His recent article: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2024/mar/02/erling-haaland-remains-both-solution-and-problem-for-manchester-city

If this is his viewpoint should he not at least mention that City won the treble last year with this system? Like I am fine for him to critique our balance with the addition of Haaland, but I feel that he should at least mention that this approach worked last year and then maybe work out his argument from there.

Barney Ronay is critical of City but I think he’s a terrific writer, but I have no idea why theguardian keep Wilson around.

by Successful_Drama_678

2 comments

  1. I got a paragraph into this and realised it was not worthy of my time

    Same with Ronay another treble nonsense

  2. Agree!

    To me, it’s a bit dramatic, and I expect more for the non-gossip media than reductive binary either/or:

    >But there is equally a sense that the problems Haaland is solving would not exist **were it not for him**.
    >
    >Which, as ever with a prolific striker, raises the question of whether he is getting his side out of jail, or whether there is something **about the way he plays that gets them into trouble.**

    And for npg to npxG stat, I’d like to see a graphic of or the raw data:

    >{Erling} He stands **543rd of 551 Premier League players** in the ranking of non-penalty goals minus xG,

    So basically, Erling is the worst in the entire league?

    From fbref, Erling:

    * 17 PL goals, 3 of which are penalties so 14npg
    * 16.1 npxG
    * -2.1 npg to npxG in PL this season, obv not great but🤷🏼

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