Man City vs FC Copenhagen LIVE: Champions League result, final score & reaction as Haaland nets twice in rout

After the first, Pep Guardiola turned to the bench shaking his head in disbelief, as if this was not what everyone in attendance at the Etihad had come to see. As if it wasn’t what everyone has come to expect.

After the second, the Manchester City manager rubbed his hands in glee, mouthing several ‘wows’ in the direction of his staff. You would have thought, at that point, that he would keep Erling Haaland on the pitch long enough to score a third.

But it turns out for Guardiola, not even maintaining one of the most extraordinary starts to life at a new club that any centre-forward has had in recent memory is as important as proper rest and rotation. Haaland was removed at half-time of this 5-0 victory over Copenhagen. Even so, it is now a remarkable 19 goals in 12 competitive games for City, and 28 goals in 22 appearances in the Champions League - as many as Ryan Giggs managed in 21 years.

Erling Haaland’s double against FC Copenhagen on Wednesday saw him match Lionel Messi for the longest scoring run under Pep Guardiola’s management.

The Norwegian has hit the ground running at Manchester City and has 17 goals in his last nine appearances, with three hat-tricks and at least one goal in each game.

Here, the PA news agency looks at how Haaland compares to Messi, as well as the previous longest runs for Guardiola’s City side:

Earlier tonight Celtic slumped to defeat and now face an uphill battle to qualify for the Champions League knockout stages after a 3-1 Champions League loss against RB Leipzig.

Christopher Nkunku opened the scoring from a 27th-minute counter-attack after Celtic lost the ball following a short corner and, with captain Callum McGregor off injured, the visitors could not build on Jota’s equaliser.

Leipzig had just had a second goal disallowed following VAR’s intervention when goalkeeper Joe Hart presented the home team with the ball to allow Andre Silva to score the first of his two second-half goals.

The defeat leaves Celtic bottom of Group F with one point from three matches but they have both Leipzig and Shakhtar Donetsk to come at Parkhead in the next two games.

Erling Haaland has scored 28 goals in 22 appearances in the Champions League, a goals per game record of 1.27; there are 98 teams with a worse goals per game record than him in the competition.

90 mins: Sergio Gomez meets a floated corner on the volley and blasts it at goal but Kamil Grabara makes a great svae to turn the ball over the crossbar. He’s let in five goals and has been Copenhagen’s best player tonight.

The final whistle goes and City make it three wins from their three Champions League matches this season.

87 mins: The game is winding down now. Just a few minutes left to play with City complete control.

82 mins: Jack Grealish meets a cross from Riyad Mahrez on the volley and side-foots his effort into the deck where the ball bounces up and flies just wide of the right-hand post.

He’s desperate for a goal and deserves one for this performance tonight.

79 mins: How many more can City score? Cole Palmer lifts the ball over to the left side of the are from the opposite wing and finds Gundogan who lifts an effort over the crossbar!

Just over 10 minutes to play, the home side could easily get one or two more before the close.

76 mins: Julian Alvarez is off the mark in the Champions League. They step up the tempo and send Riyad Mahrez bombing into the box down the right side. He squares the ball into the six-yard area where Alvarez is free to guide it home!