The path of the Manchester City in the new Premier League season he continues to be perfect. In his quest to achieve an unprecedented fifth championship, The Citizens were an ungrateful visitor, defeating West Ham United 3-1 at the Olympic Stadium in London. The great figure was Erling Haaland who, with his hat-trick this week, has now scored seven goals and is on track to win the third Golden Boot of his career in the British First Division.
If Manchester had already embraced each other earlier this week for the return of the musical group Oasis, now they wanted to repeat the celebrations on their trip to the London capital. Guardiola’s men already knew about Arsenal’s stumble in the first round of the match, so they started the match looking to open the scoring from the start to take the lead.
With explosive associations between Kevin De Bruyne and Jack Grealish In the first few minutes, the Sky Blues threatened the goal guarded by Alphonse Areola, but without finding a destination. All they needed was a little precision to unlock the Hammers’ goalkeeper’s lock.
Precisely, that opening would come from the magic foot of Bernardo Silva. As if it were a master key, The Portuguese found Erling Haaland with a pass between the two centre-backs and the Norwegian was unforgiving with a shot close to the post in the 10th minute.
City were getting more and more emboldened with increasingly dangerous approaches. In fact, in the 17th minute, Kevin De Bruyne hit the left post when the West Ham goalkeeper was beaten. However, despite the visitors’ power, the Londoners quickly equalised.
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With a triangulation between Aaron Wan Bissaka, Mohammed Kudus and Lucas Paquetathe Hammers found a neat way out from the back. There, Bowen received the ball on the wing, overflowed and Ruben Dias deflected the ball against his own goal.Out of nowhere the score was tied.
However, the android struck again. In the 29th minute, Rico Lewis made his way into the box and played subtly with the centre-forward. Haaland was not one for formalities and fired a missile to put his team back in front..
In the second half, the tone of the match became more dynamic. With the home side playing a more prominent role, Kudus took the lead as the star of the attack. Thus, in the 51st minute he had the clearest chance of the second half after fiercely hitting Ederson’s crossbar.
For the next 30 minutes, both teams experienced a drought in terms of shots on goal and the 2-1 scoreline seemed to be taking hold. However, Haaland wanted to continue adding to his personal tally and his goalscoring record. After a pass from Matheus Nunes, the number nine accelerated to receive it behind the centre-backs, chipped the ball and sealed the third goal. With the hat-trick, his second consecutive after the one he scored last week against Ipswich TownThe former Borussia Dortmund player reached seven goals this season, a fact that allows him to position himself as the absolute scorer of the competition..
This way, Manchester City have gone 12 consecutive games without losing in the Premier League (considering last season) and are preparing to host Brentford on the next matchdayThe biggest challenge is just around the corner from the FIFA date, when they host Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium.
