Erling Haaland’s debut season with Manchester City was outstanding both as a team and as an individual. He won the treble at the age of just 22 and finished with the Premier League Golden Boot award.
This season, Haaland may be slow to heat up. But he came at the right time with three goals and one assist. His four-goal contribution in the match brings the Norwegian striker’s combined goals and assists to 50. Playing just 39 matches, which is the highest in Premier League history.
The absence of Joao Palinha causes Fulham problems.
Manchester City controlled the midfield. This is partly because Fulham is missing an important midfielder like Joao Palinha, who was unable to move to Bayern Munich on deadline day, and he was not named in the game.
We had expected City to dominate the game for the majority of the game, but the absence of Palinha was a huge blow to Fulham as it gave the Manchester home team quicker access to their defense. Because there was no filter like the Portuguese midfielder, Harrison Reed, who started instead, could not be replaced.
Nathan Ake’s goal was offside or not?
Fulham manager Marco Silva criticized the referee’s performance for a big mistake. From the moment Nathan Ake’s goal led 2-1 at the end of the first half, it was viewed as being offside.
The shock in question occurred in first half injury time. When the score was still tied at 1-1, Foden took a corner kick for Ake to hit the net, but Manuel Akanji was standing in front of the goal in an offside position, blocking the path of Bernd Leno’s pass.
On-field referee Michael Oliver gave Manchester City a goal, while the VAR panel, led by Tony Harrington, confirmed the goal. amid strong protests from the visiting ยูฟ่าเบท team
Mike Dean, former Premier League referee He confirmed that it was the referee’s mistake in not calling him offside.
“I thought this moment couldn’t be a goal,” Dean said.
“Akanji jumped over the football. And it must be counted as disturbing the opposite side. He made Leno hesitate.”