Former Premier League winger Andros Townsend believes Manchester Metropolis have added “extra creativity” to feed “robotic” striker Erling Haaland.
Haaland scored Metropolis’s first aim in Tuesday’s 2-0 Champions League win at Villarreal, making it 12 video games in a row that he has discovered the web.
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“He is an absolute robotic,” Townsend informed BBC Radio 5 Stay’s Soccer Each day podcast. “You place the ball within the field – he will get there first and he will rating. He has executed his complete profession.
“He scored 22 Premier League targets final season and it was deemed a disappointment. That is the degrees he has set.
“With this Manchester Metropolis aspect who’ve added extra creativity after dropping Kevin de Bruyne, they appear to be making the possibilities for Haaland once more and clearly he will put them away if the ball comes into the field.”
Spanish soccer skilled Guillem Ballague additionally emphasised Metropolis’s “superiority” on this recreation, with Pep Guardiola’s aspect recording 66% possession regardless of ending the match with much less photographs than their opponent.
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“Within the first half, particularly it was a crew that was nicely structured,” he stated. “After they did not have the ball it was troublesome to see the place Villarreal may damage them and after they had the ball, that they had a whole lot of choices to attain.
“However, soccer is humorous. Villarreal hit the bar and had one other likelihood and it may have been like towards Juventus with two late targets.
“It did not occur, partly as a result of there was a superiority from Metropolis that Villarreal couldn’t match and the one hope was that everybody fell asleep.
“Metropolis deserved what they bought.”
[BBC]