Haaland provides vote of confidence to under-fire Guardiola after a ninth loss in 12 games for Manchester City.
Haaland provides a stauch backing of his manager as Man City stumble to a 2-1 loss at the hands of Aston Villa.
After Manchester City suffered their ninth loss in 12 games—a worrying stretch in which they have only won once—the Norwegian striker is certain that Pep Guardiola will find a solution to the team’s problems. The striker for Norway acknowledged that he hasn’t been playing well, but the City boss maintained that his squad would suffer without Haaland.
Their dreams of winning the title for the seventh consecutive season were dashed when City, who have only won one of their last seven Premier League games, lost 2-1 to Aston Villa, putting them well behind the competition. With two more games played , City is nine points behind leaders Liverpool.
“He won the Premier League six times in seven years, so we will never forget that,” Haaland said of his manager. “He’ll find the solutions. He has been doing that every single year. We still believe in him, we have to work harder than ever right now.”
City has lost the Carabao Cup, fallen out of the top four, and is in danger of missing out on the Champions League last 16 due to a terrible run of results that began at the end of October. After goals from Jhon Durán and former City midfielder Morgan Rogers condemned Guardiola’s team to a record sixth league loss in eight games, Phil Foden scored a late consolation goal. Guardiola defended Haaland, who did not register a shot and had a single touch in the opposition box
“We have to continue [working to put it right],” Haaland said. “The first [person] I’m looking at is myself, I haven’t been doing things good enough, I haven’t been scoring my chances and everything. I have to do better, it’s a lot on me and I haven’t been good enough.”