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Man City have now scored in each of their last 36 Premier League home games.
Phil Foden continues the streak.
Kyle Walker has now provided more Premier League assists this season (1) than he managed during the entire 2022/23 campaign.
Erling Haaland has now scored 8 goals in 6 Premier League games.
He’s really making it a Farmers League isn’t he?
Erling Haaland has now scored 44 Premier League goals since the start of last season…
The entire Nottingham Forest team have scored 45 combined.
Erling Haaland has now been directly involved in 9 goals in his last 6 matches in all competitions:
Goals: 7
Assists: 2
No one can stop the
46 - There were 46 passes in the build up to Phil Foden’s opener against Nottingham Forest, the second longest passing sequence leading to a Premier League goal on record (since 2006-07), after Nacer Chadli’s strike for Spurs v QPR in August 2014 (48 passes). Art.
HT: Man City 2-0 Nottingham Forest
Pep Guardiola’s side had 76.8% possession in the first half. However, Erling Haaland had the fewest touches (7) of all 22 players that started the game.
He scored (of course).
Goals in the Premier League since the start of last season:
Erling Haaland: 44
Chelsea: 43
Bournemouth: 42
Everton: 36
Wolves: 36
45:27 - Rodri’s sending off (45:27) was the fastest red card shown from the start of a second half on record in the Premier League (since 2006-07). Costly?
Rodri will miss Manchester City’s trip to the Emirates on October 8 after being shown a straight red against Forest
Only six sides have won the opening six games of a Premier League season:
◎ 9 - Chelsea (05/06)
◎ 8 - Liverpool (19/20)
◎ 6 - Newcastle (94/95)
◎ 6 - Chelsea (09/10)
◉ 6 - Man City (16/17)
◉ 6 - Man City (23/24)
Pep Guardiola is the first manager to do it twice.
FT: Brentford 1-3 Everton
James Tarkowski, the former Brentford player, scored and assisted in a Premier League game for the first time in his career to give Everton their first win of the season.
Football, eh?