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Pep Guardiola emphasized Manchester CityIts current discomfort is no less for a player because he was once again saved Erling Haaland.
City lost 2-1 at Aston Villa on Saturday Premier League The champions’ ninth defeat in 12 matches in all competitions, with Haaland failing to score for the fifth time in six outings.
The Norway striker told TNT Sports after the game: “First I’m looking at myself. I have not scored my chances. I have to do better, I wasn’t good enough.”
City boss Guardiola later stuck by Haaland, who has netted 108 times for the club since joining in 2022, saying “we would be worse off without him” and “he needs to get the right ball in the right place”.
And in his press conference ahead of the Boxing Day home clash with Everton on Christmas Eve, Guardiola said: “It’s about us, not just one player.
“When in the past we scored and Erling was so dominant, helping us, it was because of the team.
“And when you have problems at the back, in the middle, it’s for everyone, it’s a team, it’s not for one player. It would be easier if it was only one player, because why. It’s not about that.
“Arling is so important to us, so important to us, has been. (We) have to try to do things better, use him better.
He added: “In this situation, we all have this tendency (to say) ‘because this one, and this one and this one’. It’s about us, about everyone.
“Guys are running, putting more effort than ever. All the trends ‘it’s because we don’t run, because we don’t fight, why this situation or this player or this manager’… it’s not about that.
“It’s a lot of small details or big details that all add up to not being as good as we are. But we have another chance on Boxing Day.”
