What angry Erling Haaland did after Sporting disaster shows disconnect between Man City players

Manchester City slumped to a dismal Champions League defeat at Sporting, with a disastrous second half condemning them to a first defeat in Europe since April 2022.

City took the lead through Phil Foden early on, however despite dominating the first half and wasting a number of chances, Sporting equalised on the break through Viktor Gyokeres.

Within 20 seconds of the second half, Sporting stunned City by going ahead, and they won a penalty 22 seconds after the restart from that goal. Gyokeres converted, and he did so again later on to add gloss to the scoreline. Erling Haaland slammed a penalty against the bar to compound City's awful night in Lisbon.

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Haaland has got himself in the right positions and had plenty of shots, but they just aren't going in. He registered his second-highest expected goals figure in a City shirt against Southampton but only scored one, had two or three great efforts at Bournemouth but couldn't find the back of the net, and at Sporting he looked in the mood once more - only to spurn a number of good chances.

The best opportunity of the lot came from the penalty spot, given extremely fortunately in City's favour at 3-1 down. A delay seemingly interrupted his focus and Haaland's spot kick smacked the bar and flew over. What is it about Haaland and penalties in Europe?

He has had 17 shots on goal since his successful effort against Southampton, of which eight have been on target. He's hardly out of form, but he's not in form