Alan Shearer has praised Everton's physical approach to handling Erling Haaland and believes further teams may now follow suit in a bid to thwart the Norwegian.
Haaland opened the scoring on Saturday afternoon against Frank Lampard's side, but was uncharacteristically hot-headed throughout the game and was unable to find a way past the Blues' resilient backline during the second half.
Going head-to-head with Ben Godfrey at the Etihad Stadium, the Premier League top scorer was seen wildly celebrating his goal in the face of the Everton centre-back and was not shy of pushing Godfrey around during the contest. Haaland ended the first half by putting in a late challenge on Vitalii Mykolenko, resulting in a yellow card.
