Haaland missed up to 2 opportunities in a row in front of goal, making Pep bored after the game.
On Wednesday night Man City had a big 3-1 win over Arsenal to return to the top of the Premier League table , and they have a chance to maintain that position with a game against Nottingham Forest who are in the bottom half of the table. But instead they were held to a 1-1 draw, which is somewhat unbelievable.
Bernardo Silva gave City the lead with a long left-hand shot late in the first half, and in the second half the visitors had a series of chances to finish off their opponents. But that series of opportunities was followed by a series of misses, sometimes quite ungainly like the situation of facing the goalkeeper and then losing balance by Phil Foden in the 48th minute or the header from close range was saved by Keylor Navas by Aymeric Laporte 4 minutes later.
But the worst was the ball in the 67th minute, Navas let the ball bounce after Foden’s long shot and the ball reached Haaland’s feet with the whole goal in front of him, but Haaland in turn hit the bar, picked up the ball, and blocked it. chest and then finish the second time to go up to the stands. In just one phase, Haaland made Man City lose another chance to close the match.
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And after nearly the entire match did not create any obvious chances, Nottingham Forest in the first good attack in the 84th minute scored again thanks to the timely presence of Chris Wood, the rookie picked up from Newcastle had just scored his first goal . for the new club. Nottingham successfully defended 1 point in the remaining time and pushed Man City to second in the table.
After the game Pep Guardiola could only say wearily that there was no one to blame for this loss but himself and the Man City players. “We played well but didn’t score when we needed to. At this level you have to score to avoid losing points, the first half should have been 2-0 or 3-0. We only had one shot on target, but that was enough to lose points,” he said.
“I’ve seen players lose goals with chances from one meter, so what can I say? You have to look at yourself and find ways to make better use of the opportunity. Today I think we play better than the opponent, but that is never enough.”
