I have a slightly different idea, Haaland is not the key factor that helped Man City win the championship. Erling Haaland is a small player in a big match, he always fails in the final.
Erling Haaland statistics in the final match were not very impressive, he seemed to lose his sharpness when Manchester City was struggling in an important match. He is not the only key player in Manchester City's success because every time the club he plays for is fighting for the title, he always misses out on scoring goals.
Following are Erling Haaland's statistics in the final:
- Community Shield Final 2022 vs Liverpool: 0 goals.
- Community Shield Final 2023 vs Arsenal: 0 goals.
- Champions League Final2023 vs Inter: 0 goals.
- UEFA Super Cup Final 2023 vs Sevilla: 0 goals.
- FA Cup Final 2023 vs Manchester United: 0 goals.
- FA Cup Final 2024 vs Manchester United: 0 goals.
Haaland is a very talented player. And Haaland has the ability to score a lot of goals. But I have seen Haaland's performance deteriorate in important matches. Haaland can't score in important matches. Alvarez's performance in important matches is better than Haaland's. Haaland is probably the main target of opposition players in important matches. This is why Haaland failed to perform well. Guardiola also knows well that the opposing defenders will target Haaland, so Guardiola changes his match strategy. And don't make match strategy based on Haaland. Maybe because of this, we see the deterioration of Haaland's performance in important matches.
Premier league is not easy,and getting regular goals in the league is so difficult,this is because the moment the defenders have known that you are the highest goal scorer,their attention will be on only you,And you won't be able to do anything extra ordinary in that match.Haaland came to premier league,and took the league by storm.He scored the highest number of goals any player in the history of England ever scored.He was so dominate that premier league defenders took it upon themselves to try to stop him.They couldn't stop him from winning the golden boot,but they stopped him from scoring upto 30 goals.If I'm not making mistakes,he got 27 goals.