Erling Haaland has been surprisingly named on the bench for Manchester City’s Premier League clash with Wolves this afternoon.
City are looking to end their four-game winless run in the league as they take on bottom-of-the-table Wolves at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
But Pep Guardiola has decided to ring the changes for after his side’s midweek defeat to Bodo/Glimt, with Haaland and Phil Foden dropping to the bench.
Haaland has scored just one goal in his last eight matches in all competitions in what has proven a jam-paced start to the season for City.
Guardiola has publicly raised concerns about Haaland’s workload, admitting recently that the 25-year-old is ‘exhausted’.
The Spaniard withdrew Haaland in the closing stages of last weekend’s defeat to Manchester United and has now seemingly opted to bench his star striker to try and manage his minutes.
In midweek, Haaland admitted that City’s current fixture load is ‘ridiculous, telling TNT Sports: ‘I don’t want to speak about how I feel, I do my best whenever I am on the pitch and I am on the pitch quite often because we play ridiculous amount of games.
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