Haaland increases his scoring figures with a ‘hat trick’ in the Cup against Burnley

Erling Haaland increased goalscoring figures also in the england cup and took his team, the Manchester Cityto a new win and their fifth consecutive semifinals in a competition that ended for the Burnley by Vincent Kompanya legendary former ‘citizen’ player remembered and recognized in the Eithad but beaten by his mentor Pep Guardiola.

There is no end to the voracity of the Norwegian attacker, who has closed his magnificent week with nine goals. To that of Crystal Palace last weekend in the Premier and the five achieved against Leipzig in the Champions League has added this triplet, the sixth of the course, in the fourth cup cups that served to sentence the clash before the intermission that later ended in a win with the contribution of the Argentine Julián Álvarez, who made two, and the young Cole Palmer.

42 goals

Accumulate 42 goals among all competitions Haaland, who brought the first two balls he touched in the match into the net and who shattered the illusions of Burnley, leader of the Championship by a great difference, looks like a Premier soon and who faced the clash with eighteen games without losing between all competitions. The Norwegian did another one after. A hat trick in an hour on the pitch.

Erling Haaland is now just THREE goals away from equaling the record for the most goals for a #PL club across all competitions in a single season (Premier League era). 🤯🤖pic.twitter.com/N0N2PuUcvR

—City Xtra (@City_Xtra) March 18, 2023

Kompany’s return to the Etihad gave a friendly air to the preamble. 360 games with the sky blue, 62 with Guardiola as coach are figures to take into account. This is how the Manchester public also saw it before the man who was its captain.

But he had no choice against Guardiola’s team, which achieved a new record. He made City the third team to reach five successive FA Cup semi-finals alongside Manchester City from 1962-1966 and Arsenal from 2001-04. It is the sixth time in seven seasons that the Manchester side have survived and settled among the top four in the tournament.

Insatiable Haaland and voracious City, who in two games has scored thirteen goals. Seven against Leipzig, six against Burnley, who lasted only half an hour, with a daring staging but which gradually faded.

It was in 32 when Haaland entered the scene. He opened the scoring in an action that started with a kick from the goalkeeper, Stefan Ortega directly to the Norwegian who made the wall with Julián Álvarez. The striker put his toe in before the goal came out and brought the ball into the net.

fierce entrance

Four later the second arrived. In a run on the left by Phil Foden that ended with a cross into the area where the Norwegian arrived, faithful to the appointment. He did not fail.

Burnley stopped the gale. He reached the intermission with only two goals against. Although everything changed later. Already Riyad Mahrez was able to make the third although goalkeeper Bailey Peacock Farrell intervened with a great save. But then, in 59, came the third. Of the City and of Haaland. Foden shot and the ball hit the post. He fell at the feet of the Norwegian who did not forgive.

The Spanish coach Pep Guardiola considered the goal fulfilled. He dosed forces, made changes. Haaland disappeared from the field but the city machinery did not stop. In minute 62 the fourth came, by Julián Álvarez, to an empty goal, after a good action by Kevin De Bruyne and six later the fifth, signed by the young Cole Palmer, who replaced Haaland, who pushed the ball into the net after from a center to the Foden area, another of the highlights.

The sixth was scored, again, by Álvarez, who crossed half the field after receiving De Bruyne’s ball, faced the goalkeeper and resolved to lengthen the avalanche and seal City’s qualification to the Wembley semifinals.

Data sheet:

6-Manchester City: Stefan Ortega; Kyle Walker, Rubén Días (Manuel Akanji, m.63), Aymeric Laporte, Rico Lewis (Kalvin Phillips, m.66); Riyad Mahrez, Rodri (Sergio Gomez, m.66), Kevin De Bruyne (Jack Grealish, m.89); Phil Foden, Julián Álvarez and Erling Haaland (Cole Palmer, m.63).

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0-Burnley: Farrell Bailey Peacock; Connor Roberts, Ameen Al Dakhil, Louis Beyer, Ian Maatsen (Charlie Taylor, m.77); Johann Gudmundsson (Jack Cork, d.46), Josh Cullen; Vitinho (Samuel Bastien, m.77), Nathan Tella (Michael Obafemi, m.64), Anass Zaroury; and Lyle Foster (Ashley Barnes, m.46).

Goals: 1-0, m.32: Erling Haaland. 2-0, m.36: Erling Haaland; 3-0, m.59: Erling Haaland; 4-0, m.62: Julián Álvarez; 5-0, m.68: Cole Palmer; 6-0, m.73: Julián Álvarez.