Erling Haaland settles thriller for Manchester City to end RB Leipzig resistance

Erling Haaland scored the decisive goal for Manchester City in their thrilling 3-2 victory in Germany after RB Leipzig twice equalised in the second half Feed Erling Haaland and Manchester City’s totemic No 9 will score. The problem, recently has been a paucity of openings for him. This was true again before, on 77 minutes, Elliot Anderson crossed and Haaland slid home for a priceless winner for Enzo Maresca’s disjointed unit, Rayan Cherki hitting a post late on. The win ends City’s sequence of two losses in three games yet the manager has major issues. He has to plug a leaky defence and drill his midfield to exert control.

And there is a shaky Gianluigi Donnarumma: City’s goalkeeper was culpable for Ridle Baku’s first equaliser for Leipzig, as he was for Nicolas Jackson’s winner in the recent defeat at Aston Villa, plus two more in last month’s Paris Saint-Germain loss. Still, after going down to Villa and Brighton in the Premier League, this win is a certifiable tonic ahead of Saturday’s trip to Nottingham Forest. City’s quest to return to victorious ways featured an XI of four changes from Saturday’s Brighton reverse. Most noteworthy was Maresca’s dropping of Rúben Dias as Abdukodir Khusanov’s pace was