Erling Haaland's class only shines light on glaring Man City problem

Manchester City suffered a precocious illness against Feyenoord to fto a three-goal pb gaffe successful the last 15 minutes and gully 3-3, cancelling retired Erling Haaland's brace

Pep Guardiola erstwhile joked that Tottenham were Harry Kane FC due to the fact that the England striker scored truthful galore goals for them.

That excavation could bounce backmost connected him arsenic Manchester City are progressively becoming Erling Haaland FC. Haaland’s treble against Feyenoord took his tally for City to 17 this play and helium has astir scored 50 per cent of their goals.

City’s adjacent apical scorer connected 3 are John Stones, Josko Gvardiol, Phil Foden, Matheus Nunes and Mateo Kovacic. That’s immoderate spread and the connection to opponents is wide - halt Haaland and you halt City.

Haaland is simply a improvement and his treble broke Ruud van Nistelrooy’s grounds arsenic the fastest-ever subordinate to 50 goals and assists successful the Champions League. The Norway superstar has scored 46 goals and added 5 assists successful conscionable 44 appearances and his stats are caput blowing.

But different than him, City person precise fewer players who tin measurement successful with large goals. They had Julian Alvarez and helium was their 3rd apical scorer past play with 19 goals. But Atletico Madrid came calling with a staggering £82million connection and Guardiola felt helium could not basal successful his way.

City looked astatine replacing Alvarez, but decided not to bargain anyone due to the fact that they could not find what they wanted. Although that made consciousness successful August, it looks risky present and they are putting each their goalscoring eggs successful the Haaland basket.

It doesn’t assistance that Phil Foden lone has 3 goals compared to the 27 helium scored past play arsenic helium carried disconnected the Player of the Year award. Foden is struggling to recapture that prolific form, which lone puts much unit connected Haaland.

He played his portion against Feyenoord but portion City ended their five-match losing streak, their precocious illness to acquisition their opponents a gully was calamitous and they volition request goals from different players if they are to drawback Liverpool successful the rubric race.

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