As the ball hit the net and Erling Haaland wheeled away yet again, Pep Guardiola simply laughed out loud. The stadium announcer declared: “Goal for City, who else?” Supporters were shaking their heads in disbelief.
That’s the thing about what Erling Haaland is doing. He manages to make even a routine night’s work for Manchester City like this interesting, and leave you wondering how you’re going to react.
The bad news for supporters of Southampton, City’s next opponents, is that Haaland was given the second half off here to freshen him for the games ahead.
By the time he had been withdrawn at half-time though, Guardiola’s side had already done more than enough to see off a helpless FC Copenhagen and take another step towards the Champions League knockout stages with time to spare.