Erling Haaland makes worrying admission over Man City's season as striker reflects on 'catastrophic' campaign

Manchester City prima Erling Haaland has made a concerning admittance regarding his  team's season.

After winning the Premier League rubric 4 years successful a row, City person endured what Haaland has described arsenic a 'catastrophic' run this clip around.

Pep Guardiola's broadside are presently successful 4th spot successful the league - 18 points adrift of champions Liverpool.

City besides failed to unafraid glory successful the Champions League and the Carabao Cup, though they bash inactive person a accidental of winning silverware successful the signifier of the FA Cup arsenic they instrumentality connected Crystal Palace successful the last connected Saturday.

There person been galore factors down City's slump, including injuries and disappointing performances.

However, 1 crushed that Haaland alluded to whitethorn beryllium peculiarly concerning for City fans. 

Haaland indicated that a deficiency of hunger is 1 of the reasons that City person underperformed.

The striker was anxious to emphasise that helium feels that his ain performances haven't been of the required standard. 

As reported by ESPN, Haaland said: 'You tin find excuses successful each of this - injuries, galore injuries and astatine atrocious times - but successful the extremity we haven't been performing good enough. We haven't had the hunger wrong of us. I haven't been bully enough, I haven't helped the squad enough.'

Haaland added that City request to find the hunger required to execute amended adjacent season.

He said: 'The nine has acceptable standards and the barroom is truthful precocious which means this play is simply a catastrophic play - that says it all. Next play we request to find thing wrong our tummy again to onslaught the season.' 

After scoring 52 goals successful each competitions during his archetypal play astatine City, Haaland recovered the nett 38 times past campaign. So acold this play helium has scored 30 times.

City looked to person turned a country precocious with 5 successive wins successful each competitions but past play they were held to a goalless gully distant to already-relegated Southampton.  

Guardiola's squad volition reason their league run with games astatine location to Bournemouth and distant to Fulham. 

City person mislaid 9 times successful the league this season, which is thing that needs to drastically amended adjacent run if they are to situation for the title.

They volition besides beryllium competing successful the Club World Cup this summertime an volition instrumentality connected Juventus, Wydad and Al-Ain successful the radical stages.