“It’s happened many times this season that we give away an unbelievable amount of goals and up front there are many games, like Champions League at Sporting we should be 1-3 or 1-4 in the first half and we lost 4-1.
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola joked they will never be like “old City” this season but was pleased to see them survive a nervy finale to claim an important 1-0 victory at Tottenham.
It allowed Spurs to respond and Wilson Odobert failed to make the most of two opportunities, while Pape Sarr had a goalbound effort headed away by Josko Gvardiol before Haaland appeared to clinch the points in the fourth minute of stoppage time with a second.
Spurs head coach Ange Postecoglou felt an overeagerness hurt his team during a one-sided first half where Haaland was thwarted twice by Guglielmo Vicario and Savinho also miscued another golden chance.
Haaland bundled his way through Tottenham duo Archie Gray and Kevin Danso and while several replays did not shed any light on whether the Norwegian had handled the ball, the original decision of referee Jarred Gillett to rule out the strike was upheld by VAR Graham Scott.
