At the City of Manchester stadium,
Manchester City beat
Leicester
3-1
, second to last and in the relegation zone, in a match corresponding to date 31 of the English Premier League led by Arsenal.
The leader is Arsenal (plays on Sunday against West Ham) with 73 units, followed by Manchester City, which with the victory has 70 and a game pending, while Leicester has 25 and barely surpasses Southampton with 23.
With an early goal from John Stones and an intractable Erling Braut Haaland in front of goal, Pep Guardiola's team was already thrashing after 25 minutes of the first half.
After opening the scoring at 5, the Norwegian striker scored a penalty at 13 and scored the second 12 minutes later to reach 32 goals with which he equaled Mohamed Salah (2018) as the top scorer in a Premier season League of 38 days, with eight dates to go.
In addition, he reached 47 in the season, which establishes him as the top scorer of the European season.
With his eyes also set on the Champions League match with Bayern Munich in Germany on Wednesday, Haaland did not come out to play in the second half and was replaced by world champion
Julián Alvarez
.