Paul Scholes and Michael Owen disagree on element of Erling Haaland's Man City debut

Erling Haaland may have got his Manchester City career off to the perfect start on Sunday, but Premier League legends Michael Owen and Paul Scholes disagreed over one thing.

Haaland scored goals either side of half-time to earn City an opening day 2-0 win at West Ham — a man of the match performance in which he sent a warning to defenders around the league; give him a sniff of goal and chances are he'll score.

Speaking on the Premier League Matchday Live show, former Manchester United midfielder Scholes was hugely impressed by the 22-year-old, and even made a comparison to another top goal-scorer.

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"He's such a young player, so confident. He reminds me so much of Ruud van Nistelrooy, such a ruthless finisher," Scholes said.

"When he gets through, you feel he's going to score and you feel he's not going to give the goalkeeper a chance. Even looking at his penalty, he was so certain about it, just a step up and bang into that bottom corner.

"It was a great debut, I thought it might take a bit of time but I was slightly wrong again, but this lad's got real quality, his goal-scoring, his movement. Imagine playing behind him!"

Owen was similarly impressed, but he believes the Norway international will have to start scoring different types of goals if he is to really hit the high notes in sky blue.

"Haaland's stereotypical goal for me, well there's two types. There's one, over the top, powerful, runner, finisher, one-on-one. The other one is he's massive, he's a big guy. Crosses into the box, headers, that's his bread and butter over the years," Owen said.

"Apart from Liverpool, there's not going to be any teams that play a