Pep Guardiola insists Haaland’s physical encounters are a result of opposing defenders’ rough tactics
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00:00It was emotional for Erling, it's not easy when you're 90 minutes and there's no Gabriel,
00:05the central defender, and push him and hug him and hug him and kiss him,
00:09and these kind of things, at the end, the human being has to react.
00:14Arsenal is a physical team, in a good way, in many aspects,
00:20and at the end, what happens at the end for the motions, it happens.
00:25It's absolutely done.
00:27No worries about Erling, because he's usually quite a disciplined player in those terms?
00:32Listen, we cannot blame discipline on Erling.
00:38Come on. It's the defenders that push Erling, Erling doesn't push the defenders.
00:43It's the defenders that create problems for Erling, he's a striker.
00:48Come on, now we're going to say that Erling is the guy who makes physical contact for the central defenders.
00:54All central defenders in the Premier League go against him, not him, to push them against them.
00:59Come on.