Pep Guardiola: Manchester City can not solely rely on Erling Haaland if they want to win the Champions League

The Citizens will start their journey to conquer their Champions League titles the for first time in history with a trip to Sevilla on Tuesday. In the pre-match press conference, Pep Guardiola said Haaland, who broke the Premier League’s record last week by scoring 10 goals in his first 6 games, has enhanced the squad, but the Spaniard manager was cautious about putting too much pressure on the new signing despite admitting that he possesses "special qualities”

Pep Guardiola is cautious of heaping too much pressure on Erling Haaland as Manchester City prepare to face Sevilla in the Champions League, but admits he possesses 'special qualities'.

 "All the players that came in this season, they try to make us better, otherwise (signing them) would make no sense.

"If that is going to help us win the titles, I don't know, but if we rely all on Erling's shoulders we are not going to win the Champions League.

"We have to do well to help him, to create more chances and then he scores goals. Hopefully he can do it.

"He came here because we convinced him - we felt we didn't have many strikers and he could play with us, try to be involved in the way we play. He's settled good.

"I understand completely that everyone talks about Erling but I have three, four, five new players and it's the same for them all, to settle as quickly as possible.

"Hopefully he can help us, of course, but we are not going to just win for Erling. He has a special quality and maybe in the important games he can solve the problems we have, but if we don't play good we aren't going to win games in the Champions League or even the Premier League."

The upcoming battle against Sevilla would bring to Erling Haaland back to the good old days when in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 in the 2020-2021 season, Haaland scored four times to help his old side Borussia Dortmund win the Spanish side 5-4 on aggregate.

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