Haaland to the double as Manchester City beat Porto in Champions League

Ayyoub Bouaddi debuts for Manchester City, but Erling Haaland stars in a 2-0 win in Porto.Published On 8 Sep 20268 Sep 2026Erling Haaland scored twice as Manchester City began their Champions League campaign with a 2-0 victory at Porto.Haaland was denied by a hat-trick of fine saves by Diogo Costa before half-time, but he was not to be denied early in the second half, as his downward header found the bottom corner.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Spain’s FA to fund IVF, egg freezing for female football players, refereeslist 2 of 4Lights, camera, action: Irksome influencers at the US Open are here to staylist 3 of 4‘Life became too hard’: Egypt’s vanishing wrestlers and a sport in crisislist 4 of 4Sabalenka interrupts US Open match against Rakhimova over cannabis smellend of listPorto pushed the English giants back for the rest of the second half but lacked the quality to punish Enzo Maresca’s men despite a series of sloppy errors from the visitors.Haaland showed the difference in class between the sides when he clinically slotted into the bottom corner in stoppage time to become City’s third-highest goalscorer of all-time on 167 goals.“We have all the pressure; we have...