Erling Haaland shoots to score his fourth goal against Wolves on Saturday in the English Premier League. Picture: Darren Staples / AFP
But City showed no signs of feeling the pressure as they cut the gap back to one point and have three matches remaining to Arsenal’s two. However, Guardiola pointed to an earlier injury problem this season that kept him out for two months as the reason behind Haaland failing to hit the same heights as last year.
The defending champions travel to Fulham and Tottenham in their next two games before hosting West Ham on the final day of the season. Josko Gvardiol was wiped out by Rayan Ait-Nouri for the first of two City penalties and Haaland sent Jose Sa the wrong way to open the floodgates on 12 minutes. Phil Foden’s long ball picked out Haaland, who cut onto his lethal left foot and found the top corner.