An amazing achievement by Haaland who scored 5 in City's last FA cup game against Luton. He was close to scoring a double hattrick.
That's a bit of relief as it was starting to look like he had developed some mental block, as he wasn't quite able to score in recent games despite having really good situations. But if 5 goals in one game doesn't restore his confidence, nothing will.
They're playing against their arch-rivals, Man United on Sunday. City is a massive favourite but those games are unpredictable and City needs Haaland in good disposition.
After Haaland recovered from his injury, he seemed to have lost his sharpness in several matches. As if he had doubts about his performance. But in the match against Luton, it seemed like Haaland's confidence had returned and enabled him to score lots of goals.
In the match against Man United, Haaland may have to prove whether he has returned to his best performance or he was just lucky in the match against Luton.
For Luton to concede up to 6 goals, Haaland scoring 5 goals, the coach of Luton has to be blamed for it, for playing 3 men's defense against a team that each of their players can score.
The Luton coach chooses the wrong formation of 3-4-2-1 to play against Manchester City. He would have played a defensive game even though Manchester City wins, the goals they will concede won't amount to 6 but rather 2-3 goals.
The combo of De Bruyne and Haaland in a match is very deadly to a team whose defense is weak. Luton's defense was on the lose side, which made them easily penetrable by De Bruyne passes to Haaland.
A team that has a strong defense, Manchester City hardly scored more than 2 goals. Observe this, when Manchester City plays a team with a strong defense, Haaland hardly scores. If he gats to score it won't be above a goal.
Watch out, Haaland will either score a goal or will not when Manchester City meets against Manchester United on Sunday.