Leeds United 1-3 Manchester City highlights: Whites defeated by Haaland double
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The Whites are longer odds to win tonight’s game than Erling Haaland is to score a hat-trick, according to most bookmakers, as the Norwegian returns to the city of his birth. Kalvin Phillips is not expected to be involved, however, meaning Haaland will exclusively represent the visitors’ Leeds-born contingent.
United are 15th in the Premier League table, while Manchester City slipped to third over the weekend as high-flying Newcastle picked up where they left off before the World Cup with a resounding victory at Leicester.
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Hide AdPhillips’ absence from Pep Guardiola’s squad this evening is understood to be related to a weight issue, rather than injury which has limited him to just one Premier League appearance since his £42 million summer transfer.
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Leeds United 1-3 Manchester City highlights: Whites defeated by Haaland double
Noisy in here
10' City in possession are effectively 3-2-5 which is outnumbering Leeds' back four. Grealish out wide stretching the defensive structure. Meanwhile, Aaronson being left to run the gauntlet on his own. Elland Road well up for this, mind.
Could have been so different
40 seconds and Haaland has had his first shot on target. Meslier with the stop.
Star pupil
Jesse MarschHe has had a real attitude shift. He has seen that the things that we’ve been hard on him with means something and the attention to detail on the pitch and the tactical intelligence of what is necessary to be successful and the behaviours, that they all add up to being very beneficial for him and the team. We had one video session and I asked a couple of questions and he answered first and he answered correctly right away both times. I chuckled with the team and said ‘look who’s our star pupil now’