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Wolves never had a chance here. Any chances they might have had relied on Pedro Neto being fit and yet again he isn’t. He’s a liability but he’s also easily their best player. He was big in their win against city last year including forcing an own goal.
Paul
Man City 3-0 Wolves
Chris Waddle
Ex-Newcastle winger on BBC Radio 5 Live
Haaland will get all the headlines and rightly so, but it has been a brilliant team performance. Man City dominated 35 minutes of that. Wolves need a good talking to and to play for some pride.
HT: Man City 3-0 Wolves
Who remembers this match?
City can't get too comfortable. You never know when you're a title-chaser with a 3-0 lead...
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I never expected Wolves to shock Man City on their own field. I was more concerned that City might narrow the goal difference with Arsenal. Looks like my worries came true in the blink of an eye!
Kyle
Man City 3-0 Wolves
Chris Waddle
Ex-Newcastle winger on BBC Radio 5 Live
Gvardiola looked like he was doing the Charleston, he was unlucky there.
Man City 3-0 Wolves
That's the break. City in total control.
Image source, Getty ImagesMan City 3-0 Wolves
How is it not 4-0?!
The corner is floated into Rodri at the back post and he flicks a header across goal but Nathan Ake can't nod it in.
The ball eventually falls to Josko Gvardiol but he can't get his shot away before Jose Sa manages to pinch the ball off his feet.
Man City 3-0 Wolves
Manchester City have a very late corner. Wolves are praying for half-time.
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Not the worst first half for a League Two player.
Chris
Image source, Getty ImagesMan City 3-0 Wolves
Chris Waddle
Ex-Newcastle winger on BBC Radio 5 Live
Haaland does what he does, he is just a goal scorer, an out and out goal scorer. I think Pep Guardiola will be looking to freshen things up and make substitutions at half-time. Wolves aren't scoring four or five in this second half.
Man City 3-0 Wolves
Simon Stone
BBC Sport at the Etihad Stadium
The Wolves fans have had enough of VAR.
They have been on the wrong end of too many decisions to trust the system.
I actually thought that was more of a penalty than the first one which, as I said, was never going to be overturned, no matter what way the decision went.
The Wolves fans are making their feelings known.
Man City 3-0 Wolves
The arguments will rage on...
Meanwhile, I can tell you that Erling Haaland has netted his sixth career Premier League hat-trick, tied with Luis Suarez (also six).
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This is the most blatant penalty I've ever seen. What on earth was Craig Pawson thinking?! How many times do qualified refs have to look at replays?!
Matty
That is never a penalty. Why this farce of referees being sent to look at the screen? 100% of the time they do exactly as they are told. Total waste of time
Ross
Erling Haaland (45+3 mins)
Erling Haalaand has a first-half hat-trick!
He goes for the same side and this time Jose Sa guesses correctly, but the keeper can't quite get to the ball and it ripples against the back of the net.
City are cruising.
Image source, Getty ImagesMan City 2-0 Wolves
Haaland has the ball. He's on a hat-trick.
Man City 2-0 Wolves
Nelson Semedo is shown a yellow for his foul.
Man City 2-0 Wolves
It's given.
Man City 2-0 Wolves
Still we wait.
"Get on with it!" cries a home fan.
Man City 2-0 Wolves
Chris Waddle
Ex-Newcastle winger on BBC Radio 5 Live
Looking at it, Semedo plays Haaland's foot onto the ball. It's a penalty.
Man City 2-0 Wolves
Referee Craig Pawson is going over to the screen. We know what this means...
| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 26 | 5 | 5 | 88 | 28 | 60 | 83 |
| |
| 35 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 87 | 33 | 54 | 82 |
| |
| 35 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 77 | 36 | 41 | 75 |
| |
| 35 | 20 | 7 | 8 | 73 | 52 | 21 | 67 |
| |
| 34 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 67 | 54 | 13 | 60 |
| |
| 35 | 17 | 5 | 13 | 78 | 56 | 22 | 56 |
| |
| 34 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 52 | 51 | 1 | 54 |
| |
| 34 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 65 | 59 | 6 | 51 |
| |
| 35 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 56 | 65 | -9 | 49 |
| |
| 36 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 52 | 63 | -11 | 48 |
| |
| 36 | 13 | 7 | 16 | 49 | 60 | -11 | 46 |
| |
| 36 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 51 | 55 | -4 | 44 |
| |
| 34 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 52 | 57 | -5 | 44 |
| |
| 35 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 45 | 57 | -12 | 40 |
| |
| 36 | 12 | 9 | 15 | 38 | 49 | -11 | 37 |
| |
| 36 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 52 | 60 | -8 | 36 |
| |
| 36 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 45 | 63 | -18 | 29 |
| |
| 36 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 49 | 78 | -29 | 26 |
| |
| 36 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 39 | 74 | -35 | 24 |
| |
| 36 | 3 | 7 | 26 | 35 | 100 | -65 | 16 |
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Manager: Pep Guardiola
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
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Formation: 3 - 5 - 2
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Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
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Manchester City have won seven of their last eight home Premier League matches against Wolves, losing the other 2-0 in October 2019.
Since completing a league double over Man City in 1960-61, Wolves have managed just one top-flight double over the Citizens in 25 seasons, doing so in the 2019-20 campaign. They beat them 2-1 earlier this season at Molineux.
Wolves have completed one Premier League double over Man City since Pep Guardiola joined the club in 2016, doing so in 2019-20. No side in Guardiola’s entire league managerial career has completed more than one double over the Spaniard.
Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 19 Premier League games (W15 D4). They’ve already had four runs of 20+ without defeat in the competition (3 under Pep Guardiola), and could be the second side to do so five times after Manchester United (7).
Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 31 games in all competitions (W25 D6). The last Premier League team to have a longer run were Manchester United, who went 33 games without defeat between December and May in the 1998-99 campaign.
Wolves’ 2-1 win over Luton last time out ended a six-game winless run in the Premier League (D2 L4). Only twice this season have they had runs of consecutive victories, winning three in a row in December and two in a row in February.
All five of Wolves’ Premier League away wins this season have been against either teams starting the day in the relegation zone (2) or London clubs (3). They’ve lost 18 of their 20 Premier League away games against sides in the top two, winning the others at Tottenham (December 2018) and Man City (October 2019).
Man City’s Kevin De Bruyne has started six Premier League matches against Wolves and has both scored five goals and assisted five goals against them, although nine of those involvements came at Molineux (5 goals, 4 assists).
Kevin De Bruyne’s two assists in Man City’s 2-0 win against Nottingham Forest last time out took his overall tally in the Premier League to 110; he’s now just one behind second placed Cesc Fàbregas in the all-time ranking in the competition.
Both Hwang Hee-chan and Matheus Cunha have scored 11 Premier League goals for Wolves this season. There’s been just three occasions of a player scoring more for the club in a campaign – Steven Fletcher in 2011-12 (12), and Raúl Jiménez in 2018-19 (13) and 2019-20 (17).
