Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has joked that Erling Haaland should have scored a hat-trick against Southampton.
The in-form Norwegian could only grab one goal as they hammered Southampton 4-0 on Saturday.
Haaland has netted a hat-trick in each of his last three Premier League appearances at the Etihad Stadium.
The former Borussia Dortmund man could have add another, firing one shot onto the inside of the post and failing to make contact with a Kevin De Bruyne cross from close range.
“I’m so upset with him – he didn’t score three goals. That’s why there’s a petition to sack him from the Premier League!” Guardiola joked in his post-match news conference.
“Expectations here are so high that people expect he’s going to score every game three or four goals. But at the end he was there to score it. He helped us again, keeping the ball and fighting and I think Erling played really well today.”