'Monster Striker'Elling Holan led Manchester City to three consecutive wins with a brilliant hat-trick performance in two consecutive away games at West Ham.
Manchester City won 3-1 at 1:30 a.m. on the 1st (Korea time) in West Ham in the third round of the English Premier League (EPL) thanks to Holan's hat trick in the 10th minute, 30th minute, and 38th minute of the second half.
He scored the first goal in the 10th minute of the first half after receiving a pass from Bernardu Silva, but the game was 1-1 in the 19th minute with an own goal from Manchester City's Ruben Díaz pushing Jarrod Bowen's cross into his net. In the 30th minute of the first half, Holan shook the net with a strong shot to find the lead, and West Ham bothered Manchester City with strong pressure in the second half, but Holan broke through the offside trap and even scored his third goal to seal the match.
In the second round at home against Ipswich, he scored a hat trick in the 12th, 16th, and 43rd minutes of the first half, leading to a 4-1 victory and another hat trick in a week.
In his first season of the EPL two seasons ago, Holan set a league scoring record of 36 goals. BBC Sport diagnosed Holan as showing early signs of setting a similar record this season. "He came back from a good 'summer tour' due to Norway's Euro 2024 failure, looking fresher and hungrier than ever before this season."
The fatal determination of scoring two goals on six ball touches in 30 minutes is phenomenal. In the second half, he barely appeared amid West Ham's offensive aiming for a comeback goal, but he finished the victory by connecting Matheus Nunes' sharp through-pass with a 'one-shot one-kill' goal. His seven goals are more than the team record recorded by all teams in the Premier League other than Manchester City. It is his 11th hat trick in Manchester City and has scored 70 goals in 69 games, continuing his run to 100 goals in the league.
Source=Sky Sports
Speaking to Sky Sports after the match, Holan expressed his delight at the team's victory, saying "I'm happy because three points are the most important." "I feel good and energized after a long vacation and pre-season. The years have gone by so fast since I came here. Now that my body and feet have rested a little bit, I'm ready to do more now." "Only soccer players know how important rest is. It's a long season, so it's important to take good care of your body and mind. It's not as easy as people think. At the moment I'm feeling refreshed, and that part is the most important." `Three games and nine points are a good start, but let's not go too far ahead as we still have 70 games left this season, let's go through each game step by step,' he said, showing no excitement in the early pace.
