Haaland is necessary

Real Madrid drew against Cádiz (0-0) in a match where Ancelotti said he felt “satisfied” with the team’s work. Little can be blamed in attitude, although it is obvious that whites have a problem: It is the third goalless draw they have achieved at the Bernabéu after a league round played at home. Before the tables against Cádiz, the same had happened against Osasuna and Villarreal.

Ancelotti, in the subsequent press conference, gave a clue: “It is a difficult game for our technical characteristics because there is no space, they let you play on the outside with two against one, we do not have strength in the centers because we have forwards with other characteristics” . Just in those attackers “with other characteristics” This is where Erling Haaland, one of Madrid’s goals, enters the scene.

This course, Carletto He has managed to make his team attractive in attack (he is the top scorer in LaLiga with 39 goals), with fast, vertical play when there are spaces and associative when it comes to developing the play more. However, a killer from the area for encounters that get stuck. Benzema has mutated into a very reliable scorer, but he will never be that profile. He suffers when he has to stick with two strong centrals. There appears the figure of Haaland, a forward who needs half a chance to score a goal. It’s hard to imagine a scenario where Madrid shot 36 times (that was the number of shots against Cádiz) and don’t pocket any ball if Haaland was on the team.

For this reason, at Madrid they are increasingly convinced that, in addition to Mbappé, Haaland is the perfect complement in the current squad to make a lethal attack during the next decade. The Norwegian would provide that punch that Madrid does not finish finding since Cristiano left, although this season he has taken an important step due to the explosion of Vinicius.

“The only thing I know for sure is that Real Madrid is very interested in him,” Hans-Joachim Watzke, Borussia Dortmund CEO, said about Haaland in an interview with image The last Sunday. A signing that would solve many of the problems that Madrid has had in certain games this season …