{"id":398312,"date":"2024-04-04T04:45:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=398312"},"modified":"2024-04-04T04:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:45:05","slug":"guardiola-backs-haaland-after-keane-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/guardiola-backs-haaland-after-keane-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola backs Haaland after Keane criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON<br \/>\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola said Erling Haaland is the best striker in the world and defended the Norwegian\u2019s performances following criticism from former Manchester United captain Roy Keane. Haaland, who scored 36 goals in the Premier League last season, had little impact in City\u2019s 0-0 draw with Arsenal on Sunday and Keane said the 23-year-old\u2019s general play was well below Premier League level. \u201cHis general play is so poor, and not just today. I think he has to improve that, he\u2019s almost like a League Two player,\u201d Keane said on Sky Sports after Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola said he did not agree with Keane\u2019s remarks on Haaland, who is the league\u2019s top scorer with 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Haaland) is the best striker in the world and helped us to win (the treble) last season, and the reason why we don\u2019t create many chances is not because of Erling,\u201d he told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played an exceptional game against Arsenal. I reviewed it &#8211; we just missed more people in the final third maybe. For the quality and different skills we have, Haaland is exceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City, who are third and trail leaders Liverpool by three points, face Aston Villa later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said Erling Haaland is the best striker in the world and defended the Norwegian\u2019s performances following criticism from former Manchester United captain Roy Keane. Haaland, who scored 36 goals in the Premier League last season, had little impact in City\u2019s 0-0 draw with Arsenal on Sunday and Keane said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Guardiola backs Haaland after Keane criticism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/guardiola-backs-haaland-after-keane-criticism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guardiola backs Haaland after Keane criticism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LONDON Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said Erling Haaland is the best striker in the world and defended the Norwegian\u2019s performances following criticism from former Manchester United captain Roy Keane. 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