Manchester City are the reigning champions of UEFA Super Cup. Kelvin De Bruyne absence made the game a little bit difficult for the cityzens. Manchester City will have face some challenges this season, why? Because some of their crucial players have exits the club, the young ones are yet to buildup to the top phase.
The last season shows some signals that Manchester City and Pep must replace De Bruyne as within some months, the player lost his position and important role in their squad. As well as the player got more injuries and missed more matches and the injury in Champions League final match only put his career in Manchester City under bigger risk. They are a rich club and soon they will find another star player who are younger to replace De Bruyne. I believe Pep already thought about it in the last season even months before De Bruyne's injury in Champions League final.
Checking the statistics of Erling Haaland in semi and finals, he have failed countless times to deliver his club, but if it's a regular game, he will scored an hat trick to prove his confidence and good positioning as an attacker. Let's see where the cityzens goes from here.
Erling Haaland will need to have better performances in big matches but he is young and can improve himself. Fortunately for Haaland, he joined Manchester City that is almost a perfect squad before the last season. He gave them a kind of last piece of their masterpiece and together they became treble winners in the last season.
In a first match of Premier League 2023 - 2024, Haaland scored two goals which are his good start but I think he will have more challenges from defenders and clubs in Premier League. They already had one season and one summer to analyze Haaland's strength and weakness so that they can control him better and minimize his danger against their defense systems.