Erling Haaland’s sixth Premier League hat-trick, completed in the opening 45 minutes and featuring two penalties, signalled the goalscoring phenomenon is back in ruthless mood at the very best of times for Manchester City.
After this crushing victory, in which Haaland added a peach of a fourth after the interval, City can do what Arsenal have been doing to them: pile the pressure on in this tightest of title races by winning at Fulham next Saturday, move ahead two points and make the Gunners think before kicking-off at Manchester United 24 hours later.
