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Pep Guardiola stated Erling Haaland will “not resolve all our issues” and claimed he desires to make the 22-year-old a greater participant after the £51 million summer season signing marked his Premier League debut with each objectives in Manchester Metropolis’s 2-0 win at West Ham United.

Having failed to attain in his first look in English soccer throughout final week’s 3-1 Neighborhood Protect defeat in opposition to Liverpool, Haaland showcased his goalscoring capability with a first-half penalty and second-half strike in opposition to David Moyes’ workforce.

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However Metropolis supervisor Guardiola stated he won’t make his workforce over-reliant on the Norway worldwide, regardless of his goalscoring pedigree.

“All of the workforce have been wonderful, however for Erling to attain the primary two objectives is nice for him and for us,” Guardiola stated. “He’s a risk for us now, however he isn’t going to resolve all our issues.

“He’ll add one thing to our workforce. But when we simply depend on him, we might be making a mistake.

“One week in the past [after the Community Shield], he couldn’t adapt within the Premier League and now he’s alongside Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer and Cristiano Ronaldo, so..

“I am so blissful for him. Two objectives, the talk is over. He scored objectives in Salzburg, Dortmund, so hope he can do it right here.”

When Guardiola arrived at Metropolis in 2016, he urged striker Sergio Aguero so as to add extra to his sport and change into a better workforce participant and he stated that he additionally desires Haaland to evolve his sport.

“He got here for 5 years, hopefully he’ll keep for this time, even longer,” Guardiola stated. “He will be good for us and the workforce, however we will push him extra and add one thing extra to his sport and make him a greater participant, not simply the man who scores objectives.

“I do not know him a lot, so we want time, however I understand how he dealt with criticism this week and he was actually calm. I do not know but how he reacts to compliments, we’ll see. However I like how he took the penalty, his self-confidence. I believe he’ll punch a teammate within the face in the event that they attempt to take it off him and I like that.”

In a post-match interview, Haaland stated it was “a bit s***'” that he was unable to attain a hat trick on his debut earlier than being substituted within the closing levels.

However Guardiola stated that response was what he would count on from a prime participant.

“I used to be lucky to be with [Lionel] Messi,” Guardiola stated. “When he scores two, he desires three, when he scores three, he desires 4. All the highest gamers are the identical.

“They’re by no means happy, at all times hungry, ravenous for objectives, and wish extra, however at identical time, I’ve to make use of different gamers.”

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