Pep Guardiola defends Erling Haaland after striker said he hasn’t been good enough for Man City Earlier today it was yet another hugely frustrating day for the Champions, Manchester City, with another damaging defeat, this time away at Aston Villa. City have now lost six of their last eight Premier League games, and after the match, Erling Haaland was critical of himself, saying he hasn’t been good enough, but Pep Gua has been defending his star striker. Here he is now: I’m not agreeing with him; without him, it will be evn worse, but I like the players feeling that way. It’s the only chance that we have, you know, to get.
better there are two options is like I said, your colleague asked me if I judge myself, and I said yes, so in the other situation, it is blame for you having your site that depends on them, so I’m not agreeing with Erling because we tried it, and at the end he needs to know to be delivered the right balls in the right spots in the right positions, but now we recover, and we’ll fight for the next one. Casting your mind back to the first game you watched today, you were watching Villa against Manchester City, and for the second year.
Running in the month of December, they beat them at Villa Park, but this time Villa winning by two goals to one. We’ve talked about this becoming a crisis for Man City; now it’s a deepening crisis. It’s a full-blown crisis; there’s no doubt about it. You know, we thought it was a dip, but that’s Manchester City in a bad place right now. You know, the two midfielders, it was ended up Bernardo Silva and Jack Gishes, are two midfielders sitting there trying to get it back into it, but..
Take nothing away from Aston Villa. Um, you know, they caused Manchester City problems. It could have been two up inside the open in two minutes, two great saves from Atga, and then Jan obviously gets the opener, but, um, you know, I think for Manchester City, I mean, I think because of what Pep Guardiola has done in the past and what the club has done in the past, you’re a little bit hesitant to criticise, but it’s coming to this. You’ve been laughed into the next century if you said that was going to be their run over the last.
12 results at the you would have, but you look at it, and I said you’re a little bit hesitant to criticise Manchester City, but it’s getting to the stage where there are questions needing to be asked, um, you know, why the manager what was his body language like? Um, well, he ended up Howland and Anana were speaking at the end of the game, like speaking, and he ends up going to try and separate them as if there was an argument, and it ends up being an argum nt with them. Don’t get involved, but I just we spoke about it earlier. You’ve got someone who.
can score goals the way that Haaland does, zero created, and you’ve got Kevin De Bruyne sitting on the bench, never brought him on. Um, you just get the feeling that there’s, I know, big, it doesn’t, you know, there’s not a lot of things that get out of big clubs, but you get the feeling there’s something bubbling under, uh, you know, the Bon at Manchester City because it doesn’t look happy.