Alan Shearer currently stands as the fastest player to ever score 100 Premier League goals; the striker managed the feat in 124 appearances. Haaland, therefore, has his next 16 league appearances to break the long-standing record.

Haaland did not travel to Wales in midweek and was handed a well-earned rest by Guardiola, who has admitted to worries over Manchester City’s over-reliance on the 25-year-old to keep producing the goods in front of goal every week in the absence of goals from elsewhere.