Erling Haaland, a 22-year-old from Norway, has set upon the English Premier League this season like “a visiting, wrathful angel,” samknightwrites reflects.
The English Premier League season is thirty-eight games long. For many years, it was axiomatic that, in order to prosper, teams needed a striker who could score twenty goals a season, a rate of a little more than a goal every two matches. In recent years, the league’s most prolific forwards—Harry Kane, of Tottenham Hotspur; Mohamed Salah, of Liverpool; and Jamie Vardy, of Leicester City—have regularly plundered about twenty-five goals a year.
On Wednesday evening, Haaland took to the field of Etihad Stadium, in Manchester, in what was supposed to be the climactic showdown of the season: second-placed City against Arsenal, the league leader. Before kickoff, Arsenal was five points ahead of City, with six games left to play. But, in truth, the momentum had been tipping City’s way for weeks.
Haaland is six feet four, but on the screen he seems to manifest at a larger scale than the other full-size soccer players. He has the wingspan of an albatross. Arsenal’s central defenders, Gabriel Magalhães and Rob Holding, didn’t know whether to get close to Haaland and grapple and tussle with him or whether to stand off him and let him have the ball—and, well, that wasn’t a good option, either. Pep Guardiola, Haaland’s coach has adapted City’s play to suit the forward.
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