Erling Haaland offers curious verdict after destroying former Liverpool star - 'Motivates me'

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"First five minutes, he [Van den Berg] just kept on pushing me so I said alright, let’s have it. So then I started pushing him back," Haaland said.

I think it helps me because I was a bit tired before the game; going into the game I was thinking it’s going to be tough. All praise to him honestly, he made me want to do that." Though Haaland's goal secured a big win for Manchester City, Pep Guardiola refused to be drawn on the state of the Premier League title race in the aftermath of the clash.

"I don’t know," he said. "In Monaco, I had the feeling we did many things good; today we defended better as a team.