Haaland gets 10
The Manchester Evening News explains: "Average is scored every 12 minutes, making a difficult game absurdly easy." The pages Sofascore and Whoscored also scored Man City's owner 10 points.
At the Etihad Stadium yesterday, Haaland touched the ball 30 times, completed only 69% of the ball with a decisive pass, successfully dribbled twice but scored five goals from eight shots on target. The 22-year-old striker could have scored more, if not for Julian Alvarez from the 63rd minute.
Haaland opened the scoring from the 22nd minute penalty. Just 19 seconds after Leipzig returned the ball, he doubled the lead with a high header from Kevin de Bruyne's shot over the bar. At half-time, the Norwegian striker completed his hat-trick, when he hit the back stone from Ruben Dias' header that hit the post. In the second half, Haaland scored two more goals from two other close-range kicks, with his left and right foot respectively.
The second highest scorer from the Manchester Evening News is De Bruyne with 9 points. The Belgian midfielder played the full 90 minutes, touched the ball 75 times, passed with 83% accuracy with four decisive passes, crossed twice, successfully dribbled twice and finished twice. He shot his left foot from outside the box to hit the bar to help Haaland score in the 24th minute. In the second minute of the second half, De Bruyne cut the right foot from outside the penalty area to the top corner to seal a 7-0 victory, bringing Man City entered the quarterfinals with a total score of 8-1.
There are five Man City players rated 8, including Nathan Ake, Rodri, Ilkay Gundogan, Bernardo Silva and Jack Grealish. The players who received 7 points were Manuel Akanji, Dias, John Stones and two substitutes Phil Foden, Riyad Mahrez.
The Manchester Evening News gave Ederson the lowest score, with 5 points. The Brazilian goalkeeper only faced a shot on target from RB Leipzig and nearly made Man City conceded with a risky handling situation in the penalty area.