Featured Image Credit: TNT Sports
Topics: Man City, Champions League, AS Monaco
Jack Kenmare
Erling Haaland was in no mood to sugarcoat Manchester City's performance on Wednesday night as they were held to a dramatic 2-2 draw against Monaco in the Champions League.
The Norwegian continued his superb start to the 2025-26 season with a first-half double to take his tally to 52 goals in 50 Champions League games.
After a quiet opening 15 minutes at the Stade Louis II, the prolific Haaland scored with his first touch after latching on to Josko Gvardiol's pass, but it didn't take long for the home side to equalise.
Jordan Teze levelled the score just three minutes later with a perfectly hit strike from outside the area.
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City dominated from that moment onwards and after long spells of possession, Haaland bagged his brace on the stroke of half-time, heading in from Nico O'Reilly's cross to hand the visitors a deserved 2-1 lead.
Pep Guardiola's side continued to dominate but, after Eric Dier was kicked in the head by Nico Gonzalez, the former Spurs midfielder converted a 90th-minute penalty to snatch an unexpected point.
Speaking in his post-match interview with TNT Sports, a far-from-impressed Haaland was asked for his thoughts on the game.
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"Of course, I don't feel good. We don't win," he said. "We do something unnecessarily in the second half and I don't think we played good enough. So we don't deserve to win and yeah, that's why."
Asked what was missing from City's performance, Haaland replied: "I think we need more energy. We need to get at them more as we did in the first half. We dominated in the second half. I don't think it's good enough."
As seen in the footage above, a question about Monaco's penalty followed and Haaland gave a typically no-nonsense response. "I didn't see it again, but I don't know," he said. "If you kick someone in the face, I guess it's a penalty."
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The Norwegian was then asked about the following about his brace.
TNT reporter Olivia Buzaglo asked: "As a striker, in the first half, you only had seven touches. Two of those were goals. Are we underestimating how difficult that is when you're not involved in the game, but to then go and score two goals like that?"
He replied: "I still think I'm involved in the game, doing movements and giving space to others. So it's not only about touching the ball if you're involved in the game or not. I think you can be involved in the game many other ways and that's my job."
Haaland added: "I did my job in the first half. In the second half, I didn't."