Erling Haaland has said he is feeling “pressure” to deliver the Champions League trophy for Manchester City.
The Norway striker will line up against Inter Milan in Istanbul on Saturday as Pep Guardiola’s side look to complete the treble.
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But Haaland is acutely aware that City won both the Premier League title and the FA Cup before he arrived from Borussia Dortmund last summer and said his job is to win the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history.
“Of course I feel pressure,” Haaland said. “I would lie if I said I didn’t. You say it yourself and it’s true, they won the Premier League without me, they won every trophy without me. So I’m here to try to do a thing that the club has never done before and I’ll do my best.
“The Premier League, they won it two times in a row before I came here. So they know how to win the Premier League. The only thing they miss now is the Champions League, you can think and read between the words, and the lines, I have been coming here for a reason.”
The 22-year-old is the top scorer in the Champions League this season with 12 goals. He’s had a record-breaking first season in England, although the goals have dried up recently with just one in his past seven games. Haaland, though, is choosing to look at it differently.
“You can think of it as one goal in seven games or 52 goals in 52 games and eight assists, I think,” he said.
