Quote from: Falconer on Today at 06:25:08 PM

Quote from: ILuckyGuyI on Today at 06:03:49 PM

About Haaland in the Champions League, I can say that he has been quite impressive in this tournament also. He scored so many goals here last season. Maybe he couldn't make much impact on the semi finals and the finale but I can't overlook his overall effort just because of that.

Manchester City are playing great as a team. They don't rely on only one player such as Haaland. The semi finals and the finale were great examples for that. It is the truth that Haaland is an important piece of the puzzle. But Guardiola has a system working like a clockwork now. Even when Haaland isn't in-form the rest of the players can make up for that.

The good performance of a striker is not only measured by the goals scored in the matches they play, but I think their performance can also be seen by how much they influence the game. Haaland is a player who can make a positive impact on a game, even if he doesn't score a single goal during the match. That's why Pep Guardiola gives him minutes if he is available in the squad list.

Well, from all this it can be highlighted that Pep Guardiola is a coach who is very controlling of the games as they are going to be played, he has a very broad vision of the game, one could say that he uses Haaland as a reference so that he drags brands and can give them play To the other City players, he does not apply the same strategy that he used with Messi at Barceloja, where he wanted to make him the top scorer, which is that they all played in favor of Messi so that Messi only scored the goals and that is something that is I could tell leagues away, in every game, apart from the fact that they had implemented the famous tiki-taka, which was partly one of Barcelona's strong strategies, until now I have not seen any team that has done this strategy, but it is very good and obvious with the players indicated.

In this order of ideas, I dare to say that Haaland el Pep does not see him as Messi at that moment, perhaps he does not see players like Xavi, Iniesta so that they can do something like that, but rather play with another style of play that is difficult for they adapt, the current players are a bit more explosive, I would say that they are players who would not like to play either just for Haaland to shine in the goals, they are a bit more selfish in that sense, also they would only praise Haaland and not the team, what happened with Messi at that time, also times are different and that influences a lot, maybe that's what happens and that's why City is a team that has another meaning, in this case that can be said that current football It is a faster and stronger fire than that of a few years ago. Well, the players have a greater resistance and have more speed, which is why Pep can make a game more focused on even attack - attack, counterattack and little play on defense.

The fact that City now has Haaland completely alone so that he can do what he wants, but as long as his teammates help him, just the UCL final, we all thought that he was going to be the hero, but it's not like that, He is a player who did not stand out, perhaps that was the great Strategy of a Pep Guardiola who always shows his Strategies at the right Moment.