Pep Guardiola has told his Manchester City players not to expect Erling Haaland to win them the Champions League on his own this season.
Haaland joined City in the summer and has ten goals in six Premier League appearances. His addition to the City squad has seen the Blues installed as firm favourites to win the Champions League for the first time, and much of the pre-match press conference was centred around whether Haaland would be able to be the difference between winning a European Cup or falling short again.
And Guardiola was keen to tell his players that they wouldn't have any success in the Champions League if they solely relied on Haaland to get them through difficult games.
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"All the players [we have signed] they try to make us better, otherwise makes no sense," he said.
"If that helps us to win titles, I don’t know. If we rely all on Erling’s shoulders we don’t win the Champions League. We try to create chances for him to score goals. We convinced him to come here, we felt we didn’t have much strikers. He tries to be involved in the way we play. He settles good like Julian and other players.
"I understand everyone talks about Erling but I have three, four, five new players and it’s important they all settle. I hope we can help him but we don’t win just for Erling and don’t lose just for Erling. He has a special quality and might be able to solve some problems. If we don’t play good we aren’t going to win games."
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