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2024-25 Performances

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4.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
49
Goals
10
Assists
2
Yellow cards
2
It's often said about strikers that it doesn't matter if they're missing chances, the main thing is they're in the right place to receive them. My big concern with Hojlund is that he barely ever gets a shooting opportunity.

When he scored early against Leicester, you're thinking great, he could get two or even three goals here now his confidence is up and he's playing against a weak team. But he never came close to scoring again, I don't even recall him having another chance.

It's a shade tragic that we brought a central defender on for the last five minutes of a match and he registered both more shots and more shots on target in those five minutes than our two strikers combined had managed in the entire game :lol:
 
DWelbz19 said:
How many shots has he had in that time total, let alone on target? He’s still the very bottom 1 percentile for shots per 90 in the last 365 days in the PL.

Such a fundamental glaring weakness that just can’t be fixed. The league quality is too good and the defenders are too fast and strong for Hojlund to be able to get shots away.
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His profile on Fbref for the PL this season is a pitiful read. @Bobski made me look at his defensive stats, they seem worse than what Rashford and Martial used to provide. There have always been strikers in the league who aren't good goalscorers, but they at least ran around a bit and gave something defensively. Hojlund offers nothing in either attack or defense. We might be witnessing the worst performance from a striker in the PL in a long time.
 
This guy is absolutely useless right now.
Im not seeing signs that he's ever gonna be better either
We really should give a youth striker a chance, Rasmus is that bad.
 
Idxomer said:
His profile on Fbref for the PL this season is a pitiful read. @Bobski made me look at his defensive stats, they seem worse than what Rashford and Martial used to provide. There have always been strikers in the league who aren't good goalscorers, but they at least ran around a bit and gave something defensively. Hojlund offers nothing in either attack or defense. We might be witnessing the worst performance from a striker in the PL in a long time.
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I couldn't believe his defensive stats when I saw them, 1 tackle won all season? Seriously?

People have consistently said "He is working hard, teammates letting him down" but if he is working hard I don't see any stats to show it, as I mentioned maybe his pressing numbers are elite but I don't know were to find them. Possibly his inability to be in the right place is not just impeding his attacking play. But as it is, not goal threat, not a creator, terrible in the air, not an effective defensive forward, invisible in his own box and struggles to get involved in general play.

All told, his performances this season outside of the Europa League are impossibly poor.
 
For everyone who still use service excuse i advise to rewatch extended highlights of City game. His positioning and anticipation in penalty box is absolutely atrocious for any pro player nevermind striker.
Especially on crosses. We had a lot of crosses and some of them were pretty good. While other players at least go for it (Case, Zirkzee, central defenders) he doesn't even try or is in position for it. He is always standing behind defender and never bothers to even jump which gives defender free and clean header to clear the danger. What is he thinking there? That defender will miss free header?

Chicharito is prime example what good positioning can do. He was small fecker but still managed to be at the end of crosses. Aguero, Rooney, Tevez.....also were not tall players but they all scored headers.
Then there is Maguire. Guy is often in chance in penalty box but not (only) because he is tall. He has that instinct how to move and where. It is sad thing when your striker doesn't have that trait.

PL is just not a league for him.
 
Syphon Wallet said:
This guy is absolutely useless right now.
Im not seeing signs that he's ever gonna be better either
We really should give a youth striker a chance, Rasmus is that bad.
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I don't see a point giving him minutes anymore in PL. Whoever have him on their radar will not change his mind based on some brace in last 7 games. And it is quite obvious that he needs to leave.
It would be better to give run of games to Chido and use Zirkzee in EL.
 
I used to do the 'awful player but works hard' thing but either I was an idiot or his effort level has fallen off a cliff.

There's absolutely no excuse for a 6'3 forward to be:
  • 32nd out of 32 strikers (with more than 300 minutes played) for aerial duel win %. There are multiple 5'7 players with a far higher percentage.
He's sitting at a ridiculous 22% in the league this season. Watching him, he doesn't even pretend to challenge for a header physically. He just grinds and twerks on whichever man is contesting with him. There was a 70/30 ball into the box from Dorgu at the weekend. Hojlund definitely wasn't favourite but there was a chance. He didn't even jump for it. He ducked behind his man. Happens routinely.

His ground duels aren't any better. He recently went on a run of winning 1/18.

He's had 1 successful tackle in the league all season and - even more ridiculous - ZERO interceptions. Zirkzee had 1 of each in his 18 minute cameo at the weekend.

Genuinely think he's the laziest player in the league at this point and it goes so under the radar.
 
He got 10 goals in premier league last system at 21, Amorim makes all our players worse so I’d blame Amorim over Hojlund. Not suited to Amorims system whatsoever. At a club like Brighton or forest wouldn’t be surprised if he hit 15 a season. Harry Kane in this system would struggle, might be better technically to spread the ball and assists but would still struggle. Hojlund should go on loan somewhere for a season, preferably a newly promoted side so no pressure.
 
honirelandboy said:
He got 10 goals in premier league last system at 21, Amorim makes all our players worse so I’d blame Amorim over Hojlund. Not suited to Amorims system whatsoever. At a club like Brighton or forest wouldn’t be surprised if he hit 15 a season. Harry Kane in this system would struggle, might be better technically to spread the ball and assists but would still struggle. Hojlund should go on loan somewhere for a season, preferably a newly promoted side so no pressure.
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Well, this is new excuse. So, system based on poacher is at fault why our poacher can't even get in chance. Last 4 games we had 20 shots per game. That is 80 shots. Hojlund had one.
Yeah, it is Amorim's fault.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
For everyone who still use service excuse i advise to rewatch extended highlights of City game. His positioning and anticipation in penalty box is absolutely atrocious for any pro player nevermind striker.
Especially on crosses. We had a lot of crosses and some of them were pretty good. While other players at least go for it (Case, Zirkzee, central defenders) he doesn't even try or is in position for it. He is always standing behind defender and never bothers to even jump which gives defender free and clean header to clear the danger. What is he thinking there? That defender will miss free header?

Chicharito is prime example what good positioning can do. He was small fecker but still managed to be at the end of crosses. Aguero, Rooney, Tevez.....also were not tall players but they all scored headers.
Then there is Maguire. Guy is often in chance in penalty box but not (only) because he is tall. He has that instinct how to move and where. It is sad thing when your striker doesn't have that trait.

PL is just not a league for him.
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General criticism of him might get valid but not in the City game. No CF is looking good in that game.

We didn't have the ball in the opposition third anywhere near enough for any CF to be criticised.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
Well, this is new excuse. So, system based on poacher is at fault why our poacher can't even get in chance. Last 4 games we had 20 shots per game. That is 80 shots. Hojlund had one.
Yeah, it is Amorim's fault.
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He is in the bottom 1 percentile for shots and touches in the attacking penalty box by forwards across Europe. He averages 2.91 touches per 90 mins in the opposition box, Maguire is at 2.30, Dorgu on a small sample size is at 4.44.

Its far worse than people who only see his goal total think.
 
He definitely needs to be loaned out as his game is lacking in so many areas.
 
Marwood said:
General criticism of him might get valid but not in the City game. No CF is looking good in that game.

We didn't have the ball in the opposition third anywhere near enough for any CF to be criticised.
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And yet Zirkzee in 20 minutes did much better and was more involved than Hojlund.
 
honirelandboy said:
He got 10 goals in premier league last system at 21, Amorim makes all our players worse so I’d blame Amorim over Hojlund. Not suited to Amorims system whatsoever. At a club like Brighton or forest wouldn’t be surprised if he hit 15 a season. Harry Kane in this system would struggle, might be better technically to spread the ball and assists but would still struggle. Hojlund should go on loan somewhere for a season, preferably a newly promoted side so no pressure.
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The idea that Kane would struggle is absurd. He's an elite level striker that has done it all in the PL; he has great postitioning and is a world class finisher. Hojlund has done sweet feck all to deserve a starting spot and should be sold as soo as possible.
 
I find it so funny when people write that he works hard and tries hard. He is the laziest player in the team definitely.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
And yet Zirkzee in 20 minutes did much better and was more involved than Hojlund.
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Did you think we played the same as a team in the final 20 mins compared to the first 70?

You can't watch that game, whilst Hojlund was on the pitch and think as a team we gave the CF any kind of platform.

How can any No.9 do anything when the teams goal seems to be how often can we recycle possession around the back line.
 
Actually thought he did pretty well with what he was given but at times I feel like he is too eager to get in. I do think that is part of his instruction to pull the back line deep and leave space behind for others. He mentioned it, Bruno mentioned it and so did Ruben.

But sometimes surely he can just hold back and wait for the attack to develop so he can actually attack a ball. He makes good runs but timing can be off and sometimes when the ball doesn’t come to him or where he was heading he doesn’t change course.

Like yesterday he makes a run expecting Bruno to slip him in which maybe he should have but he didn’t, Bruno fed in to Dorgu but instead of realising that now the only goal scoring oppertunity is back post or behind me he just keep moving front post towards Dorgu.

Things like that he does need to improve but generally thought he was alright. Did a job, just wasn’t the job most of us want him to do.
 
Thing is his teammates don't really trust or rate him. It's usually the case when as player consistently records really low touches with the ball. This is the case because he also doesn't really trust himself, I have been very critical of Garnacho but you just need to compare them anytime they get on the ball. Garnacho body language is hurt the opponent, Hojlund body language is don't feck this up.
I know that Maguire cameo vs Forest is not the way football is played over 90mins but you can see how the players are confident Maguire can cause the opponent issues by looking for him when they have the ball.
It's just not that way with Hojlund, the team aren't trying to find him in favourable positions because they don't know what that means for Hojlund.
 
Anyone who replaces him as a sub instantly makes more of an impact. Whether it's Zirkzee or Harry Maguire.

Roll on the summer when we'll flog this lad to some crap foreign club for £20m
 
85 games for the club.

Forget the goal record, how many games have you come away thinking Hojlund looked a good footballer? 5? at a stretch?

Tonight is standard Hojlund, anonymous for the most part but when in the game it would probably have been better if he wasn't.

Zikrzee at least has talent with a football, Hojlund shows almost nothing again.
 
2 completed passes and no duels won... and he played for over an hour! If we don't get rid in the summer we'll waste another season.
 
Yeah a nothing performance. For some reason I remember he was lightning quick when he joined but he now seems to have lost that.
 
The team look 10 times worse with him on the pitch he offers nothing

Zirkzee comes on and we are instantly better his all round play is miles ahead of Hojlund

Terrible player I don’t know how we get transfers wrong time after time
 
He was woeful, can’t even do the basics. Has to be moved on in the summer, even if just in loan initially.
 
No chance we find a buyer for him, who the hell would want him? We're stuck with him.
 
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