When Erling Braut Haaland plays football, he scores goals. The Norwegian colossus was handed his Manchester City debut against Bayern Munich and within 12 minutes, he’d bagged his first goal.
A clever ball across the penalty area from Jack Grealish was gobbled up by a sliding Haaland and that proved to be the only goal of the pre-season match.
Haaland played 41 minutes in total before being replaced by the exciting Julian Alvarez. After the game, Pep Guardiola said there’s much more to come from Haaland, as he’s still getting up to speed with City players and the team’s unique style of play. “He scored a goal which is important, these type of goals in front of keeper – always he’s there,” the Spaniard said. “The first minutes, he needs more rhythm and time but already he had 45 minutes which is good for him. “We’ll see how he reacts to the niggles that he had in the previous weeks. “After we come back we have long weeks to prepare every weekend game.
In those two or three weeks we will get the best form.” The initial signs with regards to Haaland in a City shirt certainly look good, though, and he already looks to be getting on very well with his teammates.