Ecstasy at City: Come back from 0-2 down with hat-trick in 19 minutes from Haaland

He said nothing in the first part and shouted everything in the second. The phenomenon Erling Halland and its disproportionate dimensions, measured with a hat-trick in 19 minutes, directed the use of soccer and passion, ecstasy in the form of a return from a City of Manchester trailing 0-2 at the break, trapped in the thoughtful and organized plan of Crystal palace. But, in a fusion of Guardiola’s old spirit and the new, of touch and gallop, of the midfielder’s finesse and the voracious ambition of the greedy striker, joy blossomed in Etihad Stadium in the second part.

Bernardo Silva, who City loves and claims whatever they claim from Can Barça, laid the first stone and here Haaland raised a monument to comebacks with a hat-trick in 19 minutes. It is also a necessary tribute to the figure of the pure center forward in which Guardiola wants to build the next stage in the relentless evolution of his football. What can you say to the Norwegian at the break, who had nothing in the first half and monopolized everything in the second. crazy businessone from the goal and one from the board.

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4.- Manchester City: Edison; Walker, Dias, Stones, Cancelo (Gündogan, d. 61); De Bruyne (Palmer, d. 89), Rodri, Bernardo Silva; Mahrez (Julián Álvarez, m. 61), Haaland (Sergio Gómez, m. 84) and Foden.

2.- Crystal Palace: Guaita; Clyne (Olise, d. 74), Ward, Andersen, Guehi, Mitchell (Richards, d. 57); Ayew (Mateta, d. 74), Doucoure, Schlupp, Eze; and Edward (Hughes, d. 67).

The objectives: 0-1, m. 4: Stones, own purpose; 0-2, m. 21: Anderson; 1-2, m. 52: Bernardo Silva; 2-2, m. 62: Halland; 3-2, m. 70: Dandelion; 4-2, m. 81: Halland.

Referee: Graham Scott. He showed yellow cards to Foden (m. 86) of Manchester City and Mateta (m. 86) and Guehi (m. 88) of Crystal Palace.

Incidents: match corresponding to the fourth day of the English Premier League played at the Etihad Stadium in front of nearly 50,000 spectators.

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The beginning did not foresee such madness. Crystal Palace applied all the sacred principles within the trilogy of rules necessary to surprise teams with City’s identity and power: solidity, counterattack and set pieces. And the latter gave full meaning to the proposition of ‘The Eagles’. Patrick Vieira’s men quickly impressed City from the approach. A lateral center is holed in his own door through stones without completing minute 2. The years will pass and, benefiting from Guardiola’s endless creativity, the ‘citizens’ will get richer and richer in the offensive aspect but will continue to suffer in lateral centers, a weakness that Liverpool have well explored and exploited all these years.

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City prepared to recite the script to solve granite defensive systems like Crystal Palace, which debuted on the scoreboard so quickly that it had no time to show its complex defensive plan organized in a town 5-4-1, Vieira’s harmonics in every aspect without the ball. To tilt and shut in, to help each other and to occupy spaces at all heights to see any ‘citizen’ movement.

However, except for one ball that was holed by Halland Inside the area with no consequences in a deep departure, City barely had a few minutes to show their proposition as Crystal Palace tried to make Guardiola’s men more anxious. In 20 minutes, Andersen he beat Ederson from a corner and chaos was brewing at the Etihad Stadium. Another set piece, another center. The fault where all the virtues of Manchester City have disappeared.

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With the initial avalanche halted, Guardiola’s team was able to read Vieira’s defensive system more calmly, still keeping everything predictable. The City, convinced that the imbalance is in the so-called ‘indefensible space’ On the part of Santpedor, he tried to filter the balls in the space created between the lane and the central defender, especially on the right wing, where the roles of receiver in the lime line and breaker in space are exchanged. Mahrez, Bernardo Silva, and De Bruyne. Centers multiplied, but there was no finisher apart from a header from Foden towards the end of the first half.

Trapped between the central trident of the Crystal Palace and the double pivot, without giving centers and without descending to receive, Halland was absent in the first 45 minutes while, on the other hand, Edward -the ‘Eagles’ forward-, gave a lecture on how to oxygenate your team when it is dominated. The striker handled the ball, made the game temporary and gave oxygen to his teammates. Vieira’s team, with great taste, managed to prolong possessions and played one or two pressing chances to overcome City’s post-loss pressure. Accustomed to kneading the ball, nothing could create more anxiety for the ‘Sky Blues’ to interfere with the property.

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And Manchester City whispers of Pep’s wise decisions began to emerge, andl genius of the great Haaland and all the convincing Crystal Palace stories were withdrawn so that the unwavering words of the ‘Sky Blues’ prevailed to trace the returns to the three screams of the intense and wild Haaland and another of the smooth Bernardo Silva. Transferred from the right wing, Barça’s desire was received on the right side which was released from the brand after Mahrez dragged the unsolvable Mitchell along with its internal movement. The clinical shot adjusted to the post to bring out the joy in the Etihad Stadium and the ecstasy in the City game.

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The permanent presence of Bernardo on the right wing, the greater participation of Haaland in the associative game and the higher speed that was printed in the game promoted an improvement in the football of the ‘citizens’, which also reached football through the emotional return that was tracked in the 17 minutes between Silva’s goal and the second of the former Dortmund . In fact, it demoralizes anyone the Haaland phenomenon, who waited to express himself in a hurry, three goals in 19 minutes. Elite header goal in the middle Foden in 62′, as an opportunist after a short combination in 70′ and as a cool and accurate striker in 81′, taking a pass into space and kissing the net after shielding his body.

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What Crystal Palace built in 45 minutes, City demolished in 20. Because they decided to Erling Hallanddetermined to start an impressive term in the Premier League.

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