Erling Haaland has ‘never felt better’ as goals keep coming for Manchester City

Erling Haaland believes he is in the form of his life after extending his latest remarkable goalscoring streak.

The Norwegian has found the net in each of his last nine matches for club and country after hitting City’s winner in the 1-0 victory at Brentford.

“You can say so, I’ve never felt better than I do now. So yeah, you can say so,” Haaland told City’s website.

His goal was a trademark strike, chasing a long ball over the top and bulldozing through Bees defenders Sepp van den Berg and Nathan Collins before firing home.

Haaland revealed Dutch centre-half Van den Berg had provoked him into scoring a “proper goal”.

“First five minutes he just kept on pushing me so I said ‘all right, let’s have it’. So then I started pushing him back,” he added.

“For me this is a proper goal. This goal for me is top. This is for me one of my better goals.

“I think it helps me because I was a bit tired before the game, going into the game I was thinking it’s going to be tough. Then after 10 seconds he started pushing me and it motivates me.

“All praise to him, honestly, he made me want to do that.”

For Brentford it was a first home defeat of the season and leaves them 16th, three points above the relegation zone.

“You never want to lose, especially at home as we want to make this place as tough as possible, so that’s really annoying,” said skipper Collins.

“The first half was probably too passive, we let them have too much space and didn’t get in their face enough. The goal is annoying, I thought we could have done better with that.

“In the second half, we tweaked a few things, pressed a bit higher and, overall, I thought we were better.

“We defended the box really well and made it hard for them, we created one or two chances and probably wish we created a bit more.”