Manchester City are looking to end their awful run of results against Feyenoord in the Champions League tomorrow night.
Manchester City crashed to another defeat against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday evening, losing 4-1 at the Etihad Stadium.
City now found themselves eight points behind league leaders Liverpool, and Pep Guardiola has a huge amount of work to do to get things back on track, with hopes of a fifth straight league title fading.
It’s Feyenoord up next for City in the Champions League, and it’s a chance to bounce back.
But City will need to improve at the back, and in the final third as well. This term, Erling Haaland has scored most of the goals and today – the notion that City are too dependent on the Norwegian was put to the Manchester City manager, who had a great response.
Guardiola asks which team wouldn’t be dependent on Erling Haaland
This season, Haaland has scored 15 goals this season in 17 appearances.
His rate of scoring has slowed down lately, with the number nine having just twice in his last seven games in the league.
City are now starting to feel this, with other attacking players such as Phil Foden, Jack Grealish and Savinho all failing to chip in.
Today at his pre-Feyenoord press conference, Guardiola was asked whether he felt City have become too dependent on Haaland to score goals.
He said: “The reason is not Erling. We are lucky we have Erling. One day he will score two or three like he has done since he arrived.
“Tell me a team Erling should play for who would not be dependent on him to score (journalist replies ‘good point’). Norway are dependent on him.”
Other Man City attackers must find their shooting boots
It is paramount moving forward that other City attackers find their shooting boots.
After Haaland, there is a five-way tie between Josko Gvardiol, John Stones, Phil Foden, Matheus Nunes and Mateo Kovacic, who are all second on three goals each.
| Man City attackers | Number of goals |
| Erling Haaland | 15 |
| Phil Foden | 3 |
| Matheus Nunes | 3 |
| Jeremy Doku | 2 |
| Bernardo Silva | 1 |
| James McAtee | 1 |
| Savinho | 0 |
| Jack Grealish | 0 |
Foden and Nunes haven’t scored in the league yet though, which is disappointing. But they aren’t the only ones.
Jack Grealish, Bernardo Silva and Jeremy Doku all need to be scoring more regularly, because at the moment there is definitely an overreliance on Haaland and it’s just not sustainable. Because as we have been seeing recently, he will have off days.
