Pep Guardiola explains why Man City haven't been passing to Erling Haaland as much

Pep Guardiola has challenged Manchester City to look for Erling Haaland more, as he offered an explanation for why the Blues kept declining opportunities to play the ball forward for their striker at RB Leipzig.

Haaland has been quiet in the last two games - at Nottingham Forest and Leipzig - and has missed good openings when they have presented themselves in City's two away draws. However, while his two-game goal drought has attracted criticism from outside the club, Guardiola insisted he doesn't need metrics or analysis of Haaland's limited touches to judge how his striker has performed.

Taking any blame away from Haaland, Guardiola said City need to improve their service for their No.9 rather than ask him to get more involved in their play.

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"It's our fault. Not Erling, Erling has been impressive all season. It's not metrics, I don't need metrics," Guardiola said.

"When I finish the game, one second later I know if he was involved or not and who should be involved more or not. I don't need numbers or metrics, I know exactly. It depends on us, not on him. He moves well we need to take a look at him a little bit more."

Haaland appeared frustrated as players opted against playing more directly to him at Leipzig, but Guardiola said that was down to City's game plan rather than any fault of Haaland.

"In the last game, you are right [he didn't touch the ball enough] but against Nottingham, no, Arsenal, no," the manager said.

"Don't make the one game like a theory. Because he had the chances at Nottingham in the first and the second half. But of course, we have to and will improve. We talked about that many times and