The strikers are both enjoying fine seasons, but don’t expect every chance to be taken when Manchester City visit Liverpool
Strikers are both enjoying fine seasons, but don’t expect every chance to be taken when Manchester City visit Liverpool
And yet this does still feel like a genuine tie-breaker, given the recent history of final-day chases. It also feels like an unusually open prospect, two teams whose attacking blueprint has been configured around hugely watchable, entirely contrasting, but in some ways oddly aligned central strikers.
Along the way the high-profile miss, the uber-shank has been a prominent feature of both teams’ seasons. There is nothing novel inand City being at the summit of the Premier League’s Big Chances Missed table . This is in part a numbers game. The best teams make more chances. As such they score more and also miss more. Missing a chance is simply what good players do, in between wrecking your hopes and dreams with their shark-like refusal to be cowed or understand this as an act of human weakness.
A notable part of Haaland’s distinct style of miss – the power-miss, all tangled feet and pirouetting violence – is the way these moments are related to his super-strengths. Haaland’s outstanding attribute is that unmatched combination of size, speed and precision. Usain Bolt was unique in that he possessed the stride length of a big man, and the snap and speed of a normal sized-sprinter. Haaland has the same combination of outsize qualities and human-scale application.
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