Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola believes that Erling Haaland cannot win the Champions League on his own as they prepare for their opening game against Sevilla. Haaland has scored 10 goals in his first six games for the club since making the £51m move from Dortmund this summer. Haaland has scored 23 goals in 19 Champions League appearances with many believing he is the missing piece for the English champions.
“All the players the club decided to sign this season came in to try to make us better otherwise it would not make sense,” Pep Guardiola said about Erling Haaland. “Is that help to go to help us win the title? I don’t know. I always have believed, that if we rely only on Erling’s shoulders, we are not going to win the Champions League. What we have to do is play well, create chances to help him score goals, and hopefully, we can do it. He came here because we convinced him because he felt we didn’t have many strikers and he could play with us and try to be involved in the way we are playing.”
“I understand completely that everyone talks about Erling but I have three, four, five new players, and I consider it the same to settle as quickly as possible,” he added. “Hopefully he can help us but we’re not going to win just for Erling, this is my feeling. He has a special quality and in the important games maybe he can solve the problems we have, definitely, but if we don’t play well we’re not going to win games in the Champions League or Premier League. That is why we are lucky the club gave us Akanji, otherwise we would be in trouble. We knew it, we felt it, that is why the club moved quickly and we could bring in a player in this position.”
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