Manchester City vs Wolves LIVE: Premier League result and reaction after Erling Haaland scores four
Man City 5-1 Wolves: Haaland’s quadruple helped City hold serve in the title race in style
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Erling Haaland scored four goals - including a first-half hat-trick - as champions Manchester City crushed Wolves 5-1 to retain control of the Premier League title race.
Pep Guardiola’s side needed to respond to leaders Arsenal’s victory over Bournemouth earlier on Saturday and they did so emphatically, with a clinical take-down of their hapless visitors at the Etihad Stadium.
Haaland struck twice from the penalty spot in the first half, either side of a towering header, before adding a fourth with a stunning strike. Substitute Julian Alvarez also got on the scoresheet, while Wolves’ consolation came from Hwang Hee-chan.
The victory lifted City, chasing an unprecedented fourth successive league crown, back within a point of the Gunners with a game in hand. Haaland’s outstanding display took his tally for the campaign to 36 in all competitions and lifted him to 25 - five clear of his nearest challengers - in the race for the Premier League’s Golden Boot. His hat-trick was also his ninth in City colours.
Relive all the action below:
Manchester City 5-1 Wolves
90 mins: Nunes has a chance to extend the lead further as he tries to control Doku’s cross, but it runs to the ‘keeper. Should have hit it first time.
There’ll be four minutes of added time.
Manchester City 5-1 Wolves
88 mins: City want six as Doku skips past Ait-Nouri’s challenge, but his shot is weak and straight at Sa.
Manchester City 5-1 Wolves
87 mins: Wolves make a change, as Hwang Hee-Chan comes off for Tawanda Chirewa.
GOAL! Manchester City 5-1 Wolves
84 mins: GOAL! Job done, as if it wasn’t already.
Rodri intercepts it deep into the Wolves half after Toti’s sliding challenge. He lays it to his left to Julian Alvarez, who has all the time in the world to aim his shot and drag it into the far corner past Sa.
Manchester City 4-1 Wolves
83 mins: Haaland does come off in the end. He doesn’t look happy about something, but not sure what.
Job done for the Norwegian and City, as he comes off for Julian Alvarez, who makes his 100th appearance for the club.
Manchester City 4-1 Wolves
81 mins: Guardiola must really want Haaland to get that fifth goal. No other reason to leave him on at the moment!
Gomes tries to scoop a ball in to the overlapping Hwang, but it’s too close to Ederson.
Manchester City 4-1 Wolves
79 mins: Ait-Nouri fizzes an early cross across the box to Sarabia, but the Spaniard can’t connect with it at the far post.
Guardiola makes two more changes, with De Bruyne, Foden and Bernardo Silva coming off in place of Matheus Nunes, Jack Grealish and Jeremy Doku.
Manchester City 4-1 Wolves
77 mins: Haaland tries the ridiculous, Chicharito-esque backwards header from Silva’s cross, but it causes Sa no trouble.
Manchester City 4-1 Wolves
76 mins: For Wolves, Cunha comes off for Pablo Sarabia.
Manchester City 4-1 Wolves
75 mins: Wolves have really improved in the second half, but it was too little too late after Haaland’s first-half hat-trick.
The game is really slowing down now as City close out the result.
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