Erling Haaland and the Qualities of an Elite Striker
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Joe Devine is joined by Jon Mackenzie to explain the data gathering process Jon has been undertaking with Premier League strikers.
Jon decided to log a bunch of data about PL strikers… why?
Did Jon learn anything about players from timing?
Why is Haaland a high volume finisher?
Which players get their shots off the quickest?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Joe Devine and Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm John McKenzie, and I'm joined today by John McKenzie. |
| 0:14.7 | Hi, John. |
| 0:15.6 | I would never say podcast. |
| 0:18.1 | Come on. |
| 0:18.8 | No, that's true. |
| 0:19.4 | Sorry. |
| 0:19.7 | Podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | Podcast. |
| 0:21.7 | How's it again, you right? It's just a podcast. Yeah, really, really good and all the better for seeing you there on the other side of the mic. |
| 0:28.2 | That's right, my big face. Now, my big face spent a very enjoyable period of time to be determined by the editor today. |
| 0:35.6 | Listening to you, talk all about shots, shots and goals, and sometimes just shots and all different |
| 0:42.3 | Premier League players. |
| 0:43.7 | And the exciting bit is all buried in the second half, so make sure that you stay to listen |
| 0:48.8 | to John talking about specific players. |
| 0:50.7 | Specifically, I have to say, my favourite bit, when we start talking about Odson-Edoir, |
| 0:55.2 | Crystal Palace striker, I quite liked that and I don't like football. |
| 0:59.1 | So I think if you stick around for those bits, that'd be great. |
| 1:02.1 | But if you could, if you could pracey, and I mean pracey, John, what we talked about in |
| 1:06.5 | today's episode, what would you say off the back of a huge amount of research that you undertook |
| 1:11.8 | with no one asking you to? Yeah, so basically I logged timings for all of the Premier |
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