Manchester City striker Erling Haaland said that the team’s spectacular decline this season was due to the team’s “lack of hunger”.
While City put an end to the campaign in solid form, the middle of the season was strewn with miserable performances and shock defeats, including a series of a single victory in 13 games between October and December.
Few could understand the extent of the city’s decline, which Haaland supported was due to a loss of “hunger” of a team that has got used to winning matches and raising trophies in recent seasons.
“Of course, you can find excuses, injuries, many injuries in bad times, but in the end, we did not succeed well enough,” said Haaland Espn.
“We did not fully be hungry in us. I was not good enough. I did not help the team enough. In the end, we were not good enough.”
Haaland’s comments were put to manager Pep Guardiola before the first League conflict on Saturday with the lower side of Southampton. The boss admitted his surprise when he testified his players to understand why they had allowed their standards to drop.
“If it’s a feeling for Erling, players should talk to each other and wonder why,” he said.
“We can do better. We are happy with the results we have, but the situation is that we have to keep it for many months. It has just been for three or four weeks.”
Haaland is one of the many players in the city to have missed an important period of the campaign by an injury. The Norwegian striker has not proven for his team since March, but is ready to return in the last weeks of the season.
“I feel good and I move well and I am ready,” he promised.
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