• Manchester City – Nottingham Forest 6-0 (3-0)

Erling Braut Haaland impressed everyone and continued to wreak havoc for his new club Manchester City. On Wednesday, Haaland scored his second hat-trick in less than a week as newly promoted Nottingham Forest were denied at the Etihad.

Haaland was so good in his first game in the Premier League that City writer for local newspaper Manchester Evening News, Simon Bajkowski, believes the Norwegian “threatened the reputation of the league”.

– The Premier League could only watch nervously as these young players made their reputation as the best and most competitive league in the world, writes Bajkowski in his book. Comments after the game.

He believes the entry of Haaland to City has even lifted the atmosphere at City’s cage, the Etihad from last season. One season Manchester City won the league and won 15 of 19 home games.

Bajkowski wrote that although it was a game against a newly promoted team in the middle of the week, it was the best atmosphere so far this season.

– You can’t deny how excited everyone in the four stands was every time he got close to the ball. The fans were as excited as the terrified opponents, Bajkowski wrote.

– Robot level

And that’s probably not all that weird. Because Haaland is very effective and when the Norwegian is near the ball, it often becomes dangerous.

On Wednesday night, he used his first touch of the game to give City the lead. In the second half of the draw against Bournemouth, Haaland went off the pitch goalless with just eight touches. However, one of them was the goalscoring pass to Ilkay Gündogan.

And to score his first nine Premier League goals, Haaland needed just 101 touches of the ball, according to ESPN.

– There is a robotic level to that efficiency, writes renowned British football journalist Duncan Alexander Twitter.

Sending alerts

And with numbers like that, the Premier League record is threatened.

One of the most impressed with Haaland is Liverpool legend striker Michael Owen. He knows a thing or two about scoring goals, and just sends goal alerts all over the league.

– I repeat. This boy will break almost any possible scoring record. He’s too big and too fast, clinical in front of goal and playing for a team that creates dozens of chances. All he has to do is stay injury-free, Owen wrote on Twitter.

The former star striker simply couldn’t believe that Haaland would break the most incredible of records. Gary Lineker believes City striker to take Alan Shearer’s record of 260 goals if he continues at this pace.

TV 2 commentator yvind Alsaker hinted at the same on Wednesday night.

– What can you say? Really big! Towards a Premier League record for number of goals. Almost all engagement is a goal or goal, Alsaker wrote to Dagbladet.