What Rio Ferdinand Said
There have been some suggestions – mainly on social media – that Haaland has somehow made City worse since his summer arrival, despite his remarkable goal return.
However, former United centre-back Ferdinand was quick to rubbish such calls, instead suggesting that the Blues haven’t been playing to suit him in recent weeks.
“A lot of people are asking if [Erling] Haaland has made them worse, you can’t score that many goals in the team and the team become worse,” Ferdinand said on Vibe with Five.
“I looked at City at the weekend and watched them, they’re not actually playing to suit him in recent weeks.
“The amount of runs he made and me and Joleon [Lescott] looked at each other and went, ‘he’s in, he was in’. They don’t play the ball forward no way near enough.”
He added: “If they played a few of the passes forward, he’s actually getting in on goal and facing up with De Gea, but they didn’t see it.”
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Meanwhile, Guardiola also conceded that City may not be getting the best out of Haaland after the Norwegian failed to find the scoresheet against United.
“Maybe we have to find him a little bit more in the final third,” he said. “We tried to drop him knowing [Luke] Shaw and [Raphael] Varane would follow him.
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