Man City's 5-1 勝利，勝つ over Wolves felt like a 行う／開催する／段階ing 地位，任命する in a 肩書を与える 行列 - it seems only complacency can stop them from 存在 栄冠を与えるd 支持する／優勝者s ahead of 兵器庫, 令状s OLIVER HOLT

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Gary O’Neil, the Wolverhampton Wanderers 経営者／支配人, was serving a one-match touchline 中断 at The Etihad. As he sat in the 親族 anonymity of the stands, watching his 味方する 存在 破壊するd by Erling Haaland, O’Neil may have 反映するd that it was probably the best place to be.

City were 簡単に majestic as they swept Wolves aside 5-1. If they were feeling any 圧力 after 兵器庫 had beaten Bournemouth earlier in the day to move into a four-point lead at the 最高の，を越す of the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する, they did not show it. There was no 調印する of 神経s at all. If anything, they seemed even more relaxed than usual.

The truth? This felt like a carnival. It felt like a 行う／開催する／段階ing 地位，任命する in a 肩書を与える 行列. It felt like the 肉親，親類d of occasion that takes place when a team has already won the 肩書を与える, not when it is in the 中央 of a 猛烈な／残忍な fight with 兵器庫.

Before the game, some young kids took part in one of the rondos with the 代用品，人s during City’s warm-up. David Silva, a City legend, （機の）カム 支援する to the club for the first time since his 出発 and was introduced to the adoring （人が）群がる. It was a 祝賀 a few weeks before the denouement.

It felt as if City knew something we don’t. We 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う it, I suppose. We 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う they are going to 緩和する to that 前例のない fourth 肩書を与える by winning their final three games away at Fulham and Tottenham and at home to West Ham. City played like it is already a done 取引，協定.

Erling Haaland 破壊するd Wolves as Manchester City played with 最高の 信用／信任

Gary O’Neil sat in 親族 anonymity in the stands while serving a one-match touchline 禁止（する）

There was no arrogance about it. Just utter self-保証／確信. City have been here before. They know what it feels like and they know what it takes to get the 職業 done and they are setting about doing it with 最高の 信用／信任.

The jewel in their 栄冠を与える against Wolves was Haaland. How could it not be? He may have had a ‘静かな’ season, comparatively, after the 52 goals he 得点する／非難する／２０d in all 競争s on the way to the Treble last season.

But the four goals he 得点する／非難する／２０d against O’Neil’s wilting team moved him up to 25 league strikes for this season and all but 保証するd him of the Golden Boot for the second season in succession. Cole Palmer and Alexander Isak are five goals behind him. They will not catch him now.

Haaland was irresistible. Phil Foden, newly 栄冠を与えるd as the Football Writers’ 協会 Footballer of the Year, was irresistible, too. Wolves couldn’t 対処する with either of them. Haaland towered above the 対立, literally and figuratively. He 召喚するd a prodigious leap to 得点する／非難する／２０ a header, 挟むd between two 刑罰，罰則s, and then finished things off with a brilliant curling 発射 from 25 yards.

What was it that Roy Keane called him? A League Two player? He didn’t look like a League 2 player against Wolves. He looked like a Rolls Royce of a centre 今後, a centre 今後 who has got every gift in a centre 今後’s armoury. That 含むs an insatiable hunger for goals. He was 怒った when Pep Guardiola 代用品，人d him 近づく the end.

It had only taken City ten minutes to open the 得点する／非難する／２０ing. They worked the ball quickly 負かす／撃墜する the inside 権利 channel, Foden 押し進めるd a short ball to Bernardo Silva and he crossed first time に向かって Josko Gvardiol.

Gvardiol sprinted in on the blind 味方する of Rayan Ait-Nouri and just as Gvardiol got his 発射 away, he was felled by the Wolves defender, who did not seem to have seen him coming. 審判（をする） Craig Pawson pointed to the 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, Haaland sent Jose Sa the wrong way with his 刑罰，罰則.

City were 押し進めるing everything through Bernardo Silva on the 権利, where he was isolat ing Hugo Bueno. They nearly went two up when Bernardo drifted a cross to the 支援する 地位，任命する and Haaland’s 非常に高い header was beaten away at 十分な stretch by Sa.

Haaland 得点する／非難する／２０d two 刑罰，罰則s in a first-half hat-trick, before 追加するing his fourth after the break

Wolves 得点する／非難する／２０d after the interval when Ederson 押し進めるd a cross straight to Hwang Hee-chan

中途の through the half, Foden took on the entire Wolves defence and it looked, 簡潔に, as if he would （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 them all as he の近くにd in on goal. Nelson Semedo spoiled the 試みる／企てる at the last gasp with a 井戸／弁護士席-timed 取り組む and Wolves tried to 再編成する.

The 訪問者s began to play some nice football. Twice, Joao Gomes turned sweetly away from Mateo Kovacic in the centre of the pitch and 始める，決める up moves that 結局 創立者d. City, though, were relentless and soon they created another 開始.

Ten minutes before the interval, Hwang Hee-chan and Matheus Cunha contrived to lose the ball in the inside 権利 area that had already brought City so much joy. Kevin de Bruyne worked it quickly to Rodri and his cross, 深い to the 支援する 地位，任命する, was met by Haaland, who rose high above Semedo and 力／強力にするd his header across Sa and into the 逮捕する.

On the 一打／打撃 of half-time, Haaland raced through on goal 追求するd by Semedo. As Haaland pulled 支援する his left foot to shoot, Semedo challenged him but 軽く押す／注意を引くd his standing 脚 out from under him.

最初, it made it look as though Haaland had 簡単に 行方不明になるd his kick. We should have known better than to 疑問 him.?

VAR checked the replay and called 審判（をする） Craig Pawson over to the 監視する. It was a （疑いを）晴らす 刑罰，罰則.

Haaland took it again and 攻撃する，衝突する it in the same 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, to Sa’s 権利. Sa guessed 正確に this time but still could not save it. Haaland had a hat-trick before half time, which does not seem やめる as outlandish in his 指名する as it would 始める，決める against another player. It was the sixth hat-trick of his 首相 League career.

Wolves grabbed a goal 支援する seven minutes after the interval when Ederson flapped at a cross and only 後継するd in 押し進めるing it straight into the path of Hwang, who finished it coolly. The 祝賀s did not last for long.

いっそう少なく than a minute later, Ederson played the ball out of defence to Foden, Foden 攻撃するd a superb ball over the 最高の，を越す to Haaland and Haaland turned inside Max Kilman. Haaland looked up 25 yards from goal and curled a magnificent 発射 high into the far corner beyond the despairing dive of Sa.

Haaland nearly had a fifth on the hour when Gvardiol played a pass into his path and he 攻撃する，衝突する a 権利-foot 発射 that was 飛行機で行くing into the roof of the 逮捕する until Sa produced a 罰金 save to tip it over the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業.

Twenty minutes from the end, Foden skipped away from a challenge by Semedo on the half-way line before 前進するing and 目的（とする）ing a perfectly 手段d cross に向かって Haaland.?

Haaland chose to try to 得点する／非難する／２０ with a bicycle kick rather than a header and 行方不明になるd the ball 完全に. It was about the only thing that had gone wrong for him all evening.

Haaland was taken off eight minutes from time, and his 交替／補充 Julian Alvarez also 得点する／非難する／２０d

It may only be complacency that can stop Pep Guardiola's 味方する from winning the 肩書を与える yet again

Haaland was 代用品，人d eight minutes from time to a standing ovation. Seven minutes from time, his 交替／補充, Julian Alvarez, ran on to a ball from Rodri and slid it past Sa for City’s fifth. Guardiola looked as pleased with that goal as any that had been 得点する／非難する／２０d all evening.

City move on to Fulham next 週末 and it feels as if only complacency can stop them now. Unfortunately for 兵器庫, Guardiola hates the idea of complacency with every fibre in his 存在. He spends his career guarding against it. City are going to be awfully hard to stop.