Erling Haaland is standing again. Manchester City received Wolverhampton under pressure from the victory achieved by Arsenal a few hours before against Bournemouth (3-0), but the Norwegian striker took the responsibility and freed his team with a hat trick in the first half. After the break he scored a fourth goal.
This is Haaland’s ninth hat trick with the Citizens in just two seasons. At 23 years old, he has amassed 21 since the start of his career…
Haaland opened the scoring in the 12th minute by converting a penalty made by Rayan Aït-Nouri on Josko Gvardiol. Late in the first half, he made it 2-0 by finishing a Rodri cross with a helpless header after clearly outrunning the opposition of Nelson Semedo (35′).
In added time of the first half, Haaland made it 3-0 by taking a new penalty awarded to him Nelson Semedo when, after escaping alone, he was preparing to shoot when José Sá came out.
24 goals in the Premier and 35 in the season
In the second half, Hwang Hee-chan closed the gap, but Haaland responded on the next play, bringing the score to 4-1 after controlling a long ball from Phil Foden, setting up Max Kilman and unleashing a whip with his left foot. he was nailed halfway up the side of the post.
Haaland consolidated himself as the Premier League’s top scorer with 25 goals, five more than Cole Palmer (Chelsea), in 28 games and reached 36 goals in total for the season in 41 games.
Source: La Verdad
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