They don't call him the 'Nordic Meat Shield' for nothing. If ever criticism was going to bounce off someone, it is Erling Haaland.
It is inconceivable to consider a scenario whereby he does not click back into a relentlessly composed goalscoring groove. Manchester City would really rather he found that fairly quickly now, though.
Picking holes in the Premier League's top scorer - he is on 16, one ahead of Liverpool's Mohamed Salah - is difficult and ultimately foolish. His potential is so ridiculously high that any blemish feels larger than its reality.
Having said that, the squandered opportunities during the draw against Chelsea cost City two points and served as a fillip for Premier League title rivals Liverpool and Arsenal.
Shirt off, Haaland knew that as he trudged down the Etihad tunnel, having forgone his traditional lap of appreciation in front of supporters. A cameraman got his comeuppance for circling a little too close.
It was a frustrating evening for him, one in which the expected goal (xG) statistics indicated that enough had been created for him to score between one and two. That does not sound like an awful lot, but the metrics used surround the quality of chance for a normal striker without prejudice. This is no normal striker.
The two headers were the ones, the first steered wide in an effort focused on precision, then flying through the air for the second and missing the target.
These were not scenes often seen in his debut campaign and yet Haaland now only has two Premier League goals since November. He was absent for five games with a foot injury that threw up complications and unforeseen setbacks, but he has still featured in six. Both of those strikes came against Everton earlier this month.
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