Manchester City held back pieces for the Champions League, but Haaland set off the alarm in the last play.

With more difficulties than expected and facing a newly promoted opponent that did not give up until the end, Manchester City adopted the Premier mode, which has provided them with victories in every game, and surpassed Ipswich at the Etihad to sign the best start in the League. The Enzo Maresca team, thrashed on Tuesday against Paris Saint Germain in the Champions League (2-4), resumed the pace in domestic competition. They set aside the consequences of the European blow and the aftermath, as well as the guilt verdict of 114 charges for financial irregularities, and maintained the form against their rival. Maresca changed his lineup and reserved players usually starters like Enzo Fernández -entered in the 5th minute of the second half-, Jokso Gvardiol, Rayan Cherki, Elliot Anderson or Antoine Semenyo and with that pushed forward in a match that provided them with their seventh consecutive victory and positioned Maresca as the first manager to achieve such a record with City, ahead of Pep Guardiola, who had equaled it in the previous match. Erling Haaland was not rotated. He doesn't rotate. The Norwegian is a guarantee and once again proved decisive for the victory against Ipswich. A brace and another win. Seven goals in seven Premier games so far. Although the image of the end caused concern: he walked to the locker room after making a poor play in the last move of the match. SIGNS OF CONCERN IN THE ANDROID! Haaland made a poor play in this move and walked to the locker room after the final whistle in City's victory against Ipswich. — SportsCenter (@SC_ESPN) October 17, 2026 📺 Watch the Premier League on ESPN in the Premium Plan of #DisneyPlus pic.twitter.com/HEkwEz0P9e City, which hosts AEK Athens in another European chapter, the third one, encountered an organized opponent that navigates classification with ease. They arrived at Manchester located in the middle of the Premier League table, with three games won and several losses. Despite conceding the score at 19 minutes with Phil Foden's goal, inside the area, from a pass by Belgian Dominik Doku, the visitors had barely suffered with a header from Ruben Dias that forced goalkeeper Christian Walton to appear and quickly sought the equalizer. And they achieved it two minutes later, when the leader had not yet assimilated the advantage. It was with a perfect pass from Guemissongui Ouattara to Daizen Maeda, faster than his marker. He left him on the floor to Nico O'Reilly, faced Gianluigi Donnarumma and surpassed him. Until Erling Haaland appeared. It was not long. After a threat from Emersson, which could have put Ipswich ahead by half an hour, the Norwegian burst into the game in the last ten minutes, when he put the net, with a header, of a wonderful pass from Mateo Kovacic. The advantage was at halftime. After that, the Gary O'Neil team continued with their hopes, who threatened with a high shot from Abdou Ouattara and when the match turned into an exchange of blows, they resolved the Viking goalscorer once again. He sealed it in the 69th minute, when he took advantage of a pass from Ilman Ndiaye to once again surpass Walton and close the match that consolidates him at the top of the Premier. However, five minutes from the end, the VAR disallowed a goal for Haaland and, in the other area, a foul by Marc Guehi on the Ghanaian Issahaku Fatawu resulted in the penalty that turned the Dutchman Zian Flemming into added time and complicated the final stretch for the leader, who still clung to the victory by 3-2. Source: EFE See also See also Clarín Newsletter I received all the news, stories, and analyses from Clarín journalists in your mail I WANT TO RECEIVE IT