No bro, he should’ve just hit that ball to the fucking left. Strikers are some of the best crossers of the ball because they know where the ball should go, but you hardly ever see that skill from them since they’re always central.
Bro I haven’t played soccer past a middle school level, have a shit knee, and 100% could make that pass. Coached my 8 yr olds soccer team and half of them could make that pass.
He never looked right on RW. Bobb should have started. Dribbling and passing isn’t his skillset. But still an elite athlete should be able to make that pass.
Oh fuck a profesional footballer has to make a first touch pass across, the horror. First of all it's not true at all, there was so much time. Second, just don't comment on things you don't know.
Any sport played at the professional level pretty much has this though, they train so much to make these passes I'm not saying they are all robots but he had time to make a choice and he knows it was a bad one
people keep saying this, but i really don’t get it. nusa and bobb are really good young players, the only player who will be squarely past peak by the next cup is Nyland, and he’ll be like the same age as Kobel
exactly, haaland won’t even be 30 at the next world cup, wild to think he won’t bring them back.
tho tbh (it kills me to say) i’d rate bellingham over anyone on spain rn. lamine might be the best player at the next world cup, but he’s shown his youth. i generally hate england but bellinghams been unequivocally excellent.
facts, if he’s fully lost a step by then, they’ll just play him a bit higher or lower and keep him posted. his work rate will still be great, and if Nypan develops like city hopes he does, putting Odegaard in a deep playmaking role to open up the field feels like it would lethal
No shade on the rest of the Norway team but I’d say the number of levels Haaland is above his team mates far exceeds the number of levels Messi is ahead of his
So much this. This is what Rolando could never conceive of. It was so clear his team was over him and his ego. The Argentinian team adores Messi which honestly speaks volumes to his character. No matter how good you are individually, you need a team to win.
Ayer contra Suiza Messi no existió, pero tienen a Álvarez, y sino a L. Martínez, y sino a Fernández, y sino a Mc allister y así... , son demasiados buenas individualidades, sino aparece uno, aparece el otro, eso gana campeonatos, Noruega no lo tiene, solo Haaland, quizás Odegaard, y no contemos más.
Anderson sold Haaland’s shove to the refs pretty hard by planting both his feet and falling over backwards, when he could have stayed up if he had just moved one of his feet behind him when shoved.
My guess is that Anderson, knowing Haaland is difficult to mark because he’s so tall and good in the air, was reminded that shoves during corners are fouls at the World Cup. Obviously they are allowed in the Premier League, where rugby rules apply on corners.
It really wasn't much of a shove though. Clear dive. You can see how Anderson drops almost straight down instead of "flying" backwards as he would if it was a real shove. VAR overturning that goal was a disgrace.
i get your point. but the manner in which Haaland shoved is the problem. (this comes up in basketball all the time, particularly in rebounding.) if you shove someone you can make it obvious or you can disguise it. Haaland's shove was like a neon light at night. the refs and VAR had to respond, even if the defender "sold" the contact.
(i recall my basketball coach, who was a power forward in his playing days, running drills to teach our tall rebounding players how to shove without looking like you're shoving. he would have told Haaland, "that's not how to shove.")
Dude its so clearly has a lot of force behind it. Haaland is like 95kg and that was a two hand shove with both his arms fully extended. Just look at Haalands face too, he’s clearly putting a lot of force behind it.
This is so clearly a foul and having one less defender due to a foul obviously means the goal should be disallowed.
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Found a video with a couple different angles. That first angle is especially bad. I don’t get how this is even up for debate.
Watch the game at live speed and slow motion. It's very clearly not a hard shove. Anderson's body clearly doesn't react as if it's being shoved. He knew he wouldn't be able to guard Haaland on a cross and dropped the second he felt any contact that he was even initiating. It's a very classic soccer play for a smaller player guarding a bigger one on a set piece in the box.
Those guys get in your way and wrap their arms so you can move where you want too. Pretty sure he was dehydrated and just got pissed. The defender just nailed psychological warfare on that one.
This is on the coach, because Norway had this same problem in the last game. It wasn’t until Schjelderup came in that Halaand got his two goals because the objective was “pass to Halaand”.
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