West Ham vs Man City LIVE: Premier League result and final score as Erling Haaland goals seal opening win
West Ham 0-2 Manchester City: Pep Guardiola’s champions made a perfect start as Haaland scored twice on his Premier League debut
Erling Haaland scored twice on his Premier League debut as Manchester City opened their title defence with a dominant win at West Ham United.
The striker got off the mark in the first half at the London Stadium as he won and then converted a penalty to give City a deserved lead.
West Ham struggled in the heat as City took charge of the ball and it wasn’t until the hour mark that David Moyes’ side posed any questions of the champions.
But it left space at the other end and Kevin De Bruyne’s perfect pass released Haaland, as the 22-year-old finished under Alphonse Areola to double City’s lead.
Relive the action from the London Stadium below after Manchester United were beaten by Brighton
HALF TIME: West Ham 0-1 Manchester City
A brutal half for West Ham and City lead through Haaland’s first Premier League goal from the spot.
West Ham 0-1 Manchester City
45 +3 mins: A chance for West Ham before the break? Nope, Bowen’s free kick is headed away by the first man.
Guardiola is frowning at Grealish, whose product from the left after cutting inside has been really poor.
West Ham 0-1 Manchester City
45 mins: There will be four minutes of added time. West Ham will be lucky to average a pass a minute at the break.
West Ham 0-1 Manchester City
42 mins: West Ham have offered nothing since the opening couple of minutes, but Ake does well to shut down Bowen as the forward looked to get around the outside.
West Ham have completed 40 passes so far. City? 340.
GOAL! West Ham 0-1 Manchester City (HAALAND pen 35’)
Brilliant penalty from Haaland. He steps up and sends Areola the wrong way as he strokes the ball into the bottom left corner.
City needed something to unlock West Ham and Haaland’s acceleration and burst of speed to win the penalty proved key. It almost caught Areola by surprise.
PENALTY! West Ham 0-0 Manchester City
Penalty to Manchester City! The ball is played through to Haaland, who bursts onto the ball. Areola rushes out and brings him down.
Haaland will take it.
West Ham 0-0 Manchester City
30 mins: Antonio went down after landing from a duel with Dias. He’s back up and hobbling but looks to be playing on. City continue to stroke the ball around but Walker, who is drifting into midfield positions, floats a pass out of play.
West Ham 0-0 Manchester City
29 mins: Fabianski can play no further part and is replaced by Alphonse Areola.
It came from this incident as the goalkeeper flew in to make the punch.
West Ham 0-0 Manchester City
27 mins: City have the ball in the net but Gundogan was offside in the build up. Haaland was involved in flicking it on to Gundogan, who cut it back to De Bruyne for the finish.
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