On January 22, the 21st round of the 2022/23 Premier League season, Manchester City played against Wolves at home. In the first half, De Bruyne assisted Harland to score for Blue Moon to take the lead; in the second half, Harland scored two goals in 4 minutes to complete a hat-trick. At the end of the game, Manchester City beat Wolves 3-0. After this campaign, Manchester City has 14 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses in 20 games with 45 points, and is still 5 points behind the leader Arsenal in the case of one more game.
There have been 82 historical confrontations between the two sides in various competitions. Manchester City has 32 wins, 17 draws and 33 losses. They have played against each other 17 times in the Premier League. Manchester City has 11 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses. Manchester City has maintained a complete victory against Wolves in the last five Premier League games. Their last loss dates back to the 19th round of the 2019/20 season, when Manchester City lost 2-3 away to Wolves.
In this game, Harland started as the lone striker and De Bruyne led the midfield. In the 19th minute, Manchester City intercepted the ball on the left side of the frontcourt. Harland received a diagonal pass from De Bruyne on the left side of the penalty area and then volleyed with his left foot, which was saved by Jose Sa. In the 23rd minute, Lewis received a pass from his teammate on the right side of the front of the penalty area and made a pass. Glarish volleyed with his right foot on the left side of the goal and went over the crossbar. In the 29th minute, Gundogan scored the ball. Glarish stopped the ball on the left side of the perimeter and then suddenly bombarded the goal with his right foot. Jose Sa shot the ball with both palms.
In the 30th minute, Lewis made a curve ball from the right side of the perimeter to the center of the penalty area, and Gundogan headed high. In the 33rd minute, Rodri shot from outside the penalty area with his right foot over the crossbar. In the 40th minute, the deadlock on the field was finally broken. Mahrez swayed back and forth on the right side of the front court. De Bruyne did not stop the ball from the right side of the penalty area and directly passed the ball to the middle of the penalty area. Harland jumped high and headed into the net. Manchester City led, 1-0! In the 43rd minute, Glarish was tripped by Collins while dribbling the ball in the penalty area. The referee on duty did not award a penalty after checking VAR. At the end of the first half, Manchester City temporarily led Wolves 1-0.
In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. In the 49th minute, Ake slanted to the left side of the penalty area, and Gundogan was knocked to the ground by Neves at high speed. The referee on duty decisively awarded a penalty kick, and then Harland scored a goal with a left-footed shot. For the second time, Manchester City expanded the score to 2-0! Relying on this goal, Harland scored 17 home goals in the Premier League this season, and he also broke Aguero’s single-season home goals in the Premier League created in the 2011/12 season Record (16 goals).
In the 52nd minute, Glarish picked a pass from the left side of the penalty area, and Mahrez nodded and hit the side net. In the 54th minute, Wolves goalkeeper José Sa made a mistake and passed the ball directly to Mahrez. Staged a hat-trick, Manchester City rewritten the score again, 3-0! This is the fourth time Harland has staged a hat-trick in the Premier League this season, surpassing the number of hat-tricks previously created by Ronaldo (3 times). Counting this goal, Haaland has scored 25 goals in the Premier League this season.
In the 60th minute, Alvarez came on to replace Harland. In the 66th minute, De Bruyne obliquely plugged near the left side of the arc of the restricted area. Mahrez outflanked the middle of the restricted area and scored. The line referee raised the flag to signal offside and the goal was invalid. In the 73rd minute, De Bruyne sent a precise through pass in the middle of the front court. Alvarez dribbled into the penalty area and leaned on the opponent’s defender. Since then, neither side has achieved anything. At the end of the game, Manchester City beat Wolves 3-0 at home.
The lineup of both sides:
Manchester City (3-2-4-1): 31-Edson/5-Stones, 25-Akanji, 14-Laporte/82-Lewis (46’6-Ake), 16- Rodri (77’4-Phillips)/26- Mahrez (81’80-Palmer), 17-De Bruyne (77’20-Bernardo-Silva), 8-Guindo Ann, 10-Glarish/9-Haaland
Wolves (4-3-3): 1-José Sa/22-Semedo, 4-Collins, 23-Kilman, 64-Hugo Bueno (81’3-Nuri)/ 5-Lemina (67’10-Pordens), 8-Neves, 27-Nunez/37-Traore (46’21-Sarabia), 9-Jimenez (46 ’12-Cunha), 11-Huang Xican (46’28-Moutinho)