Haaland's brace drives Man City to a comfortable win over Leicester: Review of player performances

Erling Haaland has equalled the 38-game Premier League season scoring record by scoring two goals in Manchester City's 3-1 victory over Leicester on Saturday. The Norwegian striker now has 32 goals, just two away from the division's all-time scoring record, jointly held by Alan Shearer and Andy Cole. City took just five minutes to score, with John Stones hitting a half-volley from a corner to find the top corner of the goal. VAR spotted a handball by Wilfred Ndidi, which gifted Haaland a penalty to score his second goal. Haaland then scored his second goal of the day by dinking over Daniel Iversen following a perfect Kevin De Bruyne through-ball. Leicester managed to score a consolation goal through Kelechi Iheanacho after Harry Souttar's header was palmed into his path by Ederson.

Guardiola made two big changes during the interval, withdrawing both Stones and Haaland to keep them fresh, as Riyad Mahrez nearly injected some energy with an excellent curling effort from outside the box. Leicester had opportunities to score, but the difference in quality was apparent as they were never getting back into the game.

Below are the player ratings:

Manchester City:

• GK: Ederson - 5/10
• CB: John Stones - 7/10
• CB: Ruben Dias - 6/10
• CB: Aymeric Laporte - 7/10
• DM: Rodri - 8/10
• DM: Bernardo Silva - 7/10
• RM: Kyle Walker - 7/10
• CM: Kevin De Bruyne - 8/10
• CM: Riyad Mahrez - 6/10
• LM: Jack Grealish - 7/10
• ST: Erling Haaland - 8/10

Subs:

• Manuel Akanji (46' for Stones) - 6/10
• Julian Alvarez (46' for Haaland) - 6/10
• Kalvin Phillips (53' for Rodri) - 5/10
• Cole Palmer (61' for De Bruyne) - 6/10
• Sergio Gomez (74' for Grealish) - 6/10

Manager:

• Pep Guardiola - 7/10

Leicester:

• GK: Daniel Iversen - 5/10
• CB: Wout Faes - 4/10
• CB: Harry Souttar - 5/10
• CB: Caglar Soyuncu - 6/10
• RM: Timothy Castagne - 4/10
• CM: Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall - 4/10
• CM: Wilfred Ndidi - 3/10
• CM: Youri Tielemans - 5/10
• LM: Victor Kristiansen - 5/10

AM: James Maddison - 6/10 - Clearly Leicester's best player. Always looked likely to get involved in a goal and played the corner for Iheanacho.

ST: Jamie Vardy - 4/10 - Another who clearly tries hard, but Vardy's best days look to be behind him.

Luke Thomas (46' for Kristiansen) - 5/10

Kelechi Iheanacho (46' for Vardy) - 7/10

Nampalys Mendy (62' for Tielemans) - 5/10

Dennis Praet (62' for Dewsbury-Hall) - 5/10

Patson Daka (87' for Ndidi) - N/A

Dean Smith - 3/10 - Was never ever going to get anything out of this game but will be disappointed with the speed at which everything fell apart.

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