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Updated Monday, April 8, 2024-22:38
Whispers of sport The conditions for the "yes I want" between Mbappé and Florentino
Erling Haaland The Viking Forge
Carlo Ancelotti "Last year we lacked courage, mentality and football"
Luis Suárez
: "I think I choose Haaland, but Mbappé is at a high level."
Thierry Henry
: «I'll stick with Mbappé. He can create and finish, Haaland does not create, he only defines and can only play in the center. "Mbappé can play in several positions."
Arsène Wenger
: «Mbappé is technically ahead of Haaland. "When I saw him for the first time I said we had Pelé, and everyone called me crazy."
Ibrahimovic
: «If he doesn't score, you can say that Haaland has had a bad day. He is an animal, but maybe his ceiling is here. I don't know how he can improve. Mbappé is a more complete footballer. He can do more things. During recent years, the world of football, players, legends, fans and journalists, have asked themselves the same question:
Who is better, Mbappé or Haaland?
To know more
The clause.
I will never forgive you, Kylian Mbappé, ever! Well, or maybe yes
Editor: IÑAKO DÍAZ-GUERRA
I will never forgive you, Kylian Mbappé, ever! Well, or maybe yes
The two monsters come to see the greats of Spanish football this week, the Frenchman visits
Barcelona
and the Norwegian
Madrid
, in a quarterfinal that will serve, once again, to put weights on their respective scales when it comes to seating them in the throne of world football, the one that continues to look for an heir after the blackout of the careers of
Messi and Cristiano
.
In the comparative analysis between
Mbappé
(Paris, 1998) and
Haaland
(Leeds, 2000) we must go far beyond goals and assists. Let's start with the basics. The first measures
178 centimeters
; the second,
194
. One is
right-handed
, the other
left-handed
, and both are children of athletes.
Kylian's father
tried
to be a football player and his
mother
played handball, while Erling's father was a professional footballer and his mother became a
heptathlon
champion in Norway. They have sport in their blood and from it they have obtained extraordinary genetics. Mbappé reached
38 km/h
in a Ligue 1 match and Haaland brushed his back with
36.3
. They are bullets.
Women in charge
Personally, both families were surrounded very early on by two lawyers who have been key in their careers.
Delphine Verheyden
handles all the legal affairs of the Mbappé family and
Rafaela Pimenta
is the Haalands' right hand. Their environments are very closed and no one speaks for them beyond their closest family members.
Fayza Lamari
, the Frenchman's mother, is his voice in the negotiations, while
Alf-Inge,
Alfie
, the Norwegian's father, does not miss a single conversation about the future of his son. In recent years, both have been on the other side of the tables that they have shared with those responsible for
Real Madrid
, always interested in them.
Fayza was with Mbappé on the visit that Kylian made to Valdebebas at the
age of 13
, when he was doubting the next step in his football adolescence, and Alfie was in
2021
with
Mino Raiola
, when the Norwegian clan was considering which team to choose after his time in Dortmund. Curiously, in no case did they choose Madrid, although the Frenchman is now closer than ever.
Same goals/assists ratio
But let's get to what's important: what happens on the pitch. In his professional career, between club and national team,
Mbappé has accumulated 324 goals and 122 assists in 436 games
. That is to say. 0.74 points per duel, or one goal/pass per match.
Haaland, for his part, has 243 goals and 51 assists in 285 games
. 0.85 points per game or one goal/assist per duel. That is, his goals/passes ratio is exactly the same.
We are talking about the players who have broken all
youth records in the Champions League
. Mbappé was the youngest to reach 10 goals: 18 years and 350 days; and Haaland has been the youngest to score 40, surpassing Messi. There are, as examples, the Frenchman's hattrick against Barça at the Camp Nou in 2021 and the Norwegian's three goals with Salzburg in his debut in the Champions League. Mbappé is the 16th all-time scorer of the tournament and Haaland is the 20th. This year they are tied in the
continental Pichichi
with 6 goals, along with Kane and Griezmann.
What does Artificial Intelligence say?
As for the national leagues, the
1vs1 Performance
platform has been based on an artificial intelligence algorithm to detail the differences between the two during this course. Taking into account values such as completed passes, goals, assists, expected goals, attacks generated or losses, it has been defined that
Mbappé
, who has 24 goals in France, has an offensive grade of
99.97 out of 100
and Haaland , who is the Premier's top scorer with 18,
99.8
, while in defense the Norwegian narrowly surpasses the Frenchman: 54.83 and 50.75.
This season's advanced statistics perfectly explain the differences between the two and some of those statements at the beginning of the article. The summary is clear:
Mbappé moves more
. Consulting his
heat map
(the areas of the field in which he plays) speaks of a footballer who predominates on the left side and who is capable of appearing in the center, always from three quarters of the opponent's field. Haaland, on the other hand, carries out most of his actions in the area and barely participates, subject to City's style.
The shooting location
According to the WhoScored
platform
, Mbappé is the
6th player with the best average score
of the season (7.74), while Haaland is 27th (7.34). They both shoot a lot on goal, 4.3 and 4 shots per game, only surpassed by
Harry Kane and Boniface
(Leverkusen), but the distance of those shots also explains their game. Mbappé is one of the greatest
dribblers
in Europe (2.1 per game) and is the one with the most goals from
outside the area
(5). Haaland, however, takes half of his shots on goal from the six-yard box and barely makes
12 passes per game
, ranking him as the 121st center forward in this regard. Mbappé gives 33, the second attacker who participates the most.
On the horizon, a decade for them and a relationship that encourages that rivalry: "
I don't like comparing myself to others
," Haaland said. "In all humility,
I don't think everyone can change positions
and maintain the level like me," Mbappé said. In his head, the same phrase: "
Cristiano and Messi are incomparable
."