Erling Haaland said Manchester City have to back up a 3-1 win at Arsenal on Wednesday to go top of the Premier League with a consistent run of form. The Norwegian scored his 32nd goal of the season to seal the three points that knocked Arsenal off the top of the table for the first time since November. Arsenal still have a game in hand over their title rivals, but have now taken just one point from their last three games. “I’m so happy,” Haaland told Amazon Prime. “We needed this one and now we need to start going on a run because that’s what Man City do.” 

‘All the boys are champs’

Haaland is in his debut season in the Premier League, but many of his teammates have been part of City’s four title-winning campaigns in the past five years. “City, we—not me but all the boys and club here—are the champions so you can say so yes,” added Haaland on whether Pep Guardiola’s men had delivered the performance of champions. “They [Arsenal] have been the best team this season so to come on their place and play against them is not easy and we got three important points.”