Erling Haaland told he falls short in Kylian Mbappe debate because of Man City teammates

Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe have given birth to the new GOAT debate, after the long fought one between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Many have already picked their sides between the City striker and PSG star, as former Inter striker Diego Milito has now provided his verdict. 

The former Inter Milan forward and Champions League victor, has confessed Haaland doesn’t create enough for himself and that he would prefer a player in the mold of Kylian Mbappe for his squad.

Compared to Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain, Erling Haaland relies on his Manchester City teammates too much and doesn’t generate enough for himself.

Diego Milito, a former Argentine international, stated that Haaland “always requires service from his teammates” after scoring City’s 19th goal of the season in the team’s 5-0 victory over Copenhagen on Wednesday. The Norwegian has already scored three hat-tricks in the Premier League, including one last week in the Manchester derby, and scores one goal every 48 minutes on average.

Additionally contributing with three assists, the 22-year-old is demonstrating why Pep Guardiola recruited him from Borussia Dortmund in the summer. The forward has now scored 14 goals in eight Premier League games, demonstrating his unrivaled ability to spot opportunities in front of goal.

Milito, who has linked Haaland’s predicament to that of Mbappe since he doesn’t resolve the matter on his own, isn’t quite convinced by Haaland. The Frenchman has already achieved a lot of significant victories in his brief professional history, including the World Cup.

Milito told La Gazzetta dello Sport : “I’ve always liked players more who can solve it themselves. Haaland, who is devastating, always needs service from his teammates. Mbappé can create goals by himself from nothing. But he knows how to give assists & find goals.”

After City’s huge win over United last weekend, Guardiola praised his no.9 and revealed how his creativity impressed him. Haaland, who also scored a hat-trick, set-up Phil Foden’s second and third as City cruised to three points at the Etihad Stadium.

“What I like in the last period of the game is he is involved. He said ‘I prefer to touch the ball five times and score five goals’. I don’t like that, I want him to touch the ball more and more,” said Guardiola.

“So he became a football player to score goals. I like that he’s part more for the situations, but don’t forget his biggest talent is to put the ball in the net.”

Putting the ball in the net is becoming easy for Haaland in this City team, but Guardiola insists he’s done nothing to fine-tune those goalscoring instincts with his new centre-forward.

“What he has done today, Erling has done in Norway, in Austria and in Germany, that is the reality. He came and realised ‘oh, these guys, my mates, run like an animal and I have to do it too’,” he said.

“Of course, the quality we have alongside him helps him to score goals. But what he has done, I didn’t teach him once. When the ball is right, and he attacks the box, how he moves behind the central defender away from the action, he has incredible instincts that the ball will arrive there and it comes from his mum and dad, he was born with that and just to help him produce more goals.”