Expeditious.
38 minutes of play, Wednesday at the Etihad Stadium and Manchester City already leads 3-0 against promoted Nottingham Forest.
Three goals from Erling Haaland in the 12th, 23rd and 38th minutes, a hat-trick in 26 minutes... A performance of choice which launched Pep Guardiola's men towards another big success... "It was great, he didn't there is nothing else to say”, judged the player at the microphone of BT Sports at the end of the match, finally winning 6-0 by his team, with a goal from Joao Cancelo and a brace from Julian Alvarez, another rookie summer.
By scoring a second consecutive hat-trick, the Norwegian striker set two new records for the English league.
The 22-year-old became the fastest player to score 2 Premier League hat-tricks when he got there in his 5th game for City, while the previous best mark was 21 appearances by Demba Ba.
Above all, he has already brought his total to 9 achievements in his first 5 matches, one more than Sergio Agüero, already in the jersey of City and Mick Quinn with Newcastle.
The goal that sealed a second hat-trick in two matches!
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“The idea was to keep doing what we did in the second half against (Crystal) Palace, just play, play, play and we knew we would have chances.
That's exactly what we did and so, yeah, it was fun.
I try to listen to Pep (Guardiola) as much as possible and combine with the guys because they are incredible footballers and without them I wouldn't be able to score goals,” he continued.
To those who wanted to minimize his performance with Borussia Dortmund (62 goals in 67 games) by claiming that the Bundesliga was of a lower level than the Premier League, the answer is scathing.
Haaland is insatiable and his hot debut is just confirmation of his incredible talent.
"That's why I came here," he exults.
You can see, we're playing so well, we feel good and we're going to get even better.
So it's going to be fun."
Maybe not for City's future opponents.
