Jürgen Klinsmann

Like today, they gave a lot of chances to Newcastle.

They could have scored a couple of goals.

So you might want to take those moments right now.

But once crunch time comes on in March and April, when the Champions League matters really with the knockout phase, and obviously the Premier League will go into the final run, that's when you want to be turned on.

And I think, yeah, Pep Guardiola went through those periods so many times in his manager career.

that he knows that maybe it's not the worst thing right now to have a little bit of a low-energy moment, but then hopefully in a couple of weeks from now we see a different face of Man City.

I don't think it's his first one, but he went through a couple of moments like that for a few weeks in different moments already.

Obviously, there's a logic to it.

When you don't score as a striker, you go back on the training field and you work hard and you wait for the moment when you put in the next one.

Overall, as you said, he started very, very strong this season.

and he scored already enough goals where other strikers would be happy for the entire season to score that amount, which is now their halfway break.

I mean, Alon will come back, he will kind of go through these moments, and obviously we have a World Cup also waiting for him with his Norway team, which hasn't been qualified for a long time for a World Cup.

I think, you know, there might be, as I said before, the overall performance, you know, when you choose the bad moments, bad periods, maybe now is a good time to choose that period right now, you know, in January, February.

But when it's crunch time, you know, Erling Haaland will be there and he will score the goals.

And maybe already in the Carabao final against Arsenal, you know, he will be on the score sheet.

But I'm not worried about him because he's a personality.

He's a professional that when he goes through tough moments, he knows what to do.

You know, he goes back to the training field and he works his butt off.

That's what he's going to do.

And he will come out even stronger, as usual.