Craig Burley

Interestingly, Jan said something, I think it was Thursday, he said, Erling Haaland doesn't necessarily like to have another striker around the bottom.

Some strikers do, some strikers like to work with a striker.

Jan said he doesn't like to have that.

He likes to have players sometimes floating in, but he doesn't like to have somebody kind of there and making it a little busy in that area.

So I thought that was an interesting point, but Guardiola keeps going back to it.

Surely Pep knows that, though.

If that's the case, why is Pep playing Semenyo beside him?

If Hanna likes to be on his own, that's why you've got a jerky.

That's why you've got Foden, because they're not going to get in his way.

They're going to supply him, if anything else, and then maybe come up with something themselves.

So the fact that Pep's trying to manual beside him when he doesn't like having somebody up there, it's a bit of a head-scratcher.

Do you remember the start of the season when Stevie and I said on the show, their problem is going to be their back line, right?

But at the time, their stats were... They wouldn't back that up.

Because they were defending okay, right?

And we said, well, yeah, but I don't think this has got longevity when you look at the players.

But Erling Haaland was scoring goals.

Erling Haaland started the season like a house on fire and it masked any potential issues.

As soon as they stop scoring and he starts tinkering with the team as much as he is, then the back four is creaking and cracking.

They can't keep a clean sheet.

I mean, they could have lost 4-5 in Madrid.