GRAEME SOUNESS: Erling Haaland is like 人工的な 知能, he 分析 everything in a nano-second and now has Anfield in his sights... but Virgil 先頭 Dijk can shut up the doubters by pocketing the はびこる Man City 星／主役にする

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There’s a lot of talk these days about 人工的な 知能 and its ramifications for the 未来. 井戸／弁護士席, I have to tell you the 概念 has already reached the 首相 League. Erling Haaland looks like a modern robot and the question everyone will be asking this 週末 is how can Liverpool and Virgil 先頭 Dijk を取り引きする him?

‘With difficulty’, is the facile answer. When you’re 先頭 Dijk, you’re usually thinking about the 今後 you’re up against and 結論するing, ‘I’m quicker than him. I can outjump him. I’m stronger than him’.

Perhaps for the first time, 先頭 Dijk’s thoughts tomorrow will be, ‘He may be quicker than me. He may be stronger than me. He may be able to outjump me’. This is unknown 領土 for him.

Virgil 先頭 Dijk is in unchartered waters 長，率いるing into Liverpool's 衝突／不一致 with Manchester City

But however invincible an 対抗者 might seem and however few chinks in his armour, there is always the psychological dimension. There is always a chance for a player to rise to the occasion, which 先頭 Dijk must do on Sunday.?

Irrespective of 先頭 Dijk’s form, irrespective of where Liverpool are at the moment, this is a game he should be licking his lips for. He’s going to be playing against the guy they’re all raving about. He can shut them up. Shut out all that white noise. He can tell himself, ‘If I go out there and have Haaland in my pocket, they won’t be talking like that again’.

There was never a week spent at Liverpool thinking about the 対立. It was all about us. In the tunnel before the game, I was trying to 勝利，勝つd up myself. I didn’t need anyone to do that for me.

When it （機の）カム to playing, I made it personal. At Wembley in the Community 保護物，者, Haaland accidentally flattened 先頭 Dijk at one 行う／開催する／段階 with a flailing arm. That would have been more than enough 動機づけ for me.

先頭 Dijk may be 長，率いるing into the game 受託するing that Erling Haaland (R) is 肉体的に superior?

I’m not sure 先頭 Dijk is that 肉親，親類d of character, though. I’m yet to see him angry. He just looks like a movie 星／主役にする at times. I don’t think that’s a conscious thing. I just don’t think that 怒り／怒る is in him and I don’t think it’s the 肉親，親類d of individual he is.

That image of James Milner giving him a piece of his mind during the 敗北・負かす by Manchester 部隊d two months ago was 明らかにする／漏らすing. I’ve seen Jordan Henderson do that to 先頭 Dijk, too. If that had been a team-mate of 地雷 bawling me out ― and 上級の players at Liverpool certainly would because that’s what 集団の／共同の 責任／義務 looked like ― I would not have taken it. My reply would have been, ‘Oh, for f***’s sake yes, so you’ve done your 職業’, though what that team-mate had said would 登録（する）.

先頭 Dijk’s 返答 looked almost subservient. These are young men, testosterone-filled, with egos that would choke a horse. It was hard to believe that a player would let that pass.

Since arrivingat Anfield he hasn't gone into a game thinking he is 肉体的に inferior to a player

The problem with 直面するing Haaland is he never knocks off. He’s alive to everything until the whistle is blown or the ball has gone out of play.

And he has a 質 of movement which belies his years. The karate-kick goal he 得点する／非難する／２０d against Borussia Dortmund last month would 示唆する he is doing more than just the normal stretching and mobility work at the training ground. The タイミング and direction of his run in the build-up were いっそう少なく noticed but 極端に clever. At 22, he plays with the same nous that Harry Kane 陳列する，発揮するs at 29. I’ve played with Ian 急ぐ, Kenny Dalglish, Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini, but I can’t think of anyone who at such a young age 分析 a 状況／情勢 in a nanosecond lik e Haaland does.

This is why mentality is so important on Sunday. 先頭 Dijk’s first foot race with Haaland will be an 利益／興味ing one.

The Dutchman has 支配するd all before him and will silence his critics if he does the same

On that 得点する／非難する／２０, the old 法案 Shankly adage that they preached to us ― ‘the first two yards are in your 長，率いる, son’ ― is as true today as ever.

Then there’s the first time they’ll jump together for a ball. Who outjumps whom? If 先頭 Dijk 勝利，勝つs these first challenges, Anfield will 答える／応じる. It’s a stadium like no other in that 尊敬（する）・点. The difficulty is that the 返答 of a player of Haaland’s class is, ‘He’s just beaten me there. He’s not going to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 me a second time’. You’ve got to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 him again and again and again.

Pep Guardiola said this week, when 残り／休憩（する）ing players in Copenhagen, that Haaland and others were tired, but I don’t buy that. I cannot see how a player is tired after 14 games, 特に when the team are winning every week. That’s a dangerous road for 経営者／支配人s to go 負かす／撃墜する, where you 工場／植物 a seed in their 長，率いるs about 疲労，（軍の）雑役.

Haaland is like a robot and has begun life in the 首相 League like no player ever before him

Of course, Haaland is by no means City’s only world-class 脅し. Phil Foden is on 解雇する／砲火／射撃 and will create a problem. It won’t be 平易な for Joe Gomez, who could see a lot of Foden and who probably sees himself as more of a centre half than a 権利 支援する.

That’s why it’s all about the midfield not 許すing City to look up and 選ぶ a pass.

But this is the chance for Liverpool to make fools of those people who’ve 疑問d them.

‘The empire 崩壊するs’, 宣言するd one of the headlines when City （機の）カム to Anfield and （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 us 3-1 in the winter of 1981. We took a 広大な／多数の／重要な 取引，協定 of satisfaction from turning that into an 悪名高い headline.

Ronaldo brings belief to Manchester 部隊d and 任命する／導入するs 恐れる into the op position

There was an instant sense of foreboding when Cristiano Ronaldo （機の）カム on to the field against Everton last Sunday.

The fans 明確に sensed the danger and so did some of the Everton players.

Jordan Pickford and James Tarkowski seemed more nervous in 所有／入手. That’s what this player does to you. He brings belief.

Cristiano Ronaldo's goal and 業績／成果 away at Everton shows he is still an 資産 to his 味方する

He struts around, as he is 完全に する権利を与えるd to do.

That gives his team a belief and an arrogance which 脅迫してさせるs 対抗者s, makes some of them わずかに anxious and maybe makes them forget about their own 職業s. If Ronaldo never 追加するs to his 700-goal 一致する and Haaland plays until he’s 37, Haaland would have to 得点する／非難する／２０ 37 goals a season for 15 years to match his 記録，記録的な／記録する. Even if Haaland keeps 得点する／非難する／２０ing at his 現在の incredible 率, he would reach 613 goals.

Mind-boggling. I hardly need to 増強する my point that this is a player 部隊d should be doing everything to keep at the hear t of their team.

I wish my 広大な／多数の／重要な friend 'Whip' a 迅速な 回復 after his 一打／打撃

I’m so happy to hear that my old Liverpool team-mate David Fairclough ― the player we called ‘Whip’ ― is on the mend after having a 一打／打撃. We lived next door to each other in Sandfield Park, 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the corner from Melwood, and （機の）カム to know each other very 井戸／弁護士席.?

He’s remembered for the 伝説の night against Saint-Etienne at Anfield in 1977, when he （機の）カム on as 代用品，人 to 得点する／非難する／２０ a goal six minutes from time which took the team to the European Cup final.

The ‘Supersub’ tag could be hard for him at times. He 手配中の，お尋ね者 to start games as much as any of us. But he was always ready when called on; a scorer of 広大な／多数の／重要な and important goals whose pace and directness worried defenders when he （機の）カム on. I wish my old friend a 迅速な 回復.

The 'supersub' tag could be difficult for David Fairclough at times but he more than lived up to it during his enormously successful time with Liverpool

特別奇襲隊員s played with an inferiority コンビナート／複合体 on Wednesday night

I was 支援する up at Ibrox as a guest of my old club 特別奇襲隊員s on Wednesday night. The 7-1 勝利，勝つ made it a wonderful occasion for Liverpool, but I was disappointed that 特別奇襲隊員s looked like a 味方する with an inferiority コンビナート／複合体.

I 受託する that the way the 首相 League has 発展させるd creates a 財政上の 湾. Liverpool’s most expensive player was Darwin Nunez, who cost £85million. 特別奇襲隊員s’ most expensive player, Ryan Kent, cost £6.5million. But 特別奇襲隊員s were either going to get rolled over by Liverpool or get in their 直面するs, and they never 始める，決める about them. They never really believed in what they were doing. I left the ground feeling that they had let their 支持者s 負かす／撃墜する by not showing the belief which is part and 小包 of 存在 a player at that 広大な／多数の／重要な club.

Liverpool won’t have been kidded by the scoreline. They know it’s going to be an 完全に different proposition on Sunday.

特別奇襲隊員s played with what appeared to be an inferiority コンビナート／複合体 against Liverpool in the week