Manchester City bosses Pep Guardiola,Erling Haaland beat West Ham 2-0 with debut double I believe I silenced the skeptics after I took it down.
Haaland faced some criticism for his dominating performance in the Shield in the community defeat to Liverpool last weekend.
However, the £51million striker announced that he had arrived in the Premier League in style, scoring a goal every first half and finishing neatly after a penalty. Decided, Citi opened his account.
"A week ago he failed to adapt to the Premier League. Now he's alongside Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer and Cristiano Ronaldo," smiled Guardiola. .
"He's an incredible talent and goal-scorer. I've known him for a month. He was calm and really well trained. We'll see how he reacts when he's complimented."
Haaland was given the chance to go off the mark. I was already staring at the header when I got there.
Alphonse Areola came on as a substitute for his injured Lukasz Fabianski and scored for West Ham just minutes after defeating Norway.
Although he was the only player to receive a penalty, Haaland cleverly sent Areola the wrong direction with his kick, clipping the post en route.
When he took the ball to take his penalty, I said, 'Oh, I like it,'" added Guardiola. If I had, I would have punched my teammate in the face. And of course he got it.”
With 25 minutes remaining, Haaland raced Kevin De Bruyne's through ball past Areola to end the game.
The 22-year-old probably hoped to pull off his trick in his second debut in his hat, but he lost to Guardiola with 15 minutes remaining.
"I was lucky to be with Lionel Messi as a manager. If Messi scores 2 he scores 3, if Messi scores 3 he scores 4, 4. If I scored, he wanted five," Guardiola said.
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You will never be satisfied. They are always hungry, starving and always wanting more.
"But at the same time, we need to get the new players involved and make sure everyone gets the minutes." . Despite a rebuilding summer, they somehow managed to start the season with only one center half available.
"It was really difficult," said manager David Moyes, revealing defender Issa Diop could not play.
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"From our point of view, we were resilient, we hung in there, we stuck to it.
"But today's story is about Manchester City. played very well and I hope we can do better in the coming weeks and months."
