Manchester City this season appear mighty reinforced by the new striker Erling Haaland.
However, what would happen if Manchester City were not strengthened by Erling Haaland this season?
This was evident when Manchester City were only able to draw 0-0 against FC Copenhagen in the Champions League.
The Copenhagen-Manchester City match was held on matchday 4 of the UCL group stage on Tuesday night.
Thanks to this result, Manchester City still has the right to top the Group G standings with 10 points.
Meanwhile, Copenhagen is in third place with 2 points.
In this match, Erling Haaland only sat on the bench.
As a result, Manchester City had bad luck starting with Rodri’s goal being disallowed by VAR, the failure to execute Riyad Mahrez’s penalty.
Even in this match City got a red card for Sergio Gomez.
After continuously being played in 13 consecutive games, Haaland was finally benched by Pep Guardiola on this trip to Copenhagen.
Guardiola could not do much when his team failed to break into Copenhagen’s goal until the second half.
Entering Haaland would be a big risk because City were playing with 10 men following Sergio Gomez’s red card.
As a result, Haaland was only sitting on the bench throughout the full 90 minutes of the game.
Manchester City also ended up fasting scoring goals after always being on the scoreboard in previous matches.
There is a special reason why Guardiola saved Haaland in this match at Copenhagen headquarters.
Erling Haaland is prepared for the big match against Liverpool this weekend.
With a score of 20 goals and three assists in 13 matches, Haaland is clearly the City’s main weapon to break into Liverpool’s goal.
Moreover, the condition of Jurgen Klopp’s squad this season is not doing well.
In the match against Liverpool in the Community Shield at the end of last July, Haaland failed to break into his opponent’s goal.
In that match, Liverpool managed to beat Manchester City with a score of 3-1.
Haaland was ambitious to pay for the failure in the match at Anfield later.
Many people commented, Manchester City without Erling Haaland is just an ordinary Manchester club.
