Man City: Pep Guardiola's brilliant reaction to Haaland scoring vs Copenhagen

Erling Haaland is playing football from another planet.

There were already suspicions that the goalscoring phenomena who thrived at Red Bull Salzburg and Borussia Dortmund would find the back of the net for fun with Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, but we didn’t know that it would be quite to this extent.

On back of scoring his third Premier League hat-trick of the season against Manchester United, Haaland must have been rubbing his hands together at the prospect of Copenhagen making the trip to the Etihad Stadium in mid-week.

The Danish giants came into the lead with just a single point and zero goals scored in the group stages, leading to Guardiola encouraging his side to tighten the screw with a remarkably high line.

The result was intense attacking pressure from the off and none other than Mr. Haaland scoring what felt like his ten-millionth goal of the season before there was even 10 minutes on the clock.

An incisive pass into the area from Joao Cancelo was all that Haaland needed to open his account, sweeping an emphatic finish Kamil Grabara on his supposedly weaker right foot.

However, true to the Norwegian poacher scoring a goal every 10 seconds at the moment, he wasn’t satisfied with just a single strike as he went chasing after another hat-trick.

In fact, the Citizens eventually went into the break 3-0 up with Haaland doubling his money by gobbling up a strike on the rebound, while an own goal rounded off the dramatic first 45 minutes.

But even better than Haaland’s second goal itself was the reaction that it brought out from Guardiola, who often cuts a reserved and earnest figure in his technical area.

Nevertheless, much in the way that Robert Lewandowski’s five goals in nine minutes saw the legendary manager