Erling Haaland sensed "a hungry club" when he returned from international duty and began training again with Manchester City.
Pep Guardiola's players had dispersed for the past two weeks to play for their countries and only had a few training sessions together before producing a blitz on Manchester United in the derby that had them 4-0 up at half-time and 6-1 up in the second half before two late consolations saw it end 6-3. If there was the potential to lose rhythm in the international break, City instead looked even better than where they left off at Wolves.
Central to that was Haaland, who scored another hat-trick and also provided two assists as Phil Foden also bagged a treble. The whole team was unplayable but it was the prolific finishing of the two City fans in the team that allowed them to rack up such a score.
