Hat-trick Hero Marmoush Can Ease Burden
on Haaland

Manchester, 16 Feb (ONA) — There
is not much Erling Haaland has failed to do when it comes to scoring goals
since he joined Manchester City.

Fifty-two overall in his first
season, including 36 in the English Premier League (EPL), the most anyone has
scored in a single campaign.

Thirty-eight in his second, despite
being injured for almost two months, and 27 so far this term.

That incredible haul has secured the
Norwegian two Golden Boots and an incredible 11 hat-tricks.

Yet none of those trebles came
quicker than the 13 minutes and 54 seconds Omar Marmoush took to get his first
City hat-trick in the 4-0 win over Newcastle.

After four games without scoring
since his £59m winter transfer window move from German side Eintracht
Frankfurt, it was an impressive and well-timed surge in form given City go to
Real Madrid for their crucial Champions League play-off second leg on Wednesday
with a one-goal deficit to overcome after a 3-2 loss at home, BBC sports
reported.

It was also the first time any City
player other than Haaland had scored three times in a game since Phil Foden did
it at Brentford just over a year ago.

One of the notable features of the
terrible mid-season run of one win in 13 games, which wrecked any chance City
had of extending their record run of four successive titles – and was mainly
responsible for them ending up having to face Real Madrid so early in the
Champions League – was the fact hardly anyone picked up the slack when
Haaland’s form dipped.

Josko Gvardiol, Phil Foden and
Bernardo Silva all scored two goals in that time. But other than Haaland, who
got four, no-one scored more.

— Ends/Khalid