Pep Guardiola explains it was too risky to play Erling Haaland against Copenhagen

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Manchester City forward Erling Haaland was rested for Manchester City’s goalless draw against Copenhagen on Tuesday.

Haaland was an intriguing omission from City’s starting XI and remained on the substitutes bench for the entirety of the draw at the Parken Stadium.

Guardiola has given his reasons for benching the prolific Norweigan, saying that fatigue has started to take its toll.

Guardiola said: “He finished the game against Southampton so so tired and he didn’t recover well these two, three days. Yesterday was not good, today was a little bit better but not perfect and we decided not to take the risk.”

Haaland has scored 20 goals in 13 appearances for Manchester City in all competitions and Manchester City fans will be expecting the forward to return to the starting XI against Liverpool this weekend.