The Norwegian has been without a goal in 5 of his last 6 matches and the club is in the midst of a results crisis. “It would be easy to think that the problem is a single player, but that’s not the case,” says Pep
What if Haaland was Manchester City’s problem? In England they are starting to ask themselves this with more and more insistence and, to support what could only seem like a bold provocation, there are the numbers: from October to today, the Norwegian has scored just 3 goals in 11 Premier League matches, only one in last 5. A crisis, that of the former Dortmund, which coincides with that of City, who have won only once in the last two months. Guardiola, however, rejects any accusation to the sender and rallies around his centre-forward: “Haaland is our problem? I believe instead that without him we would be even worse off – said the Catalan coach in the press conference leading up to the match against Everton, in Friday program – We need to give him the right balls in the right places. It’s about us, not just one player: when Erling always scored in the past, he did it thanks to the team.”
“IN THE FIELD AT CHRISTMAS”
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City have lost 6 of their last 8 Premier League games and have slipped to -12 behind Liverpool, who also have a game to recover. A complicated situation, which requires extreme measures: “We will train tonight and also on Christmas Day: the players will spend the morning with their families and then, in the afternoon, they will come to the center to train. Hoping they will do it willingly, because it is our duty to do it in this moment.” City will then take to the field on Thursday 26 December at 1.30pm for the Boxing Day match against Everton. And, above all, to try to get out of the crisis.
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