Pep Guardiola hails Erling Haaland's 'contagious mentality' after hat-trick against Nottingham Forest

Pep Guardiola hailed Erling Haaland's «contagious mentality» after he netted a second successive hat-trick for Manchester City. Summer signing Haaland scored three times in the first half as City eased to a 6-0 win over Nottingham Forest. Ad The Norway international now has nine goals in his first five Premier League games.

Premier LeagueThe Big Six (maybe) break a record, and Stevie’s in trouble – The Warm-Up29/08/2022 AT 07:55 “What he has done in Germany, he has done here," said City manager Guardiola. «First ball contact, first goal. We have incredible strikers, incredible sense of smell for goals.

»Of course Haaland is stoppable if we don't play good. The reason we always try to play well is to give our attacking players a chance to score goals. Haaland nets treble as City hit six past Forest Carvalho scores last-gasp winner for Liverpool «What Haaland wants is to win titles.

Knowing him, he would not be happy to break records if we don't win titles.» Haaland's tally of nine goals in his first five games is one more than club legend Sergio Aguero, who also holds the record for most Premier League hat-tricks (12). «Sergio is the legend,» said Guardiola. «Nobody can break the position in the hearts of City fans, scoring the most important goal in the modern history.

Erling has the quality to be there. »What Sergio has done is amazing. But Erling has this talent.

When City bought Erling, everybody talked about what he has done in the past. What we wanted to do is help him. Hopefully he can enjoy and score more goals." Another summer addition, Julian Alvarez, netted twice in the win, while Joao Cancelo scored from outside the box.