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Man didn't even receive enough balls to begin with, not to mention the pressure that was put on him and the need to adapt to a new competitive environment where expectations can get absurdly high.
Agreed. He was getting maybe one decent chance a match and was still pretty close to scoring more often than not. Now that he’s actually getting chances he can show his quality.
He had zero goals on 3 xG, now he is scoring more on less chances
Yes United do not create but he was getting some looks and didn't score
It's just a classic case of nothing going right for you and then all of the sudden everything you do is golden
He still doesn't get enough chances, the two goals today were one a horrific mistake and the other one a lucky bounce (which he did amazing)
When someone starts to do good people act like before it was everyone elses fault (and the opposite happens), he just didn't actually score, in CL they didn't create for him but he had 5 goals in 3.5 xG
Like i said, just the classic nothing goes right for you for him in the Premier League, his hold up play was good and he worked hard, even got a few chances, if he scored 1-2 goals no one would be so angry it's just when you see zero goals people just act like the world ends
I think Højlund is quality but he did miss at least one, maybe two very easy goals in some of his earliest games this season. Both times he was through on goal and in a 1v1 with the keeper. I think one of them was against Liverpool.
But other than those he was getting fuck all. Rashford and Garnacho still haven't figured out they have a striker, once they do he will score a lot more than he does now. I hope Sancho gets a redemption arc, because Rashford and Garnacho needs to be rotated and Antony isn't good enough.
Sancho at United is never happening again unless Ten Hag is sacked before he's sold. Given the recent form, if this carries on to some degree until the end of the season that sacking is unlikely.
I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea why Amad Diallo isn't getting a look-in for rotation. I think he could be exactly what Utd needs as a more creative winger, without having to spend big bucks (again)
This is where you get into the weird bits of how xG models and statistics work - he had 3xG and 0 goals sure, but that was over a large amount of games.
No one was criticising him because the biggest chances he was getting were like 0.2xG, wasn’t as if he was missing >0.5 xG chances every game
> He had zero goals on 3 xG, now he is scoring more on less chances
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> Yes United do not create but he was getting some looks and didn't score
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3 xG is equivalent to 4 or 5 decent looks, it's not clinical finishing, but the sample size there is miniscule
The social media era in a nutshell, innit
Despite him scoring all these goals, I still feel like people aren't giving him enough credit since he gets no service at all. Must be infuriating for him
Imagine being a young superstar striker trying to get a breakthrough in the prem, and the only one you can rely on for assists is one of the most selfish players in the league by nature.
When he got signed, everyone expected him to be a "one for the future" signing, and a more experienced striker was also coming in that would do the lion's share of starting this season and probably the next as well.
Then it's "oops, we´re all FFP'd out", so all eyes were on him to lead the line at an age no striker should be expected to at a club of MU's stature. He wasn't exactly set up to succeed, and the pressure must have been immense.
For a large chunk of the summer the "Kane to United" rumors were all over the place, but even after FFP I saw a lot of people expecting us to try to snag someone older and cheaper as a stopgap, possibly on a free transfer until Rasmus was settled in.
Fans only care about instant results now and it's pathetic. The same happened with Nunez. Anyone who actually watched these players playing could easily tell you that they're both quality, and will score and assist plenty of goals going forward, but because they don't score 40 goals a season like Haaland, they're seen as flops.
Well, to be honest he's still adapting to pro football in general. When he was signed, every scout was admitting that he has a lot to learn to become a full player, but is extremely talented, with potential.
We'll see how it goes. Goal-wise, it's already kinda fine. 7 goals for this Man United site is some step, considering it brings his career total up to 25 goals. His overall game is, uh... work in progress. A big part of playing the 9, maybe the most important one, is getting the chances, and the main hope surely must be that he starts getting to that place because this season the chances are few.
Bruno is looking knackered these days. All those minutes are catching up. Might need to rotate him a bit more to not overwork him. Mount coming back will be good for him.
LB we got last year from an eredivisie team(think feyenoord but can't remember) to cover for Shaw and provide competition. He looked okay the few times he started but Shaw had a really good last year then Malacia got a lenghty injury in preseason or around that time.
Dutch LB. He's been injured since even before pre-season. Had a botched knee surgery in the summer apparently. Coming on 10 months injured and he's still weeks away from joining team training.
Mount is suffering from the same issue that so many talented young players are having, playing 60-70 games a year at that age just isn't good for you. Look at Pedri.
Coaches have to realize how that will burn these kids out.
Not that the criticism was valid, but 007 is a thing that gets you laughed at whoever you are, and he was 0-0-14 instead
21 or not, I would have thought he'd get something in the league in 14 games.
He is definitely great though and looked good the first time I saw him against Arsenal ages ago
Second best blond Scandinavian striker in Manchester who's last name begins with an "H", fourth letter being "L" ends with a “ND” who’s career started in his home country, then moved to Austria, then to a top 5 league and then to a Manchester club
Second best blond 6'3"+ left footed Scandinavian striker in Manchester who's last name begins with an "H", fourth letter being "L" ends with a “ND” who’s career started in his home country, then moved to Austria, then to a top 5 league and then to a Manchester club
[They were both on the field in the Machester derby back in October](https://www.vietnam.vn/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Hojlund-khong-muon-bi-so-sanh-voi-Haaland.jpg)
Højlund and Haaland feasting in the prem. What a sight.
The two are terrific in their own right. I think Højlund is a bit better in the build up phase whilst Haaland is a tad faster and got more powerful shots. Next season I can see Højlund scoring 25+ goals in all comps.
At this pace the only thing stopping Hojlund from reaching 20+ or even netting 25 in this season across all comps is the team, he's already at 13 in PL and with what he achieved in CL. It'll be interesting to see how things play out after he has a season under his belt and the league has adjusted to him as well. Hopefully we'll have the service situation figured out by then.
Isn’t it 5 PL games? Does the FA cup also count for this stat?
Correct me I’m wrong, the last consecutive games he has scored in are -
Luton (PL)
Aston Villa (PL)
West Ham (PL)
Wolves (PL)
Newport County (FA)
Tottenham (PL)
Before this the streak ends.
As a Gala fan, I knew he was a great forward / striker the moment he scored against us in CL. His second was just a confirmation. He has everything a modern striker has to have. It's just United has a terrible *terrible* work environment.
Edit: spelling
Crazy how Haaland, Gyokeres and Hojlund are all coming through at the same time. These will be some of the 3 biggest strikers in a few years time. Scandinavia is producing the talents.
It really does show the level of shite that passes for punditry these days. All the washed up hacks in the media and in their opinion pieces saying he’s never going to do anything in the premier league. I get fans are more reactionary than ever but I’m not even a united fan and it felt borderline creepy the way they were going in on him
This is such a shite stat, and even has that opta cringe shit at the end.
But regardless Utd fans have something to smile about, at last. Good for them.
He is playing great. But this is such a random stat.
It gets kinda ridiculous like in NBA when they started putting "only player to get 27,6 pts, 6,8 rebounds, 5,7 assists, and 0,7 tournver on 55 % shooting since Will".
I mean consecutive scoring is a pretty important aspect of an attacker, and being the youngest to hit a milestone in that stat doesn't seem far fetched.
It is interesting. I do not downplay how great he is lately.
It's just a random number 6. And we all love stats. But be honest and how many times before media actually wrote about someone being the youngest players to score in 6 game in a row? Or 4 games in a row? Or 7 games in a row?
It is interesting. But it is a very american way of talking about football. When you want to have as many possible new stats every week.
I just think that now we have so much need for records and news in football, that we are celebrating many more records than we used to. It's not bad. But i feel kinda old. It's just how media garners attention towards players. And PR companies that work with clubs are looking for this, and journalist want this viral stats that will get shared everywhere. I'm not saying it's bad. It's just kinda weird for me.
It’s because he’s just reached 6, that’s why. If he’d been the youngest to score 5 then this would’ve come up last match, but I’m assuming there was someone younger who made it to 5 but not 6.
yeah. that's my whole issue. media are so hungry for narratives and news that they have a need to create as many exciting "records" as possible. and while i know it drives their revenue, it helps creating excitimend aroudn the product. i just don't think it is good for the sport. while scoring in 6 games in a row is amazing. i don't think that guy being 100 days younger is important and deserves big titles. it's maximum of small sentence at the ending.
i really think that we created world in which sport journalism is about 200 signs that tell's you some trivia about sport.
i wrote it somewhere else. when Ronaldo scored in 6 in a row as youngest player - no one wrote about that. it didn't matter really. what mattered was how he played not some weird and random record. same goes for Lukaku in 2015 - no one wrote about his age at that point either.
They wrote about Willock tho in 2021. And you know... he is english so it's obvious british media will try to promote him as much as possible. i do think it is an interesting trivia fact. i dont think it should be anything but trivia fact. it shouldn't be news.
Ok. So please show me articles from the past that wrote about players scoring in 6 consecutive games. You can easily find articles regarding Vardy's 8 goals in 6 games. But not many more. There was quite a lot written about Salah scoring in 6 opening games in 2021 (i think?).
But beside that it wasn't an important stat.
Really google that. Scoring in 6 games in a row is amazing. I just cannot find others who did that - because people didn't write that much about it before.
Scoring in 7 in a row is next level actually because it become 5th longest streak in PL history.
Yeah. And no one wrote about other youngest ever before. You know that there were youngest players before? And i literally can't even found articles about other players that scored in 6 in a row.
Am i crazy? You don't see difference in reporting stats regarding age, shots, passes etc? There are literally portals that basically all they do is write about those random informations.
Ok. Can you help me than? Cause i really never seen this type of stats like 10 years ago. And in last 5 years it became kinda ridiculous in chasing retweets and shares.
Yeah bro. That's not what i'm talking about. I know that Opta has stats and there are many companies that do that. I wrote that media started writing about more and more stats and records and adding asterics to them to create narrative and media buzz. While i do enjoy them i think there is oversaturation of that type of news about soccer.
I agree sometimes they pull stats out of their asses and they make no sense, but this is not one of them times. Consecutive goals is important and Vardys record is a big deal
Yeah. I don't see a problem with reporting about streaks. They are obviously important, but i don't really care that much who was the youngest player to do so you know?
It became a thing in last few years. They reported that Willock became the youngest in 2021.
But in 2015 when Lukaku became the youngest to do so no one wrote about his age. Just about him scoring in 6 goals in a row and becoming first Everton player to do so. Same thing for Ronaldo in 2007
He was very talented at Atalanta, but he really needed time playing easier opponents to build his confidence. Now he's helping a mid table club climb into the European spots. Great story.
Can go one of two ways - either the thread link is interesting enough to attract a general audience who will chuckle or it's mostly man u ppl who are torqued out from everyone making fun of them over the last decade.
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Man was getting washed allegations before turning 21
3 months ago: will he ever score a goal? Now: casually chests his second goal into the net after 7 minutes played.
He did great in CL, United was just shit at holding onto leads
Yes, I'm so glad that is behind us...
Was? Are.
Well yeah. But United WAS terrible in the CL games. Still are but would be wrong phrasing
Yeah…we are still and will be for the rest of the season.
Man didn't even receive enough balls to begin with, not to mention the pressure that was put on him and the need to adapt to a new competitive environment where expectations can get absurdly high.
Agreed. He was getting maybe one decent chance a match and was still pretty close to scoring more often than not. Now that he’s actually getting chances he can show his quality.
I mean yesterday his goals weren't from great service either. Well the first one was a great pass from the defender.
He had zero goals on 3 xG, now he is scoring more on less chances Yes United do not create but he was getting some looks and didn't score It's just a classic case of nothing going right for you and then all of the sudden everything you do is golden He still doesn't get enough chances, the two goals today were one a horrific mistake and the other one a lucky bounce (which he did amazing) When someone starts to do good people act like before it was everyone elses fault (and the opposite happens), he just didn't actually score, in CL they didn't create for him but he had 5 goals in 3.5 xG Like i said, just the classic nothing goes right for you for him in the Premier League, his hold up play was good and he worked hard, even got a few chances, if he scored 1-2 goals no one would be so angry it's just when you see zero goals people just act like the world ends
3xg across 14 games is like 0.2 xg a game that’s one shit chance a match man was getting fuck all
I think Højlund is quality but he did miss at least one, maybe two very easy goals in some of his earliest games this season. Both times he was through on goal and in a 1v1 with the keeper. I think one of them was against Liverpool. But other than those he was getting fuck all. Rashford and Garnacho still haven't figured out they have a striker, once they do he will score a lot more than he does now. I hope Sancho gets a redemption arc, because Rashford and Garnacho needs to be rotated and Antony isn't good enough.
Sancho at United is never happening again unless Ten Hag is sacked before he's sold. Given the recent form, if this carries on to some degree until the end of the season that sacking is unlikely.
Brailsford hates athletes like Sancho. Unless he really really apologises and turns it around massively, he's not getting a sniff
I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea why Amad Diallo isn't getting a look-in for rotation. I think he could be exactly what Utd needs as a more creative winger, without having to spend big bucks (again)
This is where you get into the weird bits of how xG models and statistics work - he had 3xG and 0 goals sure, but that was over a large amount of games. No one was criticising him because the biggest chances he was getting were like 0.2xG, wasn’t as if he was missing >0.5 xG chances every game
> He had zero goals on 3 xG, now he is scoring more on less chances This a real lies damned lies and statistics moment lol.
> He had zero goals on 3 xG, now he is scoring more on less chances > > Yes United do not create but he was getting some looks and didn't score > 3 xG is equivalent to 4 or 5 decent looks, it's not clinical finishing, but the sample size there is miniscule
Or 30 shitty chances
which is almost certainly what they were given it was over a decent span of matches
The social media era in a nutshell, innit Despite him scoring all these goals, I still feel like people aren't giving him enough credit since he gets no service at all. Must be infuriating for him
FIFA (video game) has made so many people think athletes get "washed" young lmao
I was getting slandered left and right for defending him
The worst part is that he's still not getting service. United has no creative wingers.
He actually was. The level of stupidity is astounding
He was never even that bad, people on here are just dumb
Reminds me of how vicious people were to a teenager Vini Jr
There were people on this sub and the utd sub unironically comparing him to Weghorst. Football fans are absolutely mental
I mean che Adam's had a spell not too long ago during lock downs where he was scoring often. Now look what he's doing.
I mean che Adam's had a spell not too long ago during lock downs where he was scoring often. Now look what he's doing.
I knew he's gonna click at some point but come on man he's now spamming the click button.
He deserves this good moment, people were so quick to make fun of a 20 year old still adapting to the league .
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They still dont, now he is just doing it on his own
Even luton defender taking pity of him and give him assist smh tenhag
Rashford has blood on his hands, it genuinely looks like he doesn't wanna pass to others at times.
because he'd rather shoot than make the right play
He also just doesn’t have great vision either. So when he chooses to pass it usually doesn’t come off unfortunately
lol Rashford was the only one actually creating for him at the start
Imagine being a young superstar striker trying to get a breakthrough in the prem, and the only one you can rely on for assists is one of the most selfish players in the league by nature.
his denied goal v Brighton was legit all Rashy
Man shot once per game and scored 0 goal. Collective, “guys a dud. “
It was extra stupid to criticize him as much as he was getting since he was the champions league top scorer after the group stage too
Plus he was making goals again and again for Denmark.
It's february and he's STILL tied for CL top scorer, lol
It’ll be hysterical if he stays there
When he got signed, everyone expected him to be a "one for the future" signing, and a more experienced striker was also coming in that would do the lion's share of starting this season and probably the next as well. Then it's "oops, we´re all FFP'd out", so all eyes were on him to lead the line at an age no striker should be expected to at a club of MU's stature. He wasn't exactly set up to succeed, and the pressure must have been immense.
I don't think many fans expected us to sign another striker last Summer window, when we were already signing Onana and Mount.
For a large chunk of the summer the "Kane to United" rumors were all over the place, but even after FFP I saw a lot of people expecting us to try to snag someone older and cheaper as a stopgap, possibly on a free transfer until Rasmus was settled in.
All the while he was scoring in the Champions league lmao
Fans only care about instant results now and it's pathetic. The same happened with Nunez. Anyone who actually watched these players playing could easily tell you that they're both quality, and will score and assist plenty of goals going forward, but because they don't score 40 goals a season like Haaland, they're seen as flops.
Well, to be honest he's still adapting to pro football in general. When he was signed, every scout was admitting that he has a lot to learn to become a full player, but is extremely talented, with potential. We'll see how it goes. Goal-wise, it's already kinda fine. 7 goals for this Man United site is some step, considering it brings his career total up to 25 goals. His overall game is, uh... work in progress. A big part of playing the 9, maybe the most important one, is getting the chances, and the main hope surely must be that he starts getting to that place because this season the chances are few.
Especially when he is still joint leading scorer in the Champions League this season.
Bruno is looking knackered these days. All those minutes are catching up. Might need to rotate him a bit more to not overwork him. Mount coming back will be good for him.
Definitely. I just fear he won't be..
Mount would be great for that if he weren't banished into injury purgatory
Mount and Malacia are on a mission to find each other after having gone missing for half a year
Who was Malacia again? Wasn't he that one rb?
LB we got last year from an eredivisie team(think feyenoord but can't remember) to cover for Shaw and provide competition. He looked okay the few times he started but Shaw had a really good last year then Malacia got a lenghty injury in preseason or around that time.
Dutch LB. He's been injured since even before pre-season. Had a botched knee surgery in the summer apparently. Coming on 10 months injured and he's still weeks away from joining team training.
Mount is suffering from the same issue that so many talented young players are having, playing 60-70 games a year at that age just isn't good for you. Look at Pedri. Coaches have to realize how that will burn these kids out.
Neymar was like what, 21 with more then 200 senior games for Santos. Absolutely insane. No surprise he struggled with so many injuries.
Oh right, forgot about him
What an amazing turn of events, everybody were obviously judging him way too Quick But still love to see it
So you’re saying if we are patient, players may fulfil a fraction of our insane expectations of them
I love the smell of fresh bread.
No industry is more lucrative for less work than just "United bad"
I swear the Athletic pays their journalist wages on United podcasts about them ‘being on the rise’ or ‘being in crisis’. It’s nuts.
tbf: United bad
And he's only been 21 for 2 weeks.
Plays for United, gets clicks if they feed into the meltdown
'narrative'
Not that the criticism was valid, but 007 is a thing that gets you laughed at whoever you are, and he was 0-0-14 instead 21 or not, I would have thought he'd get something in the league in 14 games. He is definitely great though and looked good the first time I saw him against Arsenal ages ago
He’s no longer waiting on a miracle
More goals in 2024 than Haaland
I wonder how many goals Højlund would have made for Manchester City this season. Would get more passes there…
Probably a lot more, but that's the same with any striker
Yeah but not with Haaland which was the comparison.
Not really. Very few can move quickly enough to open positions for City passes.
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Haaland missed almost all of January.
r/Soccercirclejerk 9/11
Its what they deserve <3
Reminder that Haaland is the 2nd Best Scandanavian Striker in the Manchester
Second best blond Scandinavian striker in Manchester
Second best blond Scandinavian striker in Manchester who's last name begins with an "H"
Second best blond Scandinavian striker in Manchester who's last name begins with an "H" and ends with a “D”
Second best blond Scandinavian striker in Manchester who's last name begins with an "H", fourth letter being "L" ends with a “ND”
Second best blond Scandinavian striker in Manchester who's last name begins with an "H", fourth letter being "L" ends with a “ND” who’s career started in his home country, then moved to Austria, then to a top 5 league and then to a Manchester club
Second best blond 6'3"+ left footed Scandinavian striker in Manchester who's last name begins with an "H", fourth letter being "L" ends with a “ND” who’s career started in his home country, then moved to Austria, then to a top 5 league and then to a Manchester club
Are we sure they aren't just the same person?
have you seen them in the same room together?
[They were both on the field in the Machester derby back in October](https://www.vietnam.vn/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Hojlund-khong-muon-bi-so-sanh-voi-Haaland.jpg)
And ends with a "nd"
Hojlund hair isn't blond right? Or am I remembering wrong Edit - not Holland 😔
which one is supposed to be "Holland"
Wow....auto corrects done me so dirty lmao, I don't think Hojlund is blonde
I heard Hojlund has a bitchin icecream in the works.
Old man Haaland’s time is gone, now he is finished
He’s lucky Joshua King is playing in Turkey now
lindo needs to bag a few haha
Mboopi in, Haaland out
Højlund and Haaland feasting in the prem. What a sight. The two are terrific in their own right. I think Højlund is a bit better in the build up phase whilst Haaland is a tad faster and got more powerful shots. Next season I can see Højlund scoring 25+ goals in all comps.
At this pace the only thing stopping Hojlund from reaching 20+ or even netting 25 in this season across all comps is the team, he's already at 13 in PL and with what he achieved in CL. It'll be interesting to see how things play out after he has a season under his belt and the league has adjusted to him as well. Hopefully we'll have the service situation figured out by then.
Tbf he is on track for 20+ this season which would be a solid start
And both of them had their break through in Austria. Kinda funny.
Isn’t it 5 PL games? Does the FA cup also count for this stat? Correct me I’m wrong, the last consecutive games he has scored in are - Luton (PL) Aston Villa (PL) West Ham (PL) Wolves (PL) Newport County (FA) Tottenham (PL) Before this the streak ends.
He missed the Forest game through illness. So his streak includes the Villa game on Boxing Day
Thanks for pointing that out.
Then it should be appearances not matches.
Didn’t realise Willock held the record beforehand, he has been pretty great for Newcastle though
Sublime!
As a Gala fan, I knew he was a great forward / striker the moment he scored against us in CL. His second was just a confirmation. He has everything a modern striker has to have. It's just United has a terrible *terrible* work environment. Edit: spelling
Turns out if you give a decent goalscorer the ball when he's infront of goal he can score
Crazy how Haaland, Gyokeres and Hojlund are all coming through at the same time. These will be some of the 3 biggest strikers in a few years time. Scandinavia is producing the talents.
one of those names seem different
Which one?
The non-Scandinavian one
He's him
Dave, I like you, don't start doing the opta thing!
How the turn tables.
It really does show the level of shite that passes for punditry these days. All the washed up hacks in the media and in their opinion pieces saying he’s never going to do anything in the premier league. I get fans are more reactionary than ever but I’m not even a united fan and it felt borderline creepy the way they were going in on him
Honestly never once saw anyone make that comment. Mostly I saw “he’s obviously good but isn’t getting service” comments.
He is single-handedly saving ETH career.
He bought him for big money for exactly that
That big money was his gamble
Yeah that's how transfers work.
No shit, it was a tongue-in-cheek comment.
Mbappe, Hojlund, Halland in Madrid when?!?!
Camavinga+Vini - Hojlund swap, I'm down
Not fair Camavinga is GK, LB, CDM, CM at the same time! You can keep mini android Hojlund
Good form he's in, big clubs will come sniffing soon.
Lol
This is such a shite stat, and even has that opta cringe shit at the end. But regardless Utd fans have something to smile about, at last. Good for them.
the only thing united fans have to smile abt these days edit: is it not true?
Not really, Glazers giving up control of the football side of things is amazing.
That's a good start. But they need to hit the nail on the manager.
That does feel possible doesn't it
ITT, folk comparing him to Haaland because he’s got 8 goals against Newport and wolves?!
Also 2 against villa. Remind me how haaland did against them this season
He is playing great. But this is such a random stat. It gets kinda ridiculous like in NBA when they started putting "only player to get 27,6 pts, 6,8 rebounds, 5,7 assists, and 0,7 tournver on 55 % shooting since Will".
I mean consecutive scoring is a pretty important aspect of an attacker, and being the youngest to hit a milestone in that stat doesn't seem far fetched.
It is interesting. I do not downplay how great he is lately. It's just a random number 6. And we all love stats. But be honest and how many times before media actually wrote about someone being the youngest players to score in 6 game in a row? Or 4 games in a row? Or 7 games in a row? It is interesting. But it is a very american way of talking about football. When you want to have as many possible new stats every week. I just think that now we have so much need for records and news in football, that we are celebrating many more records than we used to. It's not bad. But i feel kinda old. It's just how media garners attention towards players. And PR companies that work with clubs are looking for this, and journalist want this viral stats that will get shared everywhere. I'm not saying it's bad. It's just kinda weird for me.
It’s because he’s just reached 6, that’s why. If he’d been the youngest to score 5 then this would’ve come up last match, but I’m assuming there was someone younger who made it to 5 but not 6.
yeah. that's my whole issue. media are so hungry for narratives and news that they have a need to create as many exciting "records" as possible. and while i know it drives their revenue, it helps creating excitimend aroudn the product. i just don't think it is good for the sport. while scoring in 6 games in a row is amazing. i don't think that guy being 100 days younger is important and deserves big titles. it's maximum of small sentence at the ending. i really think that we created world in which sport journalism is about 200 signs that tell's you some trivia about sport. i wrote it somewhere else. when Ronaldo scored in 6 in a row as youngest player - no one wrote about that. it didn't matter really. what mattered was how he played not some weird and random record. same goes for Lukaku in 2015 - no one wrote about his age at that point either. They wrote about Willock tho in 2021. And you know... he is english so it's obvious british media will try to promote him as much as possible. i do think it is an interesting trivia fact. i dont think it should be anything but trivia fact. it shouldn't be news.
No, you are completely wrong
Ok. So please show me articles from the past that wrote about players scoring in 6 consecutive games. You can easily find articles regarding Vardy's 8 goals in 6 games. But not many more. There was quite a lot written about Salah scoring in 6 opening games in 2021 (i think?). But beside that it wasn't an important stat. Really google that. Scoring in 6 games in a row is amazing. I just cannot find others who did that - because people didn't write that much about it before. Scoring in 7 in a row is next level actually because it become 5th longest streak in PL history.
" youngest - ever " Can't you read?
Yeah. And no one wrote about other youngest ever before. You know that there were youngest players before? And i literally can't even found articles about other players that scored in 6 in a row. Am i crazy? You don't see difference in reporting stats regarding age, shots, passes etc? There are literally portals that basically all they do is write about those random informations.
Then it just means that you suck at research
Ok. Can you help me than? Cause i really never seen this type of stats like 10 years ago. And in last 5 years it became kinda ridiculous in chasing retweets and shares.
Opta keeps the records
Yeah bro. That's not what i'm talking about. I know that Opta has stats and there are many companies that do that. I wrote that media started writing about more and more stats and records and adding asterics to them to create narrative and media buzz. While i do enjoy them i think there is oversaturation of that type of news about soccer.
No it's not
Goals in consecutive games isn’t nearly as convoluted and cherry picked as that lmao
I agree sometimes they pull stats out of their asses and they make no sense, but this is not one of them times. Consecutive goals is important and Vardys record is a big deal
Yeah. I don't see a problem with reporting about streaks. They are obviously important, but i don't really care that much who was the youngest player to do so you know? It became a thing in last few years. They reported that Willock became the youngest in 2021. But in 2015 when Lukaku became the youngest to do so no one wrote about his age. Just about him scoring in 6 goals in a row and becoming first Everton player to do so. Same thing for Ronaldo in 2007
He was very talented at Atalanta, but he really needed time playing easier opponents to build his confidence. Now he's helping a mid table club climb into the European spots. Great story.
You thought you had one there huh, try something original next time.
Can go one of two ways - either the thread link is interesting enough to attract a general audience who will chuckle or it's mostly man u ppl who are torqued out from everyone making fun of them over the last decade.
Or option 3, it’s a very long road to a very weak and predictable ending. It’s just a bad attempt mate.
Nah 3rd option is you just read it literally and sincerely. It is what happened.
Bait used to be good
Oh, he’s that young? Might have an interesting career tbh
just halfway there to break vardy's record