Manchester City vs Fulham, Premier League LIVE: Erling Haaland hits second-half hat-trick

City make it four from four, and look well on their way to making it four of four titles. Can anyone stop them?

Far from their best today, yet Fulham go home with nothing to show for a spirited performance in a match that ends 5-1 to the Champions.

THE HAT-TRICK!

Rico Lewis cuts back for Haaland on the panlty spot and the Norwegian just whacks it past Leno. Hat-trick! Too. Easy.

Akanji tiptoes into the box and tries to get the ball backa cross goal but Ream is there to intercept.

Big cheers for Foden as he makes way for Norwegian prodigy Oscar Bobb.

We'll have SIX MINUTES of stoppage time.

Phillips' first minutes in the Premier League this season! Can he make an impression...?

This looked for all the world like a tough game for City, especially after the first 30 minutes. But no, it's a 12th successive home win in the league. It's 4-1. They've been so far from their best.

Well, he's been on all of two minuts and somehow finds his way into Michale Oliver's book.

Not a bad sub to make. Gomez is also on for debutant Doku, who's had a quiet game.

Ederson is called to action here as Jimenez squeezes a shot from the penalty spot. There's a hefty deflection too, so the shotstopper takes evasive action and gets there in the nick of time,

City have looked off sorts today, and yet they've absolutely slammed this Fulham side. It's ruthless stuff.

He missed last week but makes no mistake this time. He finds the net, no problem.

Diop barges into the back of Alvarez...Stonewall!

Haaland twists and turns and rusges forward before threading Alvarez through. Diop pulls off a brilliant tackle to keep the deficit at two.

Two behind, against the treble winners, they're up against it.

What can the Cottagers pull oiff with 30 minutes remaining?

Jimenez does brilliantly down the other end to cut inside and square for Harris who is in acres of space, but the midfielder can only dink a tame effort into Ederson's hands!

They go straight through the middle this time!

Rodri finds Alvarez whose dinked pass finds the running Haaland who makes no mistakes. So simple, so deadly!

Fulham looks so comfortable handling the City long ball up to Haaland. They're not letting the Norwegian have a sniff here.

Diop is a titan against him, despite his booking too!

Walker looked like he might leave the Etihad this summer but it turns out he's the most nailed defender in Pep's backline.

He does well here to surge forward and run clean past a through Fulham players but cannot quite get a cross away.