The stat that proves that Julian Alvarez is being more important than Haaland

Julian Alvarez is having an important start to the season with Manchester City. The player went from being a player who had to wait his turn against Erling Haaland, to becoming a problem for Pep Guardiola, because he has no option other than putting him in from the start of the games, because he always performs and against Brighton, time once again proved the Spanish coach right. Julian Alvarez scored another goal.

In the match against Brighton, for the 'skyblues', the goals were scored by the usual players, a fired-up Julián Álvarez and the inevitable Erling Haaland, while on the 'seagull' side, the goal was scored for the second time in the last three days by the Barça player Ansu Fati, who entered the field after the hour mark and revolutionized a match that quickly put Pep Guardiola's team in the face.

Doku, who moments before had had the first of the afternoon in his boots, left Pascal Gross behind, reached the baseline and gave the 1-0 to Julián Álvarez, who this season even puts them in semi-final. Brighton's dwarfs grew, as they lost Welbeck due to injury after 15 minutes and before the 20th minute saw the hosts double their lead through Haaland, who broke his 3-game drought without scoring or assisting for the citizen team in this season.

The stat that proves the great level of Julian Alvarez

The Argentine forward has participated in a total of 12 goals so far this season, scoring 7 and assisting on 5 occasions. On the other hand, Erling Haaland has done his thing, but on 11 occasions where he has scored 9 goals and provided 2 assists. Curiously, the Argentine forward is being more decisive than Haaland at the start of this season and Pep Guardiola has a nice problem to solve and that is to maintain the coexistence of two of the best forwards in the world.