West Ham vs Man City

It is not hard to imagine Pep Guardiola and his players being less than thrilled with their destination on the opening weekend of the 2022/23 Premier League ...

— — — — — — — — 2 hours to KO: Hello and welcome to The Sporting News' live coverage of West Ham vs. Before that, West Ham sat deep, soaked up pressure and numerous crosses and were ruthless on the break with two Jarrod Bowen goals. Interestingly, Bernardo Silva, who has been linked with a move to Barcelona, is on the bench, while Nathan Ake partners Ruben Dias in defence. 2nd minute: West Ham pile forward early on, with Antonio the focal point as expected.

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Start your Independent Premium subscription today. De Bruyne instead picks it up and his shot is dragged wide. It’s begging for a touch and Haaland is close to it, but he can’t connect with the header! Haaland was involved in flicking it on to Gundogan, who cut it back to De Bruyne for the finish. He made a big impact with his performances for Burnley last season and he has impressed me with his desire to improve and challenge himself further here at West Ham.” Pep Guardiola’s side have undergone a transformation this summer, bringing in arguably the world’s best striker in Erling Haaland, while losing Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus.

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Antonio did well a few minutes ago to draw a foul out of Dias on the halfway line. Cancelo with a really good run to take the visitors up the pitch. Antonio really good at charging down the ball following a Soucek punt up field. They may not win it back all of the the time, but City know what they are up against. City seeing a lot of the ball but it is very deep in their own half a lot of the time. Fell out to Rice who blazed over the bar from the edge of the box. His run and pass fell to Foden who put in the perfect cross. Somehow it evaded Haaland when he was unmarked and it goes just wide. Big chance for the Hammers. Gundogan's pass cut out by Lanzini. Worked across to Antonio, who played it wide. Areola comes on for West Ham as Fabianski goes off injured before the half hour mark. Erling Haaland gets his second of the game and City's second. Scamacca a real outlet and his presence and flick on started that move.

Soccer Football - Premier League - West Ham United v Manchester City - London Stadium, Haaland scored twice on his Premier League debut (Photo: Reuters).

7/10 Unclear how many games he has left at City. 6/10 Very nearly gave Haaland his hattrick with a neat pullback. Erling Haaland – Tried to stretch his neck to connect with a dinked Foden cross that could have resulted a debut goal. Stifling the Man City midfield is a two-man job (at least). 6/10 Ilkay Gundogan – Broke the lines at will and provided the pass for Haaland to win his first-half penalty. Does the kind of work that allows Gundogan and De Bruyne to flourish. Kevin De Bruyne – Thought he had opened the scoring in the first half before Gundogan was flagged for offside. Kurt Zouma – Looked a little heavy-legged when Haaland sprinted away from him in the second half and even more so after an Alvarez shot absolutely smashed him flush in the face in added time. Far better defenders will be made to look silly by him. Ben Johnson – Got his body position wrong when Haaland started accelerating past him and could not get turned around in time to react. Lukaz Fabianski – A little shaky early on, heading a ball that he might have been able to wait and catch, before flapping at a De Bruyne cross.

Erling Haaland marked his first Premier League game with both goals as Man City opened the campaign with an ominously dominant win at West Ham.

They travel to newly promoted Nottingham Forest in the Premier League (Aug. 14) before facing the first leg of their UEFA Europa Conference League playoff opponent at home (Aug. 18) and then hosting Brighton (Aug. 21) in the Premier League. (Their Europa opponent? With two years left to run on his contract, West Ham may have to offload Rice next summer if he fails to agree a new deal, but if a big offer comes in before the Aug. 31 transfer deadline, it could be tempting for both West Ham and Rice to make the move happen. But although he remains a West Ham player, there is still time for a bigger, wealthier club to make a move for the England international this month, and there are two in particular -- Chelsea and Manchester United -- who have been long-term admirers of Rice and who both still need midfield reinforcements. But the former Paris Saint-Germain keeper, who replaced the injured Lukasz Fabianski on 29 minutes, gifted City the opening goal just seven minutes after going on when he raced off his line and fouled Haaland with a reckless dive that resulted in a penalty. In terms of dominating the game, there were times when City had more than 75% of possession, and this was against a West Ham team that almost clinched a top-six finish last season. If their slick performance against West Ham is a gauge of what is to come, however, the chasing pack will have to sprint just to keep up. Also, it's been almost 30 minutes since I scored the last goal, so I have to keep going." But Haaland scored both goals as City made a winning start to the defence of their title and their star signing showed that he will be a huge asset to Pep Guardiola's team. There was certainly no rust in the win at the London Stadium. Erling Haaland's two goals got the new signing off the mark, and he has added greater potency to a team that already scored plenty. Meanwhile, his second was a classic striker's goal, one that underlined his pace, movement and nerveless ability to beat a keeper in a one-on-one situation. It's fair to say he is already living up to the job description. His first was from the penalty spot after his clever run behind the Hammers' defence was picked out by Ilkay Gundogan. After showing impressive pace to beat Hammers substitute goalkeeper Alphonse Areola to the ball and earn the penalty, Haaland sent him the wrong way from the spot with a precise penalty that nestled in the corner of the net.

Manchester City kicked off their new season with a win as Erling Haaland scored both goals in a 2-0 victory over West Ham.

- Pep Guardiola's new No.9 planted the ball on the spot after being fouled in the area and slammed home his first in the league to break the deadlock. City fans have taken to serenading Micah Richards and Roy Keane in the Sky studio to their left. Yes his hold up play will improve but that movement in the final third was expectational. We had a minute and I told the players that but after that it’s a case of staying in the game. City lost to Tottenham on the opening weekend last year and saw their biggest threat to another title, Liverpool, held by Fulham on Saturday, so were already prepared for a difficult assignment first up. The 22-year-old lost his marker with a neat swivel before latching on to an Ilkay Gundogan through ball. Just about recovered in time after dropping a routine ball in the penalty area, then down to keep out a Benrahma effort. City are just passing their way to victory here. If you saw the Gundo right before I went off I should’ve been there so it was a bit s*** but that’s how it is. But look, their quality told in the end and we were missing one or two at the back The passes will come, should’ve been more today but good start. We tried hard to replicate what we did last season but they were so good today.

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Pep Guardiola explained why he selected Phil Foden to start for Man City at West Ham in the Premier League.

"He’s settled really well in the locker room," Guardiola added. "I couldn’t decide for one, Phil trained incredibly well this week. Foden missed City's pre-season tour of the US and started the Community Shield on the bench, but Guardiola explained his decision.

Man Citys confirmed line-up Erling Haaland starts up front, but Barcelona target Bernardo Silva only makes the bench. West Hams confirmed line-up Mich.

They'll have to navigate this Premier League opener first though, a task made easier by keeping hold of star men Declan Rice and Jared Bowen over the summer. Surprisngly wayward effort from De Bruyne. The ball falls to Rice at the edge of the box but the Englishman leans back and sends his shot well over the bar.

Enjoy the best of the action from City's superb start to the new Premier League season away at West Ham.

Play the video to enjoy the best of the action from the London Stadium... With City also keeping a clean sheet it made for the perfect start to the new league season. Summer signing Erling Haaland enjoyed a dream Premier League debut, bagging a brace of goals in either half as Pep Guardiola's side began the 2022/23 in formidable fashion.

Match report and highlights as Erling Haaland marked his Premier League debut with a well-taken double against West Ham; the striker became the second Man ...

We found it hard to outnumber them in the middle of the pitch. We talk about the team, the way we want to play, the way we want to create chances. "We tried to do it, but we couldn't get near them today. "We hung in, stuck at it, against a team that have completely outplayed us. I hope that next time we play them we might be able to offer something different. We want to try and give everything to him to become a better player. The Norway international predictably found the back of the net with a coolly-struck spot-kick to make the breakthrough (26), but it was his second entry that pleased manager Guardiola most. The way he took the ball for the penalty, I like that. We found the right moments with the goals today." Feel happy in the city, feel happy in the team. The match was over when Haaland raced onto De Bruyne's through ball nine minutes after Rice's miss, leaving Areola stranded as he swept into the far corner. "We make an exceptional performance everywhere today.

David Moyes and his West Ham United team host the Premier League champions Manchester City on Sunday, the league campaign opener for both sides.

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City were at something close to our dominant best on Sunday afternoon, with two Erling Haaland goals seeing off West Ham United at the London Stadium.

Ake, Rodrigo, Dias and Walker took second to fifth respectively in that metric, showing that City spent a lot of time manoeuvring West Ham around the pitch before feeding into the attacking players. And City were equally as impressive in that regard. The beefed up midfield allowed City to dominate possession, making 833 passes and completing 774 of them. We won 39 of the 68 duels (57%) according to FotMob, beating the Hammers to the ball on the floor 28 times and in the air on 11 occasions. Haaland wasted no time letting Premier League defenders know exactly what to expect from him. That sees the Blues off to the perfect start in the Premier League as we seek to defend the title we have won in four of the last five seasons.