{"id":47154,"date":"2026-04-04T18:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=47154"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:36:01","slug":"haaland-hits-46-goals-in-50-games-with-stunning-hat-trick-in-fa-cup-clash-vs-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/haaland-hits-46-goals-in-50-games-with-stunning-hat-trick-in-fa-cup-clash-vs-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Haaland hits 46 goals in 50 games with stunning hat-trick in FA Cup clash vs Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erling Haaland produced a ruthless masterclass as Manchester City thrashed Liverpool <strong>4-0<\/strong> in the FA Cup quarter-final at the Etihad Stadium on April 4, 2026. The Norwegian superstar scored a first-half brace before completing his hat-trick early in the second half, taking his staggering tally to <strong>46 goals in just 50 appearances<\/strong> for club and country this season.<\/p>\n<p>City, who had already lifted the League Cup with a dominant display against Arsenal before the international break, looked every bit the treble-chasing side that won the domestic clean sweep in 2018\/19. Liverpool, sitting fifth in the Premier League and with only the FA Cup and Champions League left to play for, were outclassed from the first whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland opened the scoring in the 39th minute from the penalty spot after Virgil van Dijk fouled O\u2019Reilly in the box. With his trademark stuttering run-up, he sent goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili the wrong way and calmly rolled the ball into the bottom corner, celebrating with a kung-fu kick on the corner flag. Two minutes into first-half stoppage time, Haaland made it 2-0. Cherki\u2019s clever run and pass released Semenyo, whose teasing cross was met by Haaland, who out-jumped Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 to power a header past Mamardashvili.<\/p>\n<p>After the break City refused to ease off. Antoine Semenyo, the Ghanaian midfielder, made it <strong>3-0 on 52 minutes<\/strong> with a delightful chip over the keeper after a perfectly weighted through-ball from captain Bernardo Silva. <strong>Haaland completed his hat-trick on 59 minutes,<\/strong> finishing a slick team move started by O\u2019Reilly and Doku, who squared the ball for the Norwegian to tap home from close range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erling Haaland produced a ruthless masterclass as Manchester City thrashed Liverpool 4-0 in the FA Cup quarter-final at the Etihad\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":47156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1077,3800,4057],"class_list":["post-47154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-erling-haaland","tag-manchester-city","tag-top-stories"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47163,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47154\/revisions\/47163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}