In the summer, Erling Haaland, who moved from Dortmund in the Bundesliga to Manchester City in the Premier League, scored a hat trick in the second game in a row.
31.8. 23:00•Updated 31.8. 23:22
When the Norwegian scarecrow Erling Haaland moved to Premier League Manchester City in the summer, it was believed that the aftermath could be crushing. The 22-year-old räkäle has offered City fans value for money.
In interviews, he has been himself, self-confident and has also shocked local journalists with his swearing. On the field, he has done what he is paid more than 400,000 euros a week for – goals.
On Wednesday, Haaland scored a hat-trick in the first half of league promotion Nottingham’s net. At the weekend, he scored three second-half goals in less than 20 minutes as City beat Crystal Palace – six goals in two consecutive halves.
Now against Nottingham, Haaland scored the first goal with his left foot from a corner by Phil Foden of concentration. Haaland deflected the second shot with his right foot into the empty net from the goal line. He headed the third in front of the goal after a corner kick situation.
Haaland is the seventh player in history to complete a hat-trick in consecutive Premier League matches.
Haaland has started his career in the Premier League by scoring nine goals in five matches. It is a new Premier League record. The previous one was eight goals, which they were capable of at the beginning of their Premier League careers Sergio Aguero and Michael Quinn.
During the match, social media began to wonder whether Haaland would break the Premier League goal record in his first season, which in the current series format (a season of 38 matches) is Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah’s 32 goals in 2017–18. The speculation is reasonable, after all, Haaland has started the season with 68 goals.
City eventually won the match 6–0. In the second half, the Argentinian striker who arrived from River Plate scored Julian Alvarez twice and once the Portuguese package João Cancelo.