Pep Guardiola racked up his 250th Premier League win with a 1-0 defeat of Brentford on the Gtech Neighborhood Stadium.
Erling Haaland’s ninth-minute effort was the one purpose of the sport in west London.
It means our boss reaches the numerous milestone in simply 349 outings – 55 video games faster than earlier finest Alex Ferguson.
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The Blues now jet off for the most recent worldwide break having gained 5 instances and drawn twice in all competitions because the earlier window.
The sport in 250 phrases
Haaland broke the impasse for a brilliant, energetic Metropolis inside 10 minutes, rolling Sepp van den Berg and hammering the ball beneath Caoimhin Kelleher for his twelfth of the season.
Simply as on Wednesday in Monaco, it was once more Josko Gvardiol’s dinked ball that teed up the No.9.
The Norwegian sprinted to the Metropolis trustworthy within the nook, who spent the remainder of the afternoon chanting about his love of the membership and long-term contract.
Our good begin suffered a blow within the twentieth minute when Rodri sat down on the turf and was ultimately changed by Nico.
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After such a prolonged outing injured final season, our No.16 will likely be praying this was extra precautionary than a big blow.
The most important shock at half-time was that we weren’t additional forward, with Oscar Bobb twice shedding to Phil Foden in harmful areas whereas Tijjani Reijnders noticed a volley denied by Kelleher’s speedy reactions.
Metropolis’s first-half dominance was such that it marked the primary 45 minutes since Brentford’s 2021 promotion that they hadn’t had a contact within the opposition field.
That got here simply two minutes after the break, however Gianluigi Donnarumma was fast off his line to smother the advancing Igor Thiago.
It wasn’t an entire aberration, with Brentford proving far more of a risk within the second interval.
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We held our personal although by a mix of composure in possession and dogged defending when required incomes a 3rd clear sheet of the Premier League marketing campaign.
Groups
CITY XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias (C), Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Rodri (Nico 21), Reijnders (Bernardo 76), Bobb (Doku 76), Foden, Savinho, Haaland
Subs: Trafford, Stones, Ake, Kovacic, Cherki, Lewis
BRENTFORD XI: Kelleher, Kayode, van den Berg, Collins (C), Ajer, Hickey, Henderson (Janelt 73), Yarmoliuk (Onyeka 73), Damsgaard (Jensen 68), Schade, Thiago (Ouattara 68)
Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Carvalho, Lewis-Potter
Pep’s newest document – The boss has smashed one more long-standing Premier League document.
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This win is his 250th within the Premier League in simply 349 video games, a whopping 55 quicker than earlier holder Alex Ferguson who took 404 to hit the milestone within the Premier League period.
With a win share of 71.6%, he is far forward of next-best Ferguson on 65.2%.
Stats like these show the dominance and consistency we have seen from Metropolis in virtually 10 years beneath Guardiola.
Inevitable – Erling Haaland is unstoppable.
Metropolis began effectively and will have already been up when Haaland netted within the tenth minute, but it surely made excellent sense that the No.9 could be the person to attain.
He now has 12 objectives in 9 appearances throughout all competitions this season and, virtually impossibly, seems to be even higher than ever earlier than.
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This additionally meant he has scored at 21 of the 22 away Premier League grounds he has performed at, with Anfield the final for him to verify off.
His celebration with the Metropolis crowd and the next chants present simply how a lot love there may be between our ruthless striker and our loyal help.
#ACityUnited – Tragic occasions on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in north Manchester earlier within the week noticed each Metropolis and Manchester United put rivalry apart to point out help to our group.
We wore black armbands on this match, as did United of their Saturday recreation with Sunderland, stating ‘#ACityUnited’ and noticed a minute’s silence previous to kick-off.
Erling Haaland – Once more, who else?
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The Norwegian has began the brand new season in actually glowing type.
His objectives seize the headlines in fact, however he’s a No.9 that brings a lot greater than that.
Whether or not it’s his off-the-ball runs to create space for others, his relentless urgent or his ever-expanding management function, Haaland is central to all the things Pep’s aspect do.
That he can roll defenders and switch half-chances into objectives like he did for his opener solely additional marks him out as a singular expertise.
Pep’s response
“Good, they’d one probability within the first half, one duel that we misplaced. However a part of that, extra corners, extra throw-ins, extra actions and that is at all times there within the Premier League.
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“We performed an impressive first half that’s near our greatest in lots of, many issues. The issue is when you do not rating objectives and the possibilities we had Kelleher made some good saves.
“It is harder within the Premier league within the second half we’re 1-0 and this occurred.
“Generally actually happy with this month because the [Manchester] United recreation grew up so much in lots of, many issues and hopefully come again wholesome the gamers from the nationwide staff.”
“I feel there may be at all times area even when individuals are low. You simply want proper timing.
“I like when folks come like this towards us as effectively. Low block will not be straightforward with three massive centre backs and two folks in entrance of them, 5 folks round us always.
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“That’s why it’s not straightforward and that’s why it feels even higher.
“I’ve by no means felt higher than I do now.
“I feel it’s about preparation initially, preparing for the video games. You could be bodily prepared however you must be mentally prepared as effectively.”
What it means
Metropolis have 13 factors from our first seven Premier League fixtures.
That leaves us fifth within the embryonic desk, three factors again from leaders Arsenal.
What’s subsequent
The second worldwide break of the season is now upon us.
Metropolis return on Saturday 18 October with the go to of Everton. That’s a 15:00 (UK) begin and due to this fact won’t be broadcast within the UK.