Gross: Manchester City may be in a running-in phase and are easier to beat than a few years ago

Tomorrow in the Champions League, Dortmund will visit Manchester to challenge Manchester City. Before the game, Dortmund player Gross was interviewed and talked about the game and Haaland.

On facing Manchester City

"I do think they are easier to beat than they were a few years ago," Pascal Gross said of tomorrow's opponent. Manchester City is currently undergoing a transition from old to new, which may have affected some of the team's performance to a certain extent. Gross also sees this: "I do think they are in a certain transition period. Many mature players who have contributed to Manchester City's success for many years have left the club, but they still have absolutely world-class players in their lineup."

Gross hopes that Dortmund can take advantage of this running-in period with Manchester City and improve their rather bleak record against Blue Moon. "They may be in a running-in stage, and many new players are integrating, but I hope our record can be improved tomorrow," the 34-year-old Gross said with a smile. The key is to successfully limit the striker Erling Haaland.

About defending Haaland

Goal-scoring machine Haaland also amazed Pascal Gross and gave him high respect. "Haaland is of course an absolutely world-class player and is currently contributing crazy statistics. In their eight rounds of the league, he scored 13 out of 20 goals. For a player like him, we must rely on the strength of the team to stop him, " Gross warned when talking about the old Dortmund player. Only as a whole can we withstand this "beast" on Manchester City's front line.

However, Pascal Gross also made it clear that the team cannot just focus on Harland alone: ​​ "I think we must work together to stop him, but Manchester City has extremely high quality in every position. Therefore, we must play our own game, defend and attack together as a team, in that case, I am still very optimistic. "