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The 2023/24 Premier League season starts with two familiar faces starting a new rivalry as newcomers Burnley host champions Manchester City.
Turf Moor will kick off the 2023/24 Premier League season and offer Burnley a chance to make a stellar start to the season when they face Manchester City, the treble winners. And Vincent Kompany could make a statement of intent right from the start.
Manchester City have won their last 11 matches against Burnley in all competitions.
Manchester City have been winning at both half-time and full-time in their last eight matches against Burnley in all competitions.
Manchester City have kept a clean sheet in their last seven matches against Burnley in all competitions.
Burnley have yet to score against Manchester City since December 2019.
Burnley have conceded a whopping 40 goals in their last 11 games against Manchester City.
Our first Premier League team news of 2023/24
XI | Ederson, Walker, Akanji, Ake, Lewis, Rodrigo, De Bruyne (C), Bernardo, Foden, Alvarez, Haaland
SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Phillips, Kovacic, Grealish, Laporte, Gomez, Gvardiol, Palmer, McAtee
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Erling Haaland scored twice in Manchester City’s opening Premier League game last season.
He’s now scored twice in their opening Premier League game this season.
It’s taken him just 36 minutes.
UNREAL.
Erling Haaland has now scored a brace in GW1 in his last four seasons:
◉ 20/21: vs. Gladbach
◉ 21/22: vs. Frankfurt
◉ 22/23: vs. West Ham
◉ 23/24: vs. Burnley
Starting as he means to go on…
99 - Erling Haaland has now scored 99 goals in Europe’s top-five leagues, while he has scored at least one goal against 35 of the 40 teams he has faced with Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City in league football. Unstoppable.
Erling Haaland has now faced 20 clubs in the Premier League, here’s who he hasn’t scored against:
◎ Brentford
◎ Chelsea
◎ Liverpool
A small list.
In his debut season for Man City, Erling Haaland achieved what no other Premier League player has done in a single-season campaign.
Now 2
2 - Erling Haaland is only the second player to score 2+ goals in a team’s opening game of a Premier League season in consecutive seasons (also two vs West Ham in 2022-23), along with Didier Drogba in 2009-10 (two vs Hull) and 2010-11 (three vs West Brom) for Chelsea. Blocks.
It’s the third consecutive Premier League match where Man City have scored in the fifth minute or earlier at Turf Moor
No player had ever scored the first AND second goals of a Premier League season.
Then Erling Haaland happened