The Norwegian now has more goals than matches in the Premier League this season.
It was calm before the storm for almost an entire half when Erling Braut Haaland and Manchester City traveled to London on Sunday.
Jærbuen had 15 goals in the Premier League this season, before the match against Crystal Palace. Until 41 minutes had been played, Haaland was not close to the ball.
On his first touch of the ball, he headed City into the lead after a cross from Matheus Nunes.
– Blank “roll six” scoring, commented Lars Tjærnås at Viaplay.
In the second half, the super striker had the opportunity to score his second of the match. Savinho ran alone from his own half.
Alone with Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson, the Brazilian was fouled and penalized for City.
Haaland is thus up to 17 goals in 16 games. That gives an average of over one goal per game in the Premier League.
For the club and national team, “Brauten” has played 27 games this year – which has led to 35 goals and a total of 42 goal points.
– It is completely beyond the goal average he has. It’s total madness, comments Tjærnås after Haaland’s second goal.
Haaland’s 17 nets in the Premier League this season is the most of all. Brentford’s Igor Thiago is second with eleven goals followed by Hugo Ekitike with seven.
After scoring at Selhurst Park, Phil Foden also has seven goals this season in the Premier League.
– They made it difficult for us. The first half we had to spend time figuring them out. In the end we managed to decide the match, he says to Sky Sports.
Haaland’s penalty on the eve of the match determined the final result, which was 3–0 to Manchester City.
– It is impressive to come here and win 3-0. The difference between the teams tonight for me is that City have Haaland and Foden, says Brede Hangeland on Viplay’s inside track broadcast after the match.
After the match, Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola was both happy and relieved for the result he and the team are taking back to North West England.
– A very tough place to come. They attack very well, but we were patient. I’m very happy that we won and for our mentality, sums up Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola to Sky Sports after the victory was sealed.
Crystal Palace were the better team in the first half, but couldn’t find the back of the net behind Gianluigi Donnarumma.
– It is an extremely difficult track to get to, says Tjernås after the match.
The Italian stood in the way on several occasions when both Ismaïla Sarr and Mateta tried their luck.
Home made had almost one in expected goals against City, who stood with 0.2 going into the break. The visitors had most of the ball, but rarely got it forward thanks to Palace’s defence.
Oliver Glasner’s team had a winning streak of six straight games before Sunday’s meeting with the light blues from Manchester.
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