Erling Haaland has slammed Manchester City stars for being ‘sloppy’ and believes they should have scored more despite being winners of the Manchester derby with a 6-3 scoreline.
City ran riot against United, scoring four goals in the first half of the clash through Phil Foden and Erling Haaland
And though they were less impressive in the second half of the match, they added two more goals to their tally to embarrass their cross-town visitors.
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After the game, Haaland said: ‘I felt before the (United) game that something special was going to happen and we saw today that some special things happened.
‘It was nice. On Friday, I felt it in the whole training ground. It’s these games I want to play in. These are the best games where there’s a bit extra.
‘It could’ve been more and in the second half we should’ve been tighter, worked a bit harder, because it was a bit sloppy at times. We lost the second half and this is not good so we still have to work.
He added: ‘My confidence is good, it’s always been good,’ Haaland said. ‘After we played against Liverpool in the Community Shield it was still good after. It was good that match happened, I thought: I have to be a bit more ready.”
Pep Guardiola was also unimpressed with some ‘sloppiness’ from his players, even though they put six goals past United. They remain the only team not to have lost so far this season, and are just a point behind league leaders Arsenal.
‘Perfection doesn’t exist, it’s impossible. But we must try to look there,’ Guardiola said. ‘We did good, we can do better. Many, many players made sloppy passes. This is not good. We have to be more consistent.
‘In some areas we were still not good, the simple things still we are not good enough. We are losing easy balls. We still conceded some actions for the opponent with simple things we were not doing well.’
