diff --git a/timm/models/metaformers.py b/timm/models/metaformers.py
index 82e44579..01857167 100644
--- a/timm/models/metaformers.py
+++ b/timm/models/metaformers.py
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ class MetaFormer(nn.Module):
             return x
         
         x = self.global_pool(x)
-        x = x.flatten(1)
+        x = x.squeeze()
         x = self.norm(x)
         # (B, H, W, C) -> (B, C)
         x = self.head(x)