Manchester City’s new star announced his arrival in a way that carried with it a dreamy sense of deja vu
game with a goal that carried its own dreamy sense of deja vu. It was a goal that already felt like a repeat, like something emerging out of traces in the air, a bend in the space-time continuum. How many times has this happened, that rangy, slanted figure, veering in from the right, the sense of a familiar reel of film playing out?
There was a clarity to this, an equation that will repeat: the pass, the run, the precisely metered acceleration. For all the talk of changes of style, what City have already is a devastating counter punch. This was Haaland Mk 1, the man who devours space. Even City’s yellow away shirt looks a little Dortmund-ish.
Haaland moved a lot in those opening exchanges. He didn’t have many touches, but there were endless arcs, feints, dummy runs. His best moment early on was barging on to a backpass and almost forcing a kind of panic-chance. His worst was failing to make contact with a header after a neat cross from Phil Foden, the ball seeming somehow to pass straight through his head.
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