Man City trims Arsenal’s lead thanks to a hat-trick from Haaland.

Erling Haaland's fourth hat-trick for Manchester City brought his season total of goals to 31 across all competitions as Pep Guardiola's team thrashed relegation-threatened Wolves. Haaland had been experiencing a dry spell by his own incredibly high standards. However, the Norwegian destroyed Wolves in a 12-minute span either side of halftime after snapping a three-game losing streak against Tottenham on Thursday. To give the home team the lead at halftime, Haaland initially rose to head in a cross from Kevin de Bruyne. After Wolves captain Ruben Neves fouled Ilkay Gundogan, he converted a penalty, and then he scored his third after Jose Sa's pass out of his six-yard box went straight to Riyad Mahrez. Over the course of City's first 20 Premier League games, Haaland has now netted 25 goals. The previous high mark for this point in the season was five, which Luis Suarez achieved in 2013–14. With his current total, the Norwegian striker would have been eligible to win the Golden Boot in more than half of the 30 seasons since the English top division's renaming in 1992. Additionally, he already has the same number of hat-tricks in the Premier League as Mo Salah and a third of Sergio Aguero's record 12 from his outstanding ten years with Manchester City. Only Alan Shearer, with five, has scored more hat tricks in a single season in the Premier League. City is being driven by Haaland Guardiola spoke about the difficulty of maintaining drive and determination when you are so used to winning when he gave his extraordinary rant following the victory over Tottenham. Haaland is crucial to this team because of this. Three years ago, in Austria, the Norwegian won his last league championship. He won the German Cup with Borussia Dortmund as his final trophy. Haaland is not one of the City players who would be unmotivated by the prospect of winning a fifth championship in as many years, and the way the second half of this season plays out could reveal whether or not this is the case. After an hour, Guardiola decided there was no point in pushing the striker and replaced him with World Cup winner Julian Alvarez. The fact that Jack Grealish appears to be finding more consistency is additional good news for City. His teaser moves from the left are more reminiscent of his time at Aston Villa, and if Sa hadn't made one outstanding save and Nathan Collins hadn't been in the right place at the right time to clear another attempt, he would have scored in the first half. Mahrez's attempt was disallowed for offside, which allowed City to win easily and allowed Haaland to accept the applause of the home crowd at the conclusion.