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Another game, another hat trick for Erling Haaland as he takes no time to adjust to the Premier League with Manchester City. Nottingham Forest didn’t know what hit them as within 38 minutes Haaland had all of his goals in a 6-0 route of The Tricky Trees. Haaland now has a hat trick in back-to-back games after doing the same against Crystal Palace over the weekend. While Forest wouldn’t have expected to get much from this game, it has to be demoralizing for new signings like Renan Lodi and Remo Freuler for this to be their first experience with the team, getting a rude welcome to the English top flight.
But it wasn’t a solo performance for Haaland as fellow new signing Julian Alvarez also bagged a brace on the day, but the Norwegian marksman only needed 16 touches to secure his hat trick.
In five Premier League games, Haaland already has nine goals as he looks like the runaway favorite for the golden boot this season. His nine goals set a new Premier League record through a player’s first five games, breaking the mark of Sergio Aguero and Mick Quinn of eight, according to Opta.
Last season Pep Guardiola sought a striker to put fear into the heart of defenses and it seems like he may have actually gotten two in Haaland and Alvarez, the latter joining from River Plate in his native Argentina. With every touch, Haaland, who joined over the summer from Dortmund, looks to fire the ball into the back of the net with as much force as possible and defenses don’t know what to do.
Here’s his fine second goal from Wednesday:
As selfless as he is selfish, Haaland doesn’t try to take shots that are outside his means, knowing that the team around him is good enough to get the ball back to him in excellent spaces to score. Surrounded by so much talent, the trust factor is important as a new signing, and after the team didn’t know how to best get the ball to him in the Community Shield loss to cbssports
