Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City faced the Saints on Matchday nine and Erling Haaland again managed to get his name on the scoresheet. The Cityzens won the match very comfortably with a score of 4-0.
While Guardiola’s lethal striker, Erling Haaland scored his 15th English top-tier football goal in just his ninth match. Jack Grealish passed the ball to Joao Cancelo on the left flank, and Erling Haaland swept the ball into the bottom-left corner.
It was just another match when Manchester City dominated the whole scenario. Southampton didn’t had any chances to fight back or to even get a consolation goal.
Joao Cancelo and Phil Foden his their names on the scoresheet after the first half. Cancelo’s left-footed rocket was enough to get past Gavin Bazunu while Foden’s strike wasn’t lesser praiseworthy. It was a really busy day at work for Irish goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu.
Riyad Mahrez got the third with a nicely-struck volley and, just as it looked as though the inevitable goal would allude him. And the credit also goes to Rodri because of his brilliant cross.
Talking about Erling Haaland, the Norwegian striker has already scored three hat-tricks in the Premier League. He became the player to reach the peak in the fewest number of matches with just eight. He broke the record of Micheal Owen with a huge difference.
What did Pep Guardiola have to say about Erling Haaland and his goal?
“I’m so upset with him – he didn’t score three goals. That’s why there’s a petition to sack him from the Premier League!” Guardiola joked in his post-match news conference.
“Expectations here are so high that people expect he’s going to score every game three or four goals. But in the end he was there to score it. He helped us again, keeping the ball and fighting and I think Erling played really well today.”
