‘Game was chaotic but super happy’published at 22:26 GMT 10 December
FT: Real Madrid 1-2 Man City
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Manchester City striker Erling Haaland, speaking to TNT Sports:
“Difficult to come here, it’s a tough place. Game was a bit chaotic, we couldn’t really control it. We get the win in the end, super happy.
“This is a place you want to play, these are games you want to play. With this new format in Champions League you get to play more games which is nice. I like it.
“It could have looked completely different today if we didn’t win because of the Leverkusen defeat, this win is really important. Two more games left. We need to finish strong and hopefully we can be in the first eight because then we’re through.”
Boost seeing Kylian Mbappe not in team? “We know about their injuries, we have some too but they have many. You don’t want anyone to be injured but we expected him to play. I expected to come up against Kylian today. But when a player like that is out – you’re not happy because you want to play the best – but it gives you a bit of a psychological boost.
“You want to play the best players and after one minute [Raul] Asencio was trying to push me and beef with me which I like personally – I don’t mind it. With Antonio Rudiger as well we have had some great battles, but today he wanted it too much and we got the penalty.”
Chase down Arsenal in Premier League? “I don’t like to speak to much on this because we should focus on ourselves and City have been so good at that for 10 years, don’t think about others and focus on ourselves. Now we need to focus on Sunday – who is it? Palace on Sunday – games are coming fast. Look at the schedule it’s incredible and it’s about staying fit and taking it game by game and hopefully winning on Sunday.”
