Pep Guardiola refutes Erling Haaland claim after Man City loss to Aston Villa
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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola responded to Erling Haaland's claim that he is to blame for the team's woeful run by insisting everyone needs to do better. City's dreadful run of form continued at Villa Park on Saturday as goals from Jhon Duran and Morgan Rogers condemned them to a 2-1 defeat, which was their ninth loss in 12 matches. Haaland struggled once again up front, with the former Borussia Dortmund star only netting once in his last six matches for City, despite being the Premier League's joint-top scorer with 13 strikes.
The 24-year-old has been unable to lift City out of their recent rut and he chose to blame himself after the Villa defeat, saying he needed to do more and be more clinical to help his team-mates get back into their groove. "Of course, we are disappointed, it's not good enough. It's not good enough from me," he told TNT Sports. "We have to continue, we have to believe and we have to keep working hard. We have to continue. First I'm looking at myself, I haven't been doing things good enough, I haven't been scoring my chances. I have to do better, I haven't been good enough.".
Haaland woes up front come despite him smashing in 108 goals in 122 games for the reigning Premier League champions, which has seen him collect the golden boot in each of the last two seasons. But Guardiola dismissed Haaland's comments despite his honest and humble admission. The Spaniard insisted City would be a worse team without the forward and called on his team-mates to give him better openings and deliveries to get him back to his goalscoring best.
