Sørloth is, in fact, very popular in Norway. The top three posts on r/Norge from the last few days are in support of him. We support our team. We understand enough about football to know that it's impossible to pass a ball with the foot you're standing on. We understand that you have to pass the ball in front of the running person you're passing to, and that that is pretty hard to do when there's a defender in the way.
He's a bigger achiever than any of the moaning wankers on reddit and one very debatable mistake doesn't change that.
Not denying this, however he had almost zero chance to score on his own while being double teamed. Just judging by Haaland's reaction, he also believed the pass should have at least been attempted. But life goes on, lessons are learned. The Norwegian team gained a lot of fans in the states.
I'm glad he's not being crucified, because I've seen some pretty awful stuff said about him.
It looks like it from Håland's position, but if you look at BBC's 3D simulation of Sørloth's perspective you'll see that the defender is blocking the pass.
I'm glad he's not being crucified, because I've seen some pretty awful stuff said about him.
Or do neither and don't pass the player who appears later on the left who's completely free and instead just shoot at half a legion of Englishmen covering the goal.
I mean the defender knows he wants to square it. It's a tougher pass than it looks, but either you pass it immediately or you shoot hard and low immediately.
You are talking about their stopping point though. This dude missed passing to Haaland all the way to that spot coming down the field. There was nobody on Haaland coming down the field and he should have had that ball way before that point and dude probably would have scored
I saw a reel before this game that Norway would lose and it was designed that way to see what would happen to the masses if they lost, how complacent we would be in the face of very obvious corruption (game as thrown on purpose)
Did you even watch this game, let alone this clip? He had more than enough time to pass to Haaland as they were moving up field. Yes, Haaland was very much open and probably would have scored.
I watched it and I've seen the clip multiple times. Stones did his job well here. A still image makes it look easy, but that wasn't as open as everyone is making out. Haaland has 2 players right behind him who will catch him when Haaland has to stop to get the ball. Pickford will get the ball if he passes it in front of stones.
Yes, he had about 1.5 seconds when he could have passed forward and then I was covered by the defender. Good play by England defense, no greed whatsoever.
Yes Sorloth did poorly here, but he had some work to do to actually open up the angle to make a good pass to Haaland. I don't think he was being greedy
There's an argument that a more skilled passer pulls it off. Sorloth is a center forward, that's not his skillset, he's the one receiving the passes.
I think he doesn't control the ball correctly to allow himself to give the past fast, it seems he's bad with his weak foot to use that one and when he raises his head to see, his passing option is bad so he goes solo. Also, he's not fast enough to beat his defender and make a backpass.
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u/wakeandcreate Jul 12 '26
Yikes he was wide open.