot to conclude what is his ceiling. Onana is a good keeper tbh, I like him
Dalot is very good full back. One of our rare players who can play in any top club.
It's basic but progressive and effective. Not something I would associate with many young players or strikers. Heck just look at our own team in Garnacho, Rashford, Bruno and Antony to see they don't play the 'easy' pass to the free man. Imagine if they would do the same to Hojlund instead of looking for their own or playing illogical 1% chance balls. This 'basic' stuff should be the standard but it's really not, especially for a young player playing in such a dysfunctional set up; that's why it's underrated and 'impressive' for me, which shouldn't be swept under the carpet. Similar to the way Mainoo is doing the right things rather than hollywooding it in midfield.
That's true, I do think he sometimes lacks the awareness to make these passes quicker, but as you say, at least he's looking for them.
Isak at the same age had 10 goals in 41 appearences for Sociedad, Isak's numbers are actually not great at all when you look at the overall picture before Newcastle.
Apart from that one goal where he goes on to play guitar with his leg, there really isn't anything that impressive in the video.
Nope, He played the entire match and only had 10 passes. God knows why ETH even kept him on.
Because people wanted the big name.
The idea any striker would at the minute is hilarious, we do not create chances it's that simple
Whilst you may have a point about him being young and playing in a rubbish team, this line: "He’s very clearly a really top prospect for his position" isn't true at all. There's nothing very clear about that at this point in time. The jury is very much still out
At united you need to be better than what Hojlund is at whatever age, we are not a selling for profit club. You don’t come to united as a starter to learn on the job, simple
Club don't kind of agree with you , United took long term view with his acquisition and I hope they stay the course and bring the next forward keeping that in mind .
I agree we shouldn't be so heavily reliant on him but with your attitude you're basically saying we should stop buying youth players altogether and only focus on buying superstars at older ages.
I agree. The only thing I would say is that there hasn't been a complete lack of service. Yesterday, Rashford whipped in a couple of great balls which he should have been on. Same with the chance Garnacho sent across the box, which, to be fair, he slipped for. I'm not McTominay's biggest fan, but I think he would have been alive to those chances. This will all come with maturity, but we can't go into next season with him the only number 9. He's not yet good enough.
