Erling Haaland frustrated that Man City ‘didn’t finish the game’ against Monaco

Erling Haaland took responsibility for failing to kill off Monaco as he admitted Manchester City did not deserve to win in Wednesday’s controversial 2-2 Champions League draw in the principality.

Haaland’s first-half brace took him to 52 Champions League goals in 50 appearances in the competition, but the Norwegian was frustrated with himself for failing to take any of a handful of second-half chances before Eric Dier’s disputed last-minute penalty rescued a point for the hosts.

“Of course I don’t feel good,” Haaland said. “We didn’t win and we did something unnecessary in the second half and I don’t think we played good enough. We don’t deserve to win.

“We need more energy. We need to get at them more as we did in the first half, we dominated much more. In the second half they took the lead much more.”

Haaland had opened the scoring in the 15th minute with what was his first touch of the game, getting a toe to Josko Gvardiol’s lobbed pass to lift it over Philipp Kohn.

Jordan Teze levelled almost immediately with a fine strike but Haaland’s outstanding header put City back in front just before the break, with his two goals coming from just seven first-half touches of the ball.

Both Phil Foden and Tijjani Reijnders hit the crossbar, and Haaland’s low shot was kept out by Kohn in the second half.

“I still think I’m involved in the game, doing movements and giving space to others,” Haaland added. “It’s not just about touching the ball.

“You can be involved in the game in many other ways. That’s my job. I did my job in the first half, in the second half I didn’t.

“I didn’t score, I didn’t finish the game.”

Pep Guardiola made three changes to his side from the weekend win over Burnley with Rodri, John Stones and former Monaco man Bernardo Silva coming in for Matheus Nunes, Nico Gonzalez and Savinho.

Rodri, who missed the weekend after feeling pain in his right knee following last season’s torn anterior cruciate ligament, was replaced just after the hour by Gonzalez, who was the man then guilty of catching Dier with a raised boot to concede the late spot-kick after a long VAR check.

Mateo Kovacic, yet to feature this season after an Achilles surgery, was an unused substitute but City travelled to Monaco still without Abdukodir Khusanov, Rayan Cherki, Rayan Ait-Nouri and Omar Marmoush – players Guardiola hopes to soon recover with Cherki having returned to training.

“We need everyone and everyone will gives us something special and unique because most of the players who play a lot lately can’t play all the time,” Guardiola said.

“It’s a question of winning games. (On Wednesday) we were close. We played really good, except some moments with transitions.

“What we missed a little more is when they played a lot of long balls and we didn’t win the balls in behind so we were a little bit more open in behind. That is the only thing we could have done better. The only thing.

“The rest, with the chances and the actions that we had and with the last action, was really good.”