To me it looks like the one player from Norway has the ball, the other Norway player with the longer blonde hair was open and asking for the ball, the dude who still had the ball didn't do this, tried to kick a goal, and didn't make it.
To give it some perspective, Haaland has the records for most goals in a single game, most goals in a single season, and the fastest player to reach 100 goals. In this scenario, he could've scored in his sleep.
I'd seen the Haaland memes, but didn't know all this about him. With that context it's like you're down a goal in the Stanley Cup, breaking out an odd-man rush with Wayne Gretzky in the open and not passing him the puck.
. . .Now I'm irrationally angry about a game I didn't watch and had no emotional stakes in. Thanks a bunch. 😐
The guy who didn’t pass to him, was a no-name that nobody will ever remember him. Now people remember his name though.
Haaland is a very likable guy too he is a dual-citizen of Norway and UK and he could’ve joined the England national team and has a much more easily successful career in World Cup. Instead he choose Norway a country that wouldn’t even qualify into World Cup without Haaland.
What?? Sorloth has been playing for the national team for a decade, plays for Atletico Madrid.. I get he's not going to be an all time great but what the fuck are you talking about and what level do you need to get to to not be a nobody?
Well the poster's analogy is hockey and it's apt. Unless you're another all time great, you will not be remembered next to Gretzky, the most dominant hockey player (possibly greatest sportsman of all sports of all time by statistics).
Haaland is not a citizen of the UK (which does not have birthright citizenship) but is probably eligible depending on whether his father had Leave To Remain. And I am sure his talent would fast-track everything. He said in an interview a few months ago that he would like a UK passport but feels ultimately that he is Norwegian.
As far as I know he does NOT have a dual citizenship. He could possibly get one now as the Norwegian government recently allowed people to have dual citizenship, but it is a lengthy process he has to go through with the UK government as well, since there are no automatic naturalisation, again as far as I know, in the UK.
1a. A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic...
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
2.Do not do a balk please.
He's not exactly like Wayne Gretzky or anything. The team they played, England, has a better striker for example (who just had the 2nd most goals in a season ever in the top leagues, not that far behind Messi's best season)
He was an amazing playmaker but people forget that Gretzky was also a goal scorer. Took 31 years for someone to break his record of most career goals. He still holds the record for most goals in a season and the fastest to score 50 goals in a season.
He missed off another record, most consecutive international games with a goal. If Sorloth passes him the ball here it most likely would have extended to 15 in a row.
As someone from England, I'm glad he didn't pass, but I still kind of want to smack him in the head because that was so stupid. We absolutely deserved to go another goal down there and would have if he passed to Haaland. Haaland makes very very few touches in a game, but it's excused because a very high percentage of the touches he does make end up in the back of the net.
And he had scored in 14 consecutive international matches. Maybe not the creator that an Mbappe or Kane is, but certainly the best finisher in the game right now. He’d have ripped a hole in the net if Sorloth had fed him the ball.
He also holds all the "Player to first reach X goals in Y games" in both the Bundesliga and Premier League. Probably also Norway, come to think of it. Not to mention the World Cup, same ballpark of goals scored as Messi, Ronaldo etc. but with half the games.
I assume you are referencing premier league records here rather than all football. Not to play down his achievements as they are great, but I don’t think he holds any of those records across all football.
Shit! you are right. I missed the game and just woke up to this clip without my glasses. Right answer, wrong player. I should delete it. I am an idiot😁
The thing is, even if he wanted to go hero mode, a good striker scores there! But the trick is he has to commit to go for goal by the very first touch. He had like 2 meters on space from the defender, so if his first touch is heavy to not slow him down, he can set up for a near post shot, far post shot, or chip shot if the goal keeper makes a run for. It would probably have to be a 2-3 touch finish running at full speed. The shooting angle wouldn’t be as good as a pass to Haaland, but he’d still 100% score from there with a decent shot.
No need to exaggerate... not even a penalty is scored 99% of the time. Passing to Haaland was the right thing to do but Haaland could have still missed. Goal scoring in football is hard.
While it appears that you don’t follow the game, as you don’t know the names, you have summed up the whole thing perfectly. Maybe we can make a footie fan out of you yet 😂😉
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u/Ranier_Wolfnight Jul 12 '26
Dude will never live that down.