On Friday Pep Guardiola suggested Erling Haaland’s teammates should support the Norwegian in the goalscoring stakes. Cut to 48 hours later and guess who did the business yet again – twice – for Manchester City to take them into a 2-1 half-time lead that proved unassailable?
Step forward the phenomenon who now has 13 Premier League goals this season and a seismic total of 98 in 107 appearances in England’s top flight. After him, this year, Burnley’s Maxime Estève – via two own goals – is City’s highest league contributor; Phil Foden, Tijjani Reijnders, Matheus Nunes, Rayan Cherki and Nico O’Reilly (in this game) have all scored once.
