Manchester City easily beats relegation candidate Southampton - and presents an impressive new statistic to put the never-ending run of exceptional striker Erling Haaland in a new perspective. Of course, the Norwegian scores again this time.
Erling Haaland just keeps on scoring: the ex-Dortmunder scored 4-0 (2-0) against FC Southampton in the 65th minute. In the ninth league game there are already 15 goals. The exceptional Norwegian striker has scored 20 times in all competitions. Joao Cancelo (20th) scored 1-0 for the Citizens against relegation candidate Southampton, Phil Foden (32nd) increased for the hosts. The third City goal went to Riyad Mahrez (49th).
Manchester City presented an impressive new stat after the game to illustrate Haaland's run, which has already smashed all league starting records since moving from Borussia Dortmund to the Premier League: "In five appearances this season, Erling Haaland has played in the Etihad stadium scored as many Premier League goals as the entire Manchester City team in the full 2006/07 season (10)," the club wrote on its website. As tables-14. Man City was only able to avoid relegation back then, while the red part of the city was celebrating: Manchester United won the championship at the time.
15 goals were also the mark of the most successful City attacker of the past round: Kevin de Bruyne also scored 15 times in 2021/2022 - in 30 games. In any case, coach Pep Guardiola was "very satisfied" with his striker: "Erling Haaland had a few chances again. He scored a great goal. He's an incredible weapon for us, a great danger."
Goal scorer Riyad Mahrez meanwhile tried after the easy victory to sort the euphoria around his attacker a little more down to earth: "Haaland is part of our team, he's our striker. Like any other striker, if we find him, it's perfect because he is extremely dangerous," said the Algerian, who scored his first goal of the season against Southampton. "If not, there are a lot of players and everyone can make a difference."
With 23 points, City initially took over the lead from Arsenal (21), who only play against Jürgen Klopp's Liverpool on Sunday. It was the third straight league win for Guardiola's side. National player Ilkay Gündogan was not part of the starting XI and was not substituted on.
Chelsea FC found it a little harder in the 3-0 (1-0) win over Wolverhampton Wanderers. National player Kai Havertz (45.3) redeemed the Blues after a tough start with his goal to make it 1-0. Ex-Dortmunder Christian Pulisic (54th) and Armando Broja (90th) provided the other goals from Chelsea.
