Erling Haaland scored another hat trick, this time against Nottingham Forest, which made its comeback to the Premier League this season.
However, Pep Guardiola, the Manchester City coach warned that Haaland has to back his record breaking goal-scoring spree with title wins.
“Erling Haaland will not be content with breaking Premier League records if he doesn’t back them up with titles,” Guardiola says.
However, Guardiola says besides Haaland, Manchester City has other top strikers to count on in the event something happens to the current record breaker.
He also says Haaland is an incredible stricker.
“What he has done in Norway, Austria and Germany he tries to do here,” Guardiola said. “The first ball contact, he scores a goal. We knew it. Julian as well, we have incredible strikers.
“He always scores goals. He is stoppable when we don’t play good. We try to play in a decent way for the fact that we create opportunities for our talented players up front to score goals.
“I think what we want is win the titles. Knowing him a little bit, I don’t know if he’d be happy breaking records if we didn’t win titles. If we play good, he’ll have more chances. How good Stones played, Walker, Rodri and Bernardo. This is our target, to help the talented players – Julian, Kevin, Riyad – to show their quality.”
Record Breaking
Erling Haaland has now set a Premier League record for most goals in his first five games with another hat-trick on Wednesday.
After scoring three goals in 18 minutes to help City comeback against Crystal Palace in the second half last weekend, Haaland continued where he left off with another brutal hat-trick in 27 first-half minutes against Forest.
More Woes For Forest
Nottingham Forest manager Steve Cooper reacts after his team’s 6-0 loss to Manchester City.
His team faced a massive team with Manchester City playing at a very different level than other EPL clubs.
The 6-0 defeat could cost him his post as manager at Forest, given that the Bournemouth’s coach became the first one to get fired after his team’s 9-0 thrashing against Liverpool.
Meanwhile, Cooper was shocked that his team lacked commitment and will learn from this setback, adding that Forest did not go into the game thinking City was unbeatable.