Manchester City sealed an important home victory against fifth-placed Newcastle United in yet another matchday of the Premier League. A pair of Phil Foden and Bernando Silva goals – both worthy of replays – sealed the three points for the Citizens.
— Manchester City (@ManCity) March 4, 2023
Like Foden and Silva, yet dissimilar to his usual goalscoring impact for the Sky Blues, Erling Haaland contributed to the win but in a more humorous way. He helped City keep a clean sheet with a time-wasting strategy execution for the ages.
Erling Haaland perfect time-wasting against Newcastle United
Need to time-waste next to the corner flag? Call Erling.
Manchester City were granted a corner kick as the game went through added time and with no intention of actually creating a goal-scoring opportunity from the set-piece, Jack Grealish called Haaland over to help him shave off some of the game's closing minutes next the corner flag. And boy did he choose the right player to do so.
This Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland shithouse on the corner flag. I love them
— (@ErlingRoIe) March 4, 2023
In a matter of about 55 seconds, the Citizens took four corner-kicks and all thanks to Haaland’s outrageous technique to deflect the ball onto the Newcastle defenders.
Haaland pasang corner over pic.twitter.com/SEDCvGlvep
— Garda Meier (@gardameier) March 5, 2023
He is quite the character.
Erling Haaland’s reaction after winning a set piece three times by holding it in the corner. Never change. pic.twitter.com/hCe4wVOTAj
— Louis Writtle (@LouisWrittle_) March 4, 2023
The No. 9’s time-wasting efforts also helped Ederson reach 100 clean sheets in 208 games for the Sky Blues, becoming the third faster goalkeeper to do so.
@premierleague clean sheets for Ederson! ⛔️⭐️#ManCity pic.twitter.com/Pxl6byIURa
— Manchester City (@ManCity) March 4, 2023
What can't Erling do?!
