Haaland runs rampant as Man City beat Man United 3-0 in Premier League

Erling Haaland struck doubly for Manchester City arsenic they cruised to a 3-0 win implicit Manchester United successful English football’s Premier League, giving Pep Guardiola’s broadside bragging rights successful the latest variation of the derby.

Phil Foden besides scored for City successful his archetypal commencement of the play connected Sunday, heading successful Jeremy Doku’s transverse successful the 18th minute. Doku squeezed brilliantly done United’s defence and had his archetypal transverse blocked, but dug retired a 2nd that Foden leapt to usher in.

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Haaland scored his archetypal of the day successful the 53rd minute, erstwhile Doku muscled past Lenny Yoro earlier sliding a walk to the large Norwegian, who chipped the shot implicit goalkeeper Altay Bayindir.

The 25-year-old, who charged astatine United’s defence similar a bulldozer each day, completed his treble successful the 68th erstwhile the visitors mislaid the ball. Haaland, lining up astatine the centre circle, easy outpaced Harry Maguire to Bernardo Silva’s shot guardant for different one-on-one with Bayindir.

The lucifer lacked the intrigue of derbies past, with some teams going into the crippled mid-table aft sputtering starts.

City climbed to eighth with their 2nd triumph from four, portion United are astatine 14th with conscionable 1 victory.

Haaland astir had a hat-trick, acknowledgment to United’s shambles astatine the back. He had Bayindir beaten, but missed a sitter to deed the post. Guardiola was already celebrating, but past held his caput successful disbelief.

The triumph capped rather a week for Haaland, who scored 5 goals connected Tuesday erstwhile Norway pummelled Moldova 11-1 to support their cleanable grounds successful men’s World Cup qualifying.

He besides scored his 50th extremity successful his 50th location Premier League crippled for City. In the competition’s history, lone Alan Shearer required less location appearances, 47, to deed 50 goals.

He astir acceptable up Tijjani Reijnders for a 4th City extremity precocious successful the game, but Reijnders chipped the shot conscionable wide.

City had six shots connected people to United’s two, but Guardiola’s caller goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma rapidly proved his worth, diving to propulsion distant an aboriginal changeable from Benjamin Sesko and past making a superb diving prevention from a second-half changeable by Bryan Mbeumo.

Foden told Sky Sports that helium was pleased to people aft receiving immoderate disapproval this season.

“There’s been a batch of talk, everything I spot astatine the infinitesimal is rather negative, but that is the satellite we unrecorded successful erstwhile you play astatine the highest level,” helium said.

“It’s astir speechmaking the comments and trying to respond arsenic champion arsenic I tin and travel backmost to my level.”

He besides praised Haaland’s performance.

“A implicit performance, particularly the mode helium held up the ball. He did everything today: defending, attacking, moving successful behind, doing the soiled work,” helium said.

Haaland, meanwhile, told Sky Sports that City “needed” that triumph aft a hard commencement to the season.

“You could consciousness it arsenic good from the fans,” Haaland said. “We needed [the win], you could consciousness a spot other today, and I americium truthful relieved and truthful blessed that we managed to bash this each together.”

United skipper Bruno Fernandes said his broadside should person done overmuch better, but said determination were positives from the game.

“The effect is precise atrocious and atrocious connected us, but I deliberation determination are 2 ways of looking astatine this crippled arsenic the goals could person been avoided. On the ball, we were positive, brave and playing the shot forward,” helium said.

“City were astute to get the goals the mode they did and person a precise bully squad and precise bully players.”

Elsewhere successful the Premier League connected Sunday, Mohamed Salah’s stoppage-time punishment ensured Liverpool maintained their winning commencement to the play with a 1-0 triumph astatine promoted broadside Burnley.

With British grounds signing Alexander Isak forced to hold for his Liverpool debut, having been near retired the squad for the travel to Lancashire, the champions struggled to interruption down a dogged location broadside successful the archetypal half.

After a regroup astatine the break, the visitors upped the ante successful the 2nd half, with Dominik Szoboszlai yet forcing a good prevention from Martin Dubravka successful the Burnley goal.

Burnley were holding connected for a well-earned constituent with ease, earlier the shot agonisingly struck substitute Hannibal Mejbri’s limb successful the punishment country and Salah slotted the spot footwear into the nett successful the 95th infinitesimal to interruption location hearts.

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