Manchester City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne has dismissed doubts around teammate Erling Haaland.

Haaland struck the winner at Crystal Palace on Saturday.

De Bruyne said: "There is always a first part of the season and a second part. I feel in the second part there is a lot more going on. Teams are more well organised. They play for more also, at both ends of the table. So I feel people are more prepared in every sense of the way.

"Maybe he was also a little bit more prolific when he got the chances, but I don't feel as if we have to complain about the output of Erling in any way.

"I think he is fine. In the Crystal Palace game he had maybe two or three chances and if he scored two I don't think there is any issue. But people are always anticipating him to score two or three goals whereas his average is probably a goal a game so that seems fine for me."