One thing that has struck me watching the Prem recently (and particularly people like Haaland) is the desire they show – when Haaland makes a run he commits to it 110%, full sprint and you can see he's determined to beat the defender.
Similarly I saw Jesus score a tap-in the other day where he out-battled the defender to win the ball, purely because he wanted it more.
You rarely see that with our lot in League One. Other than Dobson, there is a kind of lethargy to the play. Feels like players give you 70-80% rather than 110%. Perhaps that's why they're not top players.
I think the reality (other than the youth players that have come through) is that they really are only doing it for the money, they’re playing in league one and part of them probably feels they have failed to some extent. Merry Christmas.
Not me who placed this bet unfortunately and hindsight is a wonderful thing but I suspect that the trader who offered these odds might be feeling a bit embarrassed - after all even before he kicked a ball in the PL, would you have been confident that had Haaland played for 100 seasons he wouldn't score 40 over the course of one of them?
Not only is he extremely quick over ten yards but he definitely has a knack of using his exceptionally long legs by lunging at the ball, whilst diving horizontally feet first for crosses. I swear to god this gives him an extra yard or so advantage over defenders. A bit too early to say but are we looking at the next World Super Star….quite possibly. And who better than Kevin De Bruyne to help him out with that in mind.
Not me who placed this bet unfortunately and hindsight is a wonderful thing but I suspect that the trader who offered these odds might be feeling a bit embarrassed - after all even before he kicked a ball in the PL, would you have been confident that had Haaland played for 100 seasons he wouldn't score 40 over the course of one of them?
The Haaland family have now scored as many goals for Manchester City (21) as the Brightwell family, though the Brightwells have more women's 800m gold medals from the Olympics.
Edit TBF the Brightwells did play nearly 400 games for city.
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He's scored 14 league goals, we've scored 15.
He's scored 3 in 3 in the cups, we've scored 5 in 3.
Haaland makes an incredibly enthusiastic well timed run to beat the offside trap while playing for Charlton!
Only for it to be an incredible waste of time anyway as Charlton just got dispossessed
Ted Drake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Villa_1–7_Arsenal_(14_December_1935)
Merry Christmas.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LadyD_sports/status/1576947195055439872/photo/1
I swear to god this gives him an extra yard or so advantage over defenders.
A bit too early to say but are we looking at the next World Super Star….quite possibly.
And who better than Kevin De Bruyne to help him out with that in mind.
Edit TBF the Brightwells did play nearly 400 games for city.
Getting silly now.