Erling Haaland has been the main protagonist of the Manchester City 5-1 win over Fulham on the fourth day of the Premier League. The Norwegian scored three goals and gave an assist Julian Alvarez.
The reigning Premier League champion has started his attempt to become the first team in the history of the competition to win the title four consecutive times. The English team has achieved the full of points, twelve out of twelve, before the selection break. Their victory against Fulham was worked on because in the first half they couldn’t be as superior to their opponents as usual.
A new record broken
Haaland it ended the hope of the visitors to take something positive from their visit to the Etihad Stadium with three goals and one assist. An impossible performance to stop for the defenders of the London team, who came from doing a great job against Arsenal and Tottenham. The Norwegian striker became the player who has needed the fewest games to reach the figure of 40 goals scored in the history of the Premier League. Only 39 encounters. What has meant that the praise for him and his voracity in the area do not cease, since other great scorers such as Cristiano Ronaldo or Harry Kane do not come close to their figures.
“This boy was born scoring goals and he will continue to score goals all his life. It wouldn’t be a surprise if he got the same numbers as last year, but it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t.. Today he was very good helping other players as well. He dished out an assist and has a lot of influence on the team. It’s not just about scoring goals”, said Juanma Lillo at the press conference after the match. One has to remember that Pep Guardiola has back problems and his second coach is taking care of some of the tasks in the field and before the media.
doubts cleared
Manchester City came from beating Burnley in the last minutes of the game with a goal from Rodrigo, before, the Scandinavian ‘cyborg’ had scored a goal and missed a penalty, so there could be some doubt as to whether he would take responsibility again of the maximum penalty: “First of all, Erling Haaland is someone strong. We had no doubt that he was going to take that penalty. He has scored many penalties. If we had suffered another penalty in the same game that he missed, he would have taken it. That’s because he earned the right to cast them. The one that failed last weekend was not bad. He hit the post and almost went in, ”explained a delighted Juanma Lillo because his team started the 2023/24 Premier League with full points.
2023-09-03 14:30:37
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