With Haaland’s goal, Manchester City thrash once again in the Premier League

In the 29th round of the league, Easter Saturday in England couldn’t have a better result than another thrashing of manchester city. Counting on a filling from a striker’s bicycle goal Erling Haalandthe current deputy leader of the Premier League entered the field looking for another victory to continue in the tireless hunt for the Arsenal and showed a lot of competence away from home by beating the bottom southampton by 4 to 1 in St. Mary’s Stadiumin Southampton.

First time

Even with a very disputed first half, despite the high possession of the ball, the club commanded by Pep Guardiola knew how to defend himself when required. The home team, even with a weaker squad than City, had chances to open the scoring in the opening minutes, the winger Sulemana he was very smart when he noticed the opponent’s exposed defense. But in the last minute he was intercepted in a great exit by the goalkeeper ederson.

At the end of the first stage of the confrontation, Sulemana was again looking for the Southampton goal but failed in a dangerous finish passing close to the crossbar. Until that moment of the game, the Manchester team was struggling to break through the opposing defense and needed their main duo to appear. It was enough for the additions to arrive so that Erling Haaland It is Kevin De Bruyne broke two records in the same match. The first of them came in a pass practically with his hand, where the Belgian put the number 9 in front of the goal and in his first opportunity he scored 1-0.

Second time

Manchester City’s dominance became much more present in the second half, unlike what happened in the first 45 minutes. In the 15th minute, in a dispute for the ball at the end, Gundogan had all the whim to look for a beautiful finish but ended up taking too much of the goal, almost going into the goalkeeper’s angle.

One hour or another the quality of the team would be a factor that would unbalance the confrontation, in a very well organized counterattack, De Bruyne again distributed a beautiful pass finding Grealish which after a rebound from the goalkeeper scored, putting 2-0 on the scoreboard.

A “roof“The victory was still to come, with the most beautiful goal. Grealish at the tip after receiving a through ball, looked for Haaland who, with his unstoppable flair for scoring goals, turned into a half-bike doing a painting. The Norwegian reached the 30 mark. goals in his first season on English soil, a milestone not seen since 1999/00.

With a huge loss on the scoreboard, the home team needed to react and with two changes right away they managed to discount to 3×1. djenepo made the move, dribbling through the City defense until he found Mara on the penalty spot and a firm low shot was able to overcome the Brazilian Ederson and give Southampton hope.

That hope didn’t last long, it only took 5 minutes for De Bruyne to face the goalkeeper, the number 17 was put on when he was going to finish and the penalty was scored. Julian Alvarez who had taken Haaland’s place, hit the middle very coldly and closed the game account, ending up with a chocolate in the middle of Easter.

^{Check out the best moments of Manchester City’s rout. (Video: Playback/Youtube)}

Now City awaits the clash of the Arsenal this Sunday (09) against Liverpool to know the advantage you need to discount, after today’s victory, 5 points separate the two teams and with the same amount of games played. However, it is necessary to remember that the manchester blues have a late game against whest ham and a head-to-head against Arsenal later this month. For the Southampton side, the fight to get out of the bottom of the English Championship remains, there are 23 points in 30 matches.

Featured Photo: Haaland celebrating Manchester City’s victory. Playback: Twitter/@ManCity