Pep Guardiola, the manager of Manchester City, has jokingly said that Erling Haaland ought to have scored a hat-trick against Southampton.
On Saturday, they thrashed Southampton 4-0 but the in-form Norwegian could only manage one goal.
In each of his last three Premier League games at the Etihad Stadium, Haaland has scored three goals.
The former Borussia Dortmund player had another opportunity to score, but he missed a close-range Kevin De Bruyne cross and fired one shot onto the inside of the post.
“I’m so upset with him – he didn’t score three goals. That’s why there’s a petition to sack him from the Premier League!” Guardiola joked in his post-match news conference.
“Expectations here are so high that people expect he’s going to score every game three or four goals. But at the end he was there to score it. He helped us again, keeping the ball and fighting and I think Erling played really well today.”
