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On one side, Haaland, the pure goalscoring phenomenon, razor edge in a treble-winning team, who also seems, in isolated moments, to be playing with a set of trowels strapped to his feet. On the other the Premier League’s lord of misrule, a footballer who doesn’t so much contribute to a game of football as crash into it, cartwheeling about at the centre of Jürgen Klopp’s attack to increasingly convincing effect.
But there are two interesting sub-points here. First, the clear starring role of both centre forwards in those big missed chances. Haaland is top of the individual table with 26. Núñez is second, also on about 50 per cent of his team’s total, with both well on course to beat last season’s tallies. It is also why he will miss chances in that way, because the way City play asks him more often to use the more intricate tools, those quick-passing chances close to goal. And because when that part of his game is off he will miss with élan, will remind us that this is a large man required to work in small spaces.
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