Man City vs Brentford: Rampant Erling Haaland breaks Rooney's record to lead Guardiola's side to victory

Man City vs Brentford: Rampant Erling Haaland breaks Rooney's record to lead Guardiola's side to victory

Faruq Ibrahim 16:57 - 14.09.2024

Haaland continued his charge towards a third-consecutive Golden Boot after scoring a brace against Brentford to help Manchester City maintain their 100% record in the Premier League.

Erling Haaland continued his incredible goalscoring rate, as he scored a brace to help Manchester City achieve a comeback victory against Brentford. 

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The 24-year-old has consecutive hat-tricks before the international break. Upon resumption from the break, he scored a brace after Joan Wissa gave the Bees an early lead to help Pep Guardiola's side win 2-1 and maintain their 100% record.

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The Bees started like a house on fire and raced into an early lead thanks to a Joan Wissa strike in the first minute. Thomas Frank's tactics were seemingly working to perfection, as Brentford had a sustained spell in which they carved Manchester City at will; they could have gone 3-0 up but for an inspired Ederson. 

With the Etihad crowd on their back, Manchester City soon found their footing, and in the 19th minute, the opener. Their Norwegian ace pounced a loose ball in the box and struck towards goal; thanks to a kind deflection, it went away from Mark Flekken and nestled at the back of the net. 

Buoyed by the opener, the league leaders pressed for another and found it around the hour mark. More characteristic of their opponent's style than theirs, the Cityzens scored directly from a goal kick. Ederson booted it upfield for Haaland, who held off his marker before calmly chipping over the Dutch shotstopper to give his side the lead. 

The scoreless second-half failed to live up to the goalscoring entertainment of the first that served up three goals, with Flekken performing tremendously to prevent City from inflicting further harm. 

Manchester City make it four wins in as many games, and thanks to the result in the Liverpool vs. Nottingham Forest ma

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