Pep Guardiola believes Erling Haaland has already silenced the doubters

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola believes Erling Haaland has already silenced the doubters after his debut double sank West Ham 20Haaland had faced some criticism for his underwhelming performance in the Community Shield defeat by Liverpool last weekend But the 51 million pound striker announced his arrival in the Premier League in style with a goal in each half a penalty followed by a neat finish to open his City account reports DPAOne week ago he could not adapt to the Premier League Now hes alongside Thierry Henry Alan Shearer and Cristiano Ronaldo smiled City boss GuardiolaHes a guy with incredible talent a scorer of goals Ive known him for a month I know how he handled criticism this week and he was calm he trained really well We will see when he is complimented how he reactsHaaland had already glanced a header wide when he was gifted the chance to get off the markAlphonse Areola had only been in the West Ham goal for a couple of minutes after coming on as a substitute for the injured Lukasz Fabianski when he brought the Norway international downThere was only one player who was going to take the penalty and Haaland expertly sent Areola the wrong way with a low spotkick which clipped a post on its way inThe way he took the ball to take the penalty I said oh I like it added GuardiolaI think if someone were to take this ball he would have punched his teammates in the face Im pretty sure of that and that is a good signAlso Read Don Bosco Scottish ooze confidence as MSSA football resumes after twoyear breakYouve got to be selfconfident ambitious and have a ruthless mentality And of course he scored itHaaland put the game to bed with 25 minutes remaining when he raced on to Kevin De Bruynes throughball and slotted it past AreolaThe 22yearold probably fancied another debut hattrick having managed that feat twice before but Guardiola took him off with 15 minutes remainingI was fortunate as a manager to be with Lionel Messi and if he scored two he wanted three if he scored three he wanted four and if he got four he wanted five said GuardiolaThe top goalscorers the strikers they are never satisfied They are always hungry starving they always want more and moreBut at the same time I have to involve the new players and make sure everyone gets the minutesWest Ham did look there for the taking Despite a summer of rebuilding they somehow contrived to start the season with only one centrehalf availableIt was really difficult said manager David Moyes who revealed that defender Issa Diop had not made himself available to playThey played really well We found it very hard today It was really difficult tactically to deal with We couldnt get near them todayFrom our point of view we were resilient we hung in there and stuck at itBut today the talk should be about Manchester City They played very well Hopefully we can do better in the weeks and months to comeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever