Most strikers ‘don’t know how to score goals’ but Man City star Erling Haaland does because of ‘mathematics’

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MOST strikers don’t actually know how to score goals — the fact that Erling Haaland does is the key factor in making him so successful.

I don’t agree when people say goalscoring is about instinct. It’s about mathematics, it’s about the law of probability — and you have to learn the art.

Erling Haaland has a mathematical edge when it comes to scoring goals[/caption]

Haaland has pace, power and stature, he puts the fear of God into defences, who tend to drop deep to combat him but it’s almost impossible to stop him.

What really sets him apart, though, is his intelligence.

A goalscorer will attack space and nine times out of ten, the ball might not arrive exactly where you want it to — but when it does, you know you have an easy chance to score. Haaland gets this.

When I played, people often said that I’d done nothing all game but then scored the winner.

But for the rest of the match, I’d be making 15, 20 or 30 runs with the ball rarely going where I’d want it — and with Haaland there are many similarities.

I’d seen plenty of him at Borussia Dortmund and when he arrived I knew he was an absolute banker to score a lot of goals for Manchester City.

They are such a creative team who get the ball to the byline more than any other team I’ve ever seen.

City won the title without an authentic centre-forward the previous season but they didn’t win the Champions League until Haaland arrived and even though he didn’t score in the final or semi-final, the threat of him being there makes such a difference.