Erling Haaland: Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards have fascinating debate about Man City star
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Jamie Carragher claims Erling Haaland ‘picked the wrong club’ by joining Manchester City.
Haaland was anonymous as City lost 1-0 to Tottenham on Sunday.
In fact, he failed to have a single shot while not touching the ball in Spurs’ penalty area.
And despite scoring 25 Premier League goals in just 19 matches, Carragher believes Haaland shouldn’t have joined City.
He made that claim on Sky Sports after the match – and it’s fair to Micah Richards didn’t agree.
After Carragher suggested Haaland joined the wrong club, Richards could be heard sniggering. Carragher fired back after hearing Richards laugh.
“He might have picked the wrong club to get the best out of him,” Carragher told Sky Sports after City’s defeat to Spurs. “You are laughing but we are not seeing everything from Erling Haaland at Manchester City. Not because of Erling Haaland.
“We can say they are a different team, but they have scored exactly the same amount of goals. He has scored 25 Premier League goals but Man City as a team have scored the same amount of goals, but they have conceded more.
“It’s far easier to counter-attack them as well. They are a different team and a lesser team with Erling Haaland, but again it’s not his fault. Manchester City as a team will not play end-to-end football, it’s not Pep Guardiola’s way.
“His players don’t have the energy, or the power or pace to play end-to-end, they build up slowly and they push the opposition back to the edge of the box and they play from there, when they lose it they win it back quickly. They keep people penned in.”
VIDEO: Carragher says Haaland joined the wrong club VIDEO: Micah Richards hits back at Carragher’s claim
Richards hit back, though.
Sky Sports co-commentator, Gary Neville, said something similar during the match as he claimed City were ignoring Haaland’s runs.
“Haaland is making the runs, he is ready to go, they (City players) are just not playing them,” Neville said. “The amount of runs he makes that get ignored is incredible.
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