Manchester City coach, Josep ‘Pep’ Guardiola, revealed that Erling Haaland has a special treatment regime to stay fit. Erling Haaland missed 16 matches due to injury at Borussia Dortmund in the 2021-2022 season before moving to Man City.
The Norwegian bomber even moved to Man City with conditions not fully fit in the transfer market last summer. Imperfect conditions forced Erling Haaland to miss Man City’s pre-season match in a duel against Club America.
However, Erling Haaland got past that bad start and lived up to his reputation as a “monster” in front of the opponent’s goal. Overall, Erling Haaland has collected 47 goals and six assists from 40 matches with Man City in all competitions.
Pep Guardiola admits that Man City is taking care of Haaland’s body condition carefully in order to get the 22-year-old striker’s best performance. What’s more, Erling Haaland who is 194 cm has explosive game characteristics and relies on acceleration. The size of the tall body of the player born in Norway makes it difficult to avoid injury.
Pep didn’t even play him for 90 minutes in the last few weeks. “I don’t know what he did while he was at Dortmund,” Pep Guardiola was quoted as saying by the Manchester Evening News. “However, here (Man City) we take care of him 24 hours. We have fantastic physiotherapists and doctors to work out every detail,” he added.
“I find it hard to understand why clubs spend so much money on players and then abandon them,” he said. According to Pep Guardiola, footballers, including Haaland, have busy schedules so they need good nutrition and rest. “The schedule is packed with matches every three or four days. We have to have an extraordinary team to look after them,” he said. “The world of football is really demanding now with nutrition, rest, sleep and food,” said the Spaniard.
As for the latest, Haaland made a record. He managed to equal Mohamed Salah’s achievement as top scorer in one season in the Premier League. The record was created after Haaland scored a brace or two goals in Man City’s 3-1 win over Leicester in Week 31 of the 2022-2023 Premier League. Haaland was withdrawn in the middle of the match at the Etihad Stadium.
