The first match reached the top to expose the shortcomings Manchester City 1-0 Southampton Haaland missed many opportunities after blitzing

At 22 o'clock in the evening of October 26, Beijing time, in the 9th round of the English Premier League, Manchester City hosted Southampton.

In the first half, Haaland broke the deadlock on the field with a prone shot in 5 minutes, Nunes, who started for the first time in the league this season, provided an assist, and Archer shot in stoppage time hit the frame, and Manchester City led 1-0 at halftime; In the second half, Haaland missed a lot of chances, and neither side made a difference.

In the end, Manchester City beat Southampton 1-0 at home to reach the top, and the Saints continued to be bottom with 1 point.

Manchester City vs Southampton,Pep Guardiola lined up the 4141 formation, the starting value should be 815 million euros, Haaland rushed forward, Savinho, Foden, B, Nunes formed four midfielders, Kovacic single midfield, Lewis, Akanji, Dias, Gvardiol formed a back four, and Ederson was in goal； Southampton 541 bucket formation, starting at 124 million euros.

Manchester City are the defending champions and did not play the attacking prowess of the title contenders against Southampton, who have only one point from eight games. Manchester City are playing at home, Southampton must be in the bucket to deal with it, and after Nunez, who started in the Premier League this season, assisted Haaland to break the deadlock with a five-minute lying shot, Manchester City became lacking in goal, the most fundamental reason is that the team's attack is without De Bruyne's creativity, and Alvarez's long-range shot. Haaland has repeatedly missed opportunities, and if the other two Nordic centre-forwards in the Premier League, Hojlen (Manchester United/Denmark) and Isak (Newcastle/Sweden), are put in Manchester City's number nine position, he can score a lot of goals in a season. Haaland has outstanding physical fitness, the true character of the devil, but the creativity of the attack itself is seriously insufficient, or the category of cake forward, without De Bruyne, coupled with the sluggish state, although Haaland broke the goal drought in 3 games, but missed many great opportunities, which will become the biggest hidden danger for Manchester City to compete for the title this season.

In the end, Manchester City scored only 1 goal with 22 shots, and with such a crotch-pulling offensive strength, there will be great variables in the Premier League title this season. Haaland, the attacking hero after the game, scored only 6.7 points, and Manchester City's starting 11 was the only player below 7 points, which is enough to explain Haaland's sluggish form.

Full game,Manchester City managed 58% possession and a total of 22 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target; Southampton had a total of 5 shots on goal with 2 of them on target。 Alvarez's departure from Manchester City is a lose-lose, especially in the days when De Bruyne is out injured, and Pep Guardiola's Manchester City are particularly in need of the creativity and long-range shooting of the spider.