{"id":19387,"date":"2024-02-28T06:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T06:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/fa-cup-erling-haaland-makes-history-after-scoring-five-goals-for-man-city\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T06:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T06:03:02","slug":"fa-cup-erling-haaland-makes-history-after-scoring-five-goals-for-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/fa-cup-erling-haaland-makes-history-after-scoring-five-goals-for-man-city\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup: Erling Haaland makes history after scoring five goals for Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Manchester City\u2019s Erling Haaland achieved another milestone in his career after becoming the club\u2019s first player to score five goals in two separate matches.<\/p>\n<p>In Man City\u2019s 6-2 rout of Luton Town in the fifth round of the FA Cup clash on Tuesday, the 23-year-old notched up a stunning hat-trick in the first 40 minutes before adding two more goals in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin De Bruyne provided the assist for four of the five goals, with Bernardo Silva setting up the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland\u2019s performance made him the first City player to net five goals in an FA Cup clash since 1926 and the first top-flight player to do so in the tournament since George Best in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Mateo Kovacic got City\u2019s sixth goal in the 72nd minute, as Pep Guardiola\u2019s side extended their unbeaten run to 18 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the win, City was dealt with a blow as Jack Grealish was substituted in the first half for groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>FA Cup: Erling Haaland makes history after scoring five goals for Man City<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City\u2019s Erling Haaland achieved another milestone in his career after becoming the club\u2019s first player to score five goals&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10280,8190,1031,15,160],"tags":[1033,3579,10281,1933,202,180,201],"class_list":["post-19387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erling-haaland","category-fa-cup","category-man-city","category-news","category-sport","tag-city","tag-cup","tag-erling","tag-haaland","tag-man","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}