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Whoever the player is, if they encounter a strong defense then they will struggle, not just Haaland. Looking at last season, when the club faced Mamchester City, their defense received special instructions to guard Haaland, and it worked a lot. But Guardiola's clever use of other players to be the second target after Haaland and proven when he struggles to find space because of tight guarding other players who create goals. Now here we can see good teamwork.

Guardiola has a lot of attacking players in the team and many of them have leadership qualities that allow them to take responsibility and therefore it is not so easy to restrain each of these players. Silva, De Bruyne, Gundogan (no longer in the team) could create the chance themselves and score a goal, the value of such players is very high and this allows City to have an advantage. Haaland is a very talented striker, Guardiola could see that in him.

Because basically, Guardiola is not careless in building a team, because Guardiola also really considers substitute player who have good quality too. Thus, when there are injured main players, at least Guardiola will be able to rotate and implement the right strategy for Mnachester City according to the existing players.

So yes, don't be surprised when some of Manchester City's main players get very tight guarding by the opposing team, but in the end Manchester City can still win the match. Also for this season, of course Manchester City still has good quality also in the Champion League, so Manchester City still has a chance to reach the top match in the Champion League.

The game between Manchester city and Newcastle really shocked me as City claimed victory against them,I thought Mancity will be weak as Debruyne and Bernando are out injured,but they proved that they are capable of winning any team whether Debruyne is available or not.They showed their class against Inform Newcastle.With that game won,I can still say Mancity will unarguably win the league again this season.
I am not yet convinced about Arsenal who have spent a lot on new signings this season,but some of the signings are not fit for the team,someone like Karl Harvetz doesn't deserve to be in this current Arsenal squad,he is so sluggish,and his pattern of play dulls their play.With Declan Rice and Timber,I can say they are good to go,but they still need more two or three signings to be able to match up the level of City.