Erling Haaland Prints Another Record In Premier League, Opta: Monster!

Manchester City player, Erling Haaland. (Photo: Twitter @ManCity)

JAKARTA - Manchester City appeared superior at home to Manchester United. They won with a score of 6-3.

Erling Haaland and Phil Foden starred. Both scored a hat-trick to lead their team to victory.

Haaland's three goals were created in the 34th, 37th, and 64th minutes. While Foden scored it in the 8th, 44th, and 73rd minutes.

The three goals scored by Haaland made him make history again. He became the first player to score three hat-tricks in consecutive home games in the Premier League competition.

Previously, he scored three goals when Man City hosted Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest.

"Erling Haaland is the first player in Premier League history to score a hat-trick in three home games in a row in a competition. Monster," Opta said.

These three goals also included him in the ranks of City players who scored three goals in Manchester derby matches. There are three names who also did it, one of whom is Foden.

In addition, this achievement makes Haaland now match the achievements of Cristiano Ronaldo in terms of the number of hat-tricks in the Premier League, according to Livescore.

However, Haaland is superior. If Ronaldo needed 232 matches to score three hatricks, while Haaland only needed eight matches.

Meanwhile, this additional three goals made the former Borussia Dortmund player record 17 goals in 10 games with The Citizens at the start of the season.

Achievement that will not disappoint City has come out a lot of money to buy it. The 21-year-old was brought in with £85.5 million or around Rp. 1.5 trillion.

The funds are for transfer fees, agent fees, signing bonuses and other expenses.