Bernardo Silva delivers Erling Haaland assessment that will worry Arsenal as Man City chase historic treble

The key weapon in Man City’s armoury is Erling Haaland – who scored his 48th goal of the season against Bayern on Wednesday night.

The striker make the difference for the Manchester club as they fight for the treble.

When asked if having a striker of Haaland’s reliability helps the team, Silva continued: “Maybe yes, because we never had that kind of player, we always played even when Kun [Sergio Aguero] was here, he’s more of a striker that drops to play with us, and Erling is a special player, a different player to what we had in the past and is someone who doesn’t have to touch the ball many times to score.

“He’s like a shadow for 85 minutes and then he touches one and it’s a goal. Because we have that special player now maybe sometimes we feel a bit more comfortable defending a bit more back because when they give us the space in behind we know we have that animal running in the back. 

“And Kevin as well when he runs through on the counter-attack that special connection between them is very dangerous. So maybe, yeah.”