How Erling Haaland has scored to already break his first Premier League record
After five match days in the Premier League, Erling Haaland has already broken his first record scoring nine goals. Not surprising many of us who knew what he was capable of, but also serving a bit of humble pie who made cases against him or labelled him a flop. So how is he actually working under Pep Guardiola, how is he scoring his goals and is there anything you can do to defend him?
If you want an analysis of how I thought Haaland would’ve fit pre-season, you can read that below and I greatly recommend you reading it before the following article as I’ll be referencing from it.
How is he currently being played?
So in the prediction of how Haaland would be used by Pep Guardiola, I said that Guardiola could re-use an old concept from his time at Bayern where the striker occupied the space the between the full-back and the centre back instead of both centre backs. Combined with his speed, this positioning improves the angles on where he can attack the depth. And many shots are being created in this way by Haaland in this City team too, with one goal coming from this.
