Rayan Cherki scored two goals in five minutes and Erling Haaland also got a brace as Manchester City won at Crystal Palace 4-1 to maintain its perfect start to the Premier League on Friday.
Haaland, the league top goal-scorer last season, opened his account after 17 minutes with a neat header. Cherki, though, was in fine form and restored City’s two-goal advantage two minutes later when his deflected shot from just outside the box wrong-footed keeper Dean Henderson. It was the first brace of his Premier League career but he was not happy and called his performance “so-so. Haaland rounded off the scoring with a left-footed strike six minutes from time and City was on top of the league with six points from its first two games. “We are trying to work every day and implement the gaffer’s way of playing in and out of possession. I think we improved from last week and were in the game for longer. We need to keep at it and next week hopefully we’ll be even better.”
“When I see Enzo Maresca wanted to change me I didn’t like that, so I had to show him I wanted to play and wanted to score,” Cherki said of the recently appointed coach.
