Haaland decision suggests Pep's real priority
At the weekend, Pep Guardiola said he wasn't thinking about Sunday's trip to Liverpool at all, with this trip to Copenhagen — and Champions League qualification — the top priority. If it was, though, he'd have surely started goal machine Erling Haaland in Denmark, but for the first time since joining Manchester City he was on the bench.
Guardiola explained that fitness and fatigue was his reason for dropping players, especially Haaland, therefore suggesting they were being saved for the Liverpool trip on Sunday. While Copenhagen were obviously the weaker opposition of the two, dropping Haaland felt like an admission that Liverpool have always been the priority.
