Erling Haaland continued his pink sizzling kind as he grew to become the primary participant in Premier League historical past to attain a hat-trick in three consecutive house video games when he helped Manchester City rout Manchester United 6-3 on Sunday.
He additionally grew to become the primary Man City participant to attain a Premier League hat-trick towards United whereas Phil Foden grew to become simply the second along with his personal hattrick in the identical match. With Haaland’s 3 objectives on Sunday, he ties Cristiano Ronaldo, who was on the bench for United, with 3 Premier League hattricks.
He additionally destroyed one other Premier League file by turning into the quickest participant in England’s top-flight to attain three hat-tricks in solely eight matches. The earlier file holder was Michael Owen, who wanted 48 video games to succeed in the milestone for Liverpool.
Haaland headed his first within the thirty fourth minute to place City in command after which added his second simply 3 minutes later. He rounded off his hattrick within the sixty fourth minute for his seventeenth objective of the season.
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Ten Hag turns into the sixth United supervisor since Alex Ferguson’s retirement to lose his first derby – however had a heavier defeat than both David Moyes or Ralf Rangnick, who each misplaced by margins of 4-1.
The Dutchman got here into the sport having been named supervisor of the month within the Premier League however any celebrations had been short-lived after a traumatic afternoon for United within the highest-ever scoring assembly between these groups.
It was a case of injury limitation on the halftime interval after City raced to a 4-0 lead in an completely dominant show.
(With AP inputs)
