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Haaland scores as Manchester City drop point in title race

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Aston Villa got a hard-earned point against champions Manchester city in front of their home fans. The visitors should have gone ahead in only the fourth minute, but England defender Kyle Walker shot wastefully wide with only Martinez to beat.

The visitors began to pile up pressure on Villa, but the defense stood their ground till the half-time whistle. Summer signing Haaland, from Borussia Dortmund, had scored back-to-back hat-tricks in City‘s wins over Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest.

However, he showed his class within five minutes of the restart by scoring from close range after De Bruyne’s well-timed cross had looped over Martinez to the back post for an easy, tapping for Haaland tenth goal of the season after five Premier League games. He is now the quickest player to reach ten goals in a limited number of games. After scoring in the 50th minute, Haaland had another two efforts saved by Villa keeper Emiliano Martinez and De Bruyne also hit the crossbar with a 22-yard free-kick.

Those missed chances proved costly as Bailey struck a sweet first-time shot into the top corner from Jacob Ramsey’s square pass to make it 1-1 in the 74th minute. Villa had only won one of their first five matches of the season and had been booed off after their last game at Villa Park, a 1-0 loss to West Ham the pressure was mounting already on Steven Gerrard after spending in the summer transfer window. But this point was enolve to take Villa out of the relegation zone. City had over 73% possession but couldn’t conjure a clear-cut chance, but Bailey scored with Villa’s only shot on target. Gerrard would be satisfied with the draw.

Meanwhile, Pep Guardiola will see this as two points dropped for City because a win would have taken them top of the EPL table for the meantime before Arsenal’s match on Sunday. But instead are second, one point behind the Gunners.

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