Erling Haaland backed away from his marker, set himself alongside together with his once more to objective, and leapt extreme to ship an acrobatic scissor-kick into the underside nook.
Tap-ins, headers, majestic flying volleys. The Manchester City striker truly can do one thing.
Haaland took his tally of English Premier League targets in his first season with City to 30 with a double in a 4-1 victory at Southampton that saved the stress on Arsenal inside the title race on Saturday.
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His first objective, a close-range header, couldn’t have been easier. His second merely took the breath away.
After meeting Jack Grealish’s cross with that beautiful volley, Haaland sat on the underside and celebrated with a zen pose. Before prolonged, he was laughing on the brilliance of his private objective — his forty fourth in all competitions for City this season.
City would possibly nonetheless have 18 further matches to play if it goes all the way in which through which inside the FA Cup and Champions League. Fifty targets seems to be like inevitable for Haaland.
City, within the meantime, is on a sort of end-of-season worthwhile runs that has flip into its trademark. Make that eight straight victories in all competitions — the crew’s biggest streak of the season — to really put the stress on Arsenal, which takes a five-point lead into its match at Liverpool on Sunday.
Grealish and Julian Alvarez scored City’s completely different targets on the south coast.
