There are no adjectives to describe Erling Haaland's thundering, unique, unthinkable season.
The Norwegian ogre struck again.
Three times.
It only took him an hour of play on Sunday to score a new hat-trick, the fourth of this 2022-2023 financial year.
Against Wolverhampton, Erling Haaland dominated the debates and allowed himself to score his 23rd, 24th and 25th goals in the Premier League to give victory to Manchester City (3-0), which is two points behind Arsenal in the ranking.
And the hat-trick for Haaland ⚽️⚽️⚽️
Thanks to a gift from Wolves goalkeeper, Riyad Mahrez serves Haaland who scores his 4th hat-trick of the season 😱#MCIWOL |
#PremierLeague pic.twitter.com/qnUmtcPyGK
- CANAL + Foot (@CanalplusFoot) January 22, 2023
If the entry into his match was rather quiet, the Norwegian was able to put a boost at the end of the first period.
At the 40th minute, a first sketch of his masterpiece took shape.
After work by Riyad Mahrez on the right side, the ball arrives at the feet of Kevin De Bruyne who delivers a precise cross to the far post on the head of the blond giant, who only has to conclude over the defenders .
Entering the locker room with this slight advantage, Haaland laid the second stone five minutes after the resumption this time.
On a perfectly adjusted penalty, the number 9 of the Citizens thus scored his 24th goal in 20 games, which earned him the privilege of having now scored more goals than the top scorers of the last four seasons... at the end of the year!
Exit Aubameyang, Salah, Mané, Vardy, Kane and Son with 18 days left...
⚡️ @ErlingHaaland is scoring at an incredible rate!
His 24 #PL goals so far in 2022/23 eclipses the winning Golden Boot tally in the last four seasons 😱 pic.twitter.com/gca0vkITFo
— Premier League (@premierleague) January 22, 2023
And if that wasn't enough, the City striker took advantage of a huge blunder from the opposing goalkeeper on a raise to complete his masterclass with a hat-trick.
No one in history had scored so many goals in so few days.
With each meeting, the unthinkable is pushed back, as much as the limits of a player of which one wonders if he really has them.
Faced with so much ease, Pep Guardiola even decided to put his star back in the fridge from the hour mark. Who knows what carnage he could still have caused if he had stayed longer on the pitch?
