It is easy to forget the Norwegian is only 22, travels with his dad and has never won a major trophy – he looks unstoppable
And so City rumble on into the quarter-finals. There was always an idea that Haaland would provide “that bit extra” in these high-stakes one-off games. Well, some progress there then. In reality this idea always seemed a bit off. He’s not a super sub. City’s entire system is still being re-geared to suit his skills, with all the referred complications that brings. This has been the challenge on both sides, to transform the world’s greatest one-liner into a novel.
De Bruyne would add the seventh at the death, a ludicrously brilliant long-range air-burner. He is just so vital in this team, a counterpoint to the machine-drilled perfectionism, a footballer with his own deeper levels and gears, and the perfect complement to Haaland’s edge. He looked sharp here. The patterns were good. And there are two questions to ask at the end of a night like this.
Haaland looked different too. There has been some talk of City as a more hard-headed machine now, less fun, less twinkly and feather-footed. And the Haaland that came to City was basically lethal at being lethal, even a little odd in an age of ever more complete and adaptable footballers. Haaland isn’t fluid or “polyvalent”. He doesn’t have strengths and weaknesses: he has super-strengths and don’t-cares.
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