Haaland's winning goal guided City to beat Arsenal by 4-1

In the EPL, Man City defeated the leader Arsenal 4-1 and took a critical victory on the way to the championship in the League title race on Wednesday at Etihad Stadium to close the gap between them and the Gunners. City’s Norwegian star Erling Haaland marked the match with his performance. The 22-year-old striker, who played a leading role in the victory with 1 goal and 2 assists, became the owner of a new record in the Premier League. With the goal De Bruyne at 7 and 54, Stones at 45+1 and Haaland at 90+5 scored the winning goals for City.

With this result, Guardiola's team reduced the difference in points with Arsenal to 2 despite still playing 2 more matches and took a giant step towards the EPL title once again. Arsenal after facing the defeat, is still on the top with 75 points after 33 league matches and the Gunners are followed by Citizens with 73 points after 31 league games. 

The Citizens' star footballer Haaland, who broke many records this season, also made history in the Arsenal match. The stalwart striker a leading role in the victory by making 2 assists in the fight where he scored 1 goal.

With his goal against the Gunners, Haaland increased the number of goals in the league to 33 and went down in history as the player who scored the most goals in a season in the English Premier League. The previous record was held by Liverpool's Egyptian star Mohamed Salah with 32 goals in 2017-18.

Haaland, who played 42 matches across formats for City this season, scored 49 goals, and he will certainly increase this number even more with 7 weeks left in the league. He has directly contributed to 57 goals this season, with 8 assists in addition to 49 goals in all competitions. The Norwegian star thus became the player who contributed the most goals in Europe's five major leagues. He scored a 15-goal difference to his closest opponent in this statistic, fit a goal or assist in every 58 minutes he played this season so far.