Match ends, Manchester Metropolis 5, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
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Man City 5-1 Wolves: Erling Haaland scores four as City move a point behind Arsenal
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Erling Haaland’s first four-goal haul within the Premier League left Manchester Metropolis three wins away from a historic fourth successive English league title.
Metropolis got a serving to hand they didn’t want due to a beneficial Twelfth-minute penalty determination from referee Craig Pawson.
Haaland despatched Wolves keeper Jose Sa the improper method, then beat the Portuguese from the spot once more simply earlier than the break after he had been introduced down by Nelson Semedo.
In between, the striker had scored with an outstanding far-post header, climbing to an incredible top unchallenged on the far submit, to ship Rodri’s cross again throughout objective and into the nook.
A minute after Hwang Hee-chan had pulled one again for the guests, Haaland struck once more, powering on to Phil Foden’s sensible lofted cross.
It took the Norwegian to 25 Premier League targets for the season and 5 away from Alexander Isak and Cole Palmer within the Golden Boot standings.
Julian Alvarez completed off the scoring 5 minutes from time to depart Metropolis a degree behind Arsenal, however now with three video games remaining to the Gunners’ two.
Free-scoring Haaland
Scrolling again by means of Haaland’s unbelievable scoring feats since his arrival at Manchester Metropolis, it was nearly a shock to study he has by no means scored 4 in a Premier League recreation till this one.
He has scored 5 twice, at Luton within the FA Cup in February and towards RB Leipzig within the Champions League in March final 12 months.
Haaland now has 9 hat-tricks. His total tally for the season is 36.
Extremely, he’s now 87th within the all-time Premier League scoring charts with 61, another than Metropolis legend David Silva, who watched this recreation from the stands, has a statue outdoors the stadium and was given a standing ovation in recognition of his trophy-ladened 12 years of service to the membership.
It will possibly solely be imagined what figures Haaland will attain if he stays at Metropolis for that size of time.
For Arsenal, there was a predictability about Haaland’s efforts and the general end result, that may solely make them surprise simply the place their rivals will drop factors.
On paper, Metropolis’s go to to Tottenham on 14 Could is hard. However, as Arsenal themselves proved final week, Ange Postecoglou’s facet are in poor kind and on this proof could be onerous pressed to cease Haaland in his tracks.
‘It isn’t soccer any extra’
Wolves boss Gary O’Neil watched this recreation from the administrators’ field after being given a touchline ban for his verbal volley on the officers after his facet have been controversially denied an injury-time equaliser towards West Ham final month.
It was the most recent in a string of selections O’Neil feels have gone towards his facet this season, beginning within the opening spherical of fixtures after they have been denied a late penalty at Outdated Trafford.
Metropolis’s opening objective was one other that could possibly be filed within the ‘unfortunate’ tray.
Watching the replays of Josko Gvardiol’s collision with Rayan Ait-Nouri because the Croatia defender fired over, the momentum appeared to be with the Metropolis man going into his opponent. It may be argued it was a bodily confrontation and neither man needs to be penalised. Pawson opted to concentrate on the very fact Ait-Nouri had not touched the ball. Beneath these circumstances, it was not a ruling more likely to be overturned by VAR.
Nonetheless, it was Stuart Attwell, who got here underneath a lot scrutiny from Nottingham Forest for lacking what they mentioned have been three penalty selections at Everton not too long ago, who stepped in to make sure Semedo bringing down Haaland for Metropolis’s second penalty was penalised after Pawson had failed to identify it in actual time.
Nonetheless, the look ahead to the choice was a prolonged one, throughout which era the Wolves followers chanted ‘it is not soccer any extra’.
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Participant of the match
HaalandErling Haaland
Wolverhampton Wanderers
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Squad quantity1Participant titleJosé Sá
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Squad quantity11Participant titleHwang Hee-chan
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Squad quantity12Participant titleMatheus Cunha
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Squad quantity8Participant titleJoão Gomes
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Squad quantity3Participant titleAït-Nouri
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Squad quantity27Participant titleBellegarde
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Squad quantity23Participant titleKilman
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Squad quantity6Participant titleTraoré
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Squad quantity17Participant titleBueno
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Squad quantity5Participant titleLemina
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Squad quantity24Participant titleToti Gomes
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Squad quantity22Participant titleNélson Semedo
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Squad quantity4Participant titleBueno
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Squad quantity62Participant titleChirewa
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Squad quantity21Participant titleSarabia
Line-ups
Man Metropolis
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 31Ederson
- 2Walker
- 25Akanji
- 6AkéSubstituted forStonesat 69′minutes
- 24Gvardiol
- 16Rodri
- 8Kovacic
- 20Bernardo SilvaSubstituted forDokuat 80′minutes
- 17De BruyneSubstituted forNunesat 79′minutes
- 47FodenSubstituted forGrealishat 80′minutes
- 9HaalandSubstituted forÁlvarezat 82′minutes
Substitutes
- 3Rúben Dias
- 5Stones
- 10Grealish
- 11Doku
- 18Ortega
- 19Álvarez
- 21Gómez
- 27Nunes
- 82Lewis
Wolves
Formation 3-5-2
- 1Sá
- 22Nélson SemedoBooked at 45mins
- 23Kilman
- 24Gomes
- 3Aït-Nouri
- 8João GomesBooked at 66mins
- 5LeminaBooked at 41minsSubstituted forBellegardeat 45′minutes
- 6TraoréBooked at 64mins
- 17BuenoSubstituted forBuenoat 71′minutes
- 11Hwang Hee-chanSubstituted forChirewaat 87′minutes
- 12Matheus CunhaSubstituted forSarabiaat 76′minutes
Substitutes
- 2Doherty
- 4Bueno
- 21Sarabia
- 25Bentley
- 27Bellegarde
- 30González
- 61Okoduwa
- 62Chirewa
- 63Fraser
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Second Half ends, Manchester Metropolis 5, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
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Try missed. Manuel Akanji (Manchester Metropolis) left footed shot from the proper facet of the six yard field is shut, however misses to the proper. Assisted by Jérémy Doku.
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Nook, Manchester Metropolis. Conceded by Toti Gomes.
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Try saved. Jérémy Doku (Manchester Metropolis) proper footed shot from outdoors the field is saved within the centre of the objective.
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Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Tawanda Chirewa replaces Hwang Hee-Chan.
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Jack Grealish (Manchester Metropolis) wins a free kick within the defensive half.
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Foul by João Gomes (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
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Aim! Manchester Metropolis 5, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. Julián Álvarez (Manchester Metropolis) left footed shot from the centre of the field to the underside proper nook. Assisted by Rodri.
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Substitution, Manchester Metropolis. Julián Álvarez replaces Erling Haaland.
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Jack Grealish (Manchester Metropolis) wins a free kick within the defensive half.
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Foul by Santiago Bueno (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
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Substitution, Manchester Metropolis. Jérémy Doku replaces Bernardo Silva.
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Substitution, Manchester Metropolis. Jack Grealish replaces Phil Foden.
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Substitution, Manchester Metropolis. Matheus Nunes replaces Kevin De Bruyne.
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Try saved. Erling Haaland (Manchester Metropolis) header from the centre of the field is saved within the high proper nook. Assisted by Bernardo Silva with a cross.
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Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Pablo Sarabia replaces Matheus Cunha.
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Foul by Josko Gvardiol (Manchester Metropolis).
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João Gomes (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick within the defensive half.
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Try saved. Mateo Kovacic (Manchester Metropolis) proper footed shot from the centre of the field is saved within the backside left nook. Assisted by Rodri.
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