Erling Haaland backed away from his marker, set himself along with his again to aim, and leapt excessive to ship an acrobatic scissor-kick into the underside nook.
Faucet-ins, headers, majestic flying volleys. The Manchester Metropolis striker actually can do something.
Haaland took his tally of English Premier League objectives in his first season with Metropolis to 30 with a double in a 4-1 victory at Southampton that saved the stress on Arsenal within the title race on Saturday.
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His first aim, a close-range header, couldn’t have been simpler. His second merely took the breath away.
After assembly Jack Grealish’s cross with that gorgeous volley, Haaland sat on the bottom and celebrated with a zen pose. Earlier than lengthy, he was laughing on the brilliance of his personal aim — his forty fourth in all competitions for Metropolis this season.
Metropolis might nonetheless have 18 extra matches to play if it goes all the way in which within the FA Cup and Champions League. Fifty objectives seems to be inevitable for Haaland.
Metropolis, in the meantime, is on a type of end-of-season profitable runs that has grow to be its trademark. Make that eight straight victories in all competitions — the workforce’s greatest streak of the season — to actually put the stress on Arsenal, which takes a five-point lead into its match at Liverpool on Sunday.
Grealish and Julian Alvarez scored Metropolis’s different objectives on the south coast.