Pep says City must 'step up' to take goalscoring burden off Haaland

Pep Guardiola says his side must take the goalscoring burden off Erling Haaland after defeat at Villa Park

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00:00We have scored a lot of goals this season, Erling of course, but yeah, we have to make

00:04a step up, of course it's that, but today it's difficult because they defend real well,

00:09Kamara go to the back five, or Nanna back six, and they defend man marking in that position,

00:14and to bring a ball outside, I know how many times we're writing by line for Savinho first

00:17half, in the second half with Savio, in the first half with Savio and after with Jeremy,

00:21and we've made the crosses there, how many times Phil attack or Tijani attack in the

00:26last line for the pass, for the block, so we were there.

00:29We were close, I had the feeling that in other games we won and we were not so productive

00:33in that term.

00:34It's just that, yes, in our high pressing, when they contact behind us, we were not good enough

00:38to regain that ball.

00:39When you regain that ball, you defend deep, and of course with the pace of Watkins, with

00:43Morgan Rogers, with other players, with McGinn, the strong they are, the physicality on Nanna,

00:48Kamara, so we know it.

00:50So it's a Champions League team, unfortunately for them, they are not there, but it's a Champions

00:54League team, it's a top, top team for many years, and we will compete really well.

00:58So they are in a good way.