Tag: Erling

FPL gameweek 9 tips and team of the week: Stick with Erling Haaland – for now
24 October 2024 Off

FPL gameweek 9 tips and team of the week: Stick with Erling Haaland – for now

By Total Football News

Robert Sanchez, Chelsea, keeper, £4.7m – home to Newcastle

Newcastle’s goals have really dried up, with just one in their past three games and star striker Alexander Isak is out of form.

Sanchez, meanwhile, has two double-digit hauls this season and can be relied on for a save point or two – he is averaging 4.5 saves per game.

Josko Gvardiol, Manchester City, defender, £6.1m – home to Southampton

City

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Erling Haaland: How Manchester City striker reached 100 goals for club
22 September 2024 Off

Erling Haaland: How Manchester City striker reached 100 goals for club

By Total Football News

One record that could be on the agenda for Haaland soon is becoming Norway’s all-time top scorer.

He has scored 32 goals – only one behind record scorer Jorgen Juve, who played between 1928 and 1937.

Any other records might have to wait a while.

Sergio Aguero is Manchester City’s record goalscorer on 260 goals – a record Haaland would break in his sixth season at the club, based on

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FPL tips and team of the week: Erling Haaland not essential this week
20 September 2024 Off

FPL tips and team of the week: Erling Haaland not essential this week

By Total Football News

Emi Martinez, Aston Villa, keeper, £5m – home to Wolves

Clean sheets have been so hard to predict this season.

Gameweek four saw six of them from the 10 games, which means we’ve had 18 in 40 games – or clean sheets for 18 teams from a potential 80!

There’s no standout keeper this week but Martinez has been a big-game performer in the past and derby games can be

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Mohamed Salah & Erling Haaland form ‘shows benefit of rest’ – PFA
5 September 2024 Off

Mohamed Salah & Erling Haaland form ‘shows benefit of rest’ – PFA

By Total Football News

Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah’s brilliant early-season form illustrates why footballers must get proper rest periods, players’ union chief Maheta Molango has said.

In their first three Premier League matches of the 2024-25 campaign, Manchester City striker Haaland has scored seven times and Liverpool forward Salah has three goals and three assists.

Neither player featured in post-season major tournaments and were highlighted as case studies by Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA)

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FPL tips and talking points – are Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah essential in your side?
4 September 2024 Off

FPL tips and talking points – are Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah essential in your side?

By Total Football News

Having both players gives you a fantastic captain choice most weeks and also makes it very hard to fit another premium player into your side.

Yes, you can have a Cole Palmer or Bukayo Saka in there too, but almost every other player in your squad would be £5.5m or less – and history tells us that those prices don’t often result in high-scoring FPL players.

Your big-money alternatives are

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Erling Haaland: Man City striker on his back-to-back hat-tricks
31 August 2024 Off

Erling Haaland: Man City striker on his back-to-back hat-tricks

By Total Football News

Guardiola also hinted we are seeing something of a Haaland 2.0.

The striker, who had the summer off from any football as a result of Norway failing to qualify for Euro 2024, has always been a deadly goalscorer – but now appears to have developed other aspects of his game.

“He scored three goals today but he didn’t lose one ball,” added Guardiola.

“Today is one of the games where

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Manchester City’s Erling Haaland fresh and doing ‘ridiculous’ numbers – Pep Guardiola
25 August 2024 Off

Manchester City’s Erling Haaland fresh and doing ‘ridiculous’ numbers – Pep Guardiola

By Total Football News

While many of his club team-mates were playing international football during the summer, Erling Haaland spent it helping his dad chop wood.

The Manchester City striker would no doubt have preferred to have been at the Euros with Norway but they failed to qualify so it was a summer of chores and relaxation instead.

And it seems to have done him the world of good.

Two games in and he

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Erling Haaland: Manchester City striker’s record is like ‘Ronaldo and Messi’
18 August 2024 Off

Erling Haaland: Manchester City striker’s record is like ‘Ronaldo and Messi’

By Total Football News

Speaking as a pundit on Sky Sports, former Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge described Haaland’s goalscoring record as “ridiculous”.

“He is obsessed with scoring goals,” he said. “You can see he has it in him, he wants to be more than just a goalscorer.

“When you play Haaland, he has so much to his game we are not seeing. Ninety-one goals, it’s incredible, ridiculous. Players like him are so rare.”

Former

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Garth Crooks’ Team of the Season: Erling Haaland, Phil Foden, William Saliba, Ollie Watkins, Bukayo Saka
20 May 2024 0

Garth Crooks’ Team of the Season: Erling Haaland, Phil Foden, William Saliba, Ollie Watkins, Bukayo Saka

By Total Football News

Declan Rice (Arsenal): I can’t remember a professional footballer living with a price tag so comfortably. The sheer weight of the £105m Declan Rice cost Arsenal would have destroyed most players. However, we are dealing with a rather special individual who has improved the Gunners, and placed them in a position where they are capable of beating any team on their day.

They may not have won the title or

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Premier League player of season: Erling Haaland & Phil Foden on shortlist
9 May 2024 0

Premier League player of season: Erling Haaland & Phil Foden on shortlist

By Total Football News

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland could be named Premier League player of the season for a second consecutive year.

The 23-year-old Norway international has been nominated for the award alongside City team-mate Phil Foden.

Arsenal midfielders Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice, Chelsea forward Cole Palmer, Newcastle striker Alexander Isak, Aston Villa forward Ollie Watkins and Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk complete the shortlist.

The winner, decided by a public vote

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