Pep Guardiola must take advantage of the January transfer market if he wants to change or make his team rise and Manchester City management must also fully support it, otherwise I think their slump will be even deeper.
It has been only Haaland in striking for them this season, he needs another striking option just as he needs new defensive options and another option in defensive midfield. Manchester City are slowly drifting far from any chance to defend their title again, and Chelsea although the coach refuses to admit it are shockingly the title contenders this season, currently in the race with Liverpool. If Chelsea do not face problems later with injuries, or fatigue, they can actually win this season.
Haaland unfortunately continues to show that he does his job well, but he is not one to make a difference. He has incredible stats but I'm unlikely to see the "things were going badly but Haaland turned the game around" highlights that you can find for most top players (especially strikers).
Haaland is lazy as fuck. He rarely helped his club to defend, stood offside and does nothing to his club. He's too reliant on his teammates's service. Once none give him the ball, he's a flop.
I'm wondering how long Haaland will realize to run for the ball when nobody passes him. He has been invisible for weeks.
Haaland has a long-standing conflict with Guardiola, dating back to last season, when Guardiola released Haaland not for all matches, but often used him in the cup, and in EPL games left him in reserve and yet Haaland became the club's top scorer. Now Haaland is taking revenge on Guardiola in the only way available to him, namely playing extremely poorly. It was the same when United players played in the last ten hag games, so now Guardiola may feel the same way as ten hag when players just refused to play or played extremely lazy.
I would like to congratulate those who at the end of the second half at 1-0 bet on a United win at odds of 100! And I'm sure there were such people and it was really cool.