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00:00Well, a Manchester City victory today would give them four wins from four at the start of a Premier League season for the sixth time, equalling the record held by Chelsea.
00:08Charged with keeping Brentford out today is the clear keeper of choice in these parts, Ederson.
00:12Rico Lewis starts a fourth successive Premier League game in a campaign for the first time in his career.
00:17John Stones and Kyle Walker return in place of Ruben Diaz and Josco Guardiola.
00:21There's a first City start for the recently returned Ilkay Gundogan since the Champions League final victory over Inter Milan in June of last year.
00:29Savino is fit, and there was a doubt about earning Haaland's involvement after the passing of a close family friend.
00:35But his start, his seven goals in three games so far, mean that he has outscored every other team in the Premier League by himself.
00:44Phil Foden returns to the bench after illness. He has five in six against Brentford, and Rodri could make his first appearance of the season for the Blues.
00:53Six points from their opening three games represents Brentford's best ever start to a Premier League season.
00:59Goalkeeper Mark Flecken will hope he isn't as busy today as he was against City in February, when he made nine first-half saves, the most since Opta Records began.
01:07The backline includes Ethan Tinnock, who scored in Brentford's 1-0 Premier League win against City 18 months ago.
01:12Sepp Van den Berg and Keane Lewis-Potter come into a back five, Kevin Shada and the injured Matthias Jensen drop out.
01:19That releases Vitani Jelland into his default setting of central midfield from left-back, joining regulars Mikel Damsgaard and Christian Norgaard.
01:26And Johan Wisse has been involved in seven goals in his last five Premier League appearances, and Brian Mbeumo has started the season scoring three times in three games.
01:35The bench is where we find Ben Mee, an FA Youth Cup winner with City who played for the first team once.
01:42Chelsea, Ipswich and West Ham have been dispatched with ease by the champions so far.
01:47Brentford are flying high after two wins from three, falling only to Liverpool.
01:51So we've already seen enough from both sides this term to suggest that today's offering should be one of quality.
01:57Yeah, it should be. That's how Brentford approach it, you know they're going to try and press early.
02:02Looking to attack as well with Keane Lewis-Potter, and a problem for Manchester City, and a goal!
02:09Inside 25 seconds. Remarkable from Brentford.
02:15The warning is clear at the start of the season and this match. Underestimate Brentford at your peril.
02:24John Stones, as he's just getting to grips early on in this game, but you've got to try and stop the cross initially.
02:30Sneaks in back post, and it's just that clearance between Edison Stones allows Whistler just with a simple header into the corner.
02:39The supporters can't believe it, the players can't. What a start for Brentford.
02:44The B's are loving life in the Premier League and lead the champions on their own patch.
02:51So much talk about one striker on the field of play today, but it is Johan Whistler.
02:58But it is Johan Whistler, in fine form himself, who grabs the opening goal.
03:05You started asking me about what could happen. I thought Brentford would start quickly.
03:10Very swiftly recovered.
03:15Here's another worry for the champions, it's Mpema who's in. Can he find a way through? Not on Rico Lewis' watch.
03:23With Whistler and Mpema, there's always a threat on the counter from Brentford, and here they go again.
03:28Edison coming, charging out, getting there in time. Only as far as Damsgaard, who looked up and thought about it.
03:38And swept away by Akanji.
03:42Into the mix it goes! Oh, and Edison bails Manchester City out.
03:47It was Nathan Collins who swung at it, and it was so close to 2-0.
03:59He is greelish now.
04:02A collective puff of the cheeks from Manchester City as they charge forward.
04:06Haaland waits, and Flecken, in the end, gathers.
04:09Kristoffer Eyer just getting out of the way in time.
04:13De Bruyne takes the low road for Gundogan.
04:16Nicely done between the two, and Mark Flecken had to make sure it was his ball,
04:20and indeed the offside flag is belatedly raised.
04:25Greelish.
04:28Looks for Kovacic.
04:31In turn finds Walker.
04:34Maybe thought about hitting it. It rolls Haaland's way!
04:37And you know what happens next.
04:41His insatiable appetite for goals
04:44is equaled by his frightening ability to score them.
04:50Initially the ball was switched out wide,
04:53but when it comes to Walker,
04:55there's a little bit of a collision where he gets tied,
04:58but he has no right from this position.
05:01Early in Haaland, we haven't seen much of him yet in the game,
05:04and this is why he just pops up,
05:06and he strikes it so clean into the ground,
05:09a little bit of a deflection, we know that,
05:11but extremely clinical, he knows where the goal is.
05:15Flecken diving to that right, but he's never going to get that one.
05:19Brilliant from Haaland.
05:23De Bruyne with a bit of room to create.
05:25Maybe to strike it!
05:29Well, maybe Flecken was comfortable it was just going wide.
05:33Manchester City once again not alive to the threat there,
05:36and then Pinnock made Ederson work.
05:40Brentford are committing bodies, going one for one in areas,
05:43and this is the space that City have been waiting for.
05:47Haaland just bumps his way past Pinnock,
05:50through on goal!
05:53And when that happens, there is never any doubt.
05:57It's goal-scoring on another level from the man of the moment,
06:01Erling Haaland.
06:03You asked me about Haaland at the start,
06:05and I said, when you have Ederson and you go tight,
06:08one for one, you've got to be sure,
06:10but look how he uses his body.
06:12Pinnock very strong, but he just waits,
06:14he knows he's going to bump his way through,
06:16and he does, and he does, and he does, and he does,
06:19and he does, and he does, and he does,
06:21and he does, and he does.
06:23Pinnock very strong, but he just waits,
06:25he knows he's going to bump into him,
06:27and once he gets to the other side of him,
06:29this is exceptional, that gives him the space,
06:31and he goes to take it early.
06:33Flecking away, takes the extra touch,
06:35it's wonderful forward play,
06:37he's got everything in the locker,
06:39then that late decision,
06:41after this touch here, exceptional little dink,
06:45that's how you do it.
06:47A brace for Haaland.
06:50Well, he is so good in front of goal,
06:54but he's so calm in front of goal,
06:57and that's what sets him apart from the rest.
07:00Look how they do it.
07:02Haaland opens it up for Jack Grealish,
07:04who looks for Gundogan,
07:06and it is swatted away by Norcard.
07:09Momentum building all the time here from the champions.
07:14Savino.
07:16We're going to have five minutes added on,
07:19we're into those now.
07:21Collins onto it here,
07:23just behind him Bermot, who was ready to pounce.
07:26Brentford still have it with Pinnock,
07:28and Jan Eltz, who just stood on the ball
07:31rather than striking it.
07:33Schader just on.
07:35Lewis Potter.
07:37Edison had to angle it away.
07:40Under a little bit of pressure.
07:42Now a Bermot,
07:45has support either side,
07:47and looks to Keane-Lewis Potter,
07:49who tried to return the favour for Kevin Sharder.
07:52And they weren't quite on the same page,
07:54much to the relief of Manchester City.
07:58Casual from de Bruyne, who will go again.
08:01Grealish, room to curl it.
08:04Fabulous from Flecken.
08:08Walker.
08:10Gundogan.
08:13Haaland!
08:16And Flecken ruins his moment.
08:20Walker.
08:22Why not?
08:24Why not indeed, because that was not far away.
08:30On from Akanji, lovely from Grealish,
08:32and Cavadio plays centre-forward all of a sudden.
08:37And has a cool head to pick out Savino.
08:41And Brentford again, indebted to Mark Flecken.
08:47Savino.
08:51Still going, and going.
08:56Well, they thought.
08:59Back for Rodri.
09:01And Grealish.
09:03On it goes for de Bruyne, and Haaland!
09:07And again!
09:10Nathan Collins in the way,
09:12and the post stopped it initially in any case.
09:16They are banging, quite literally, on the Brentford door.
09:20De Bruyne.
09:22Haaland.
09:23Flecken in the way again.
09:31And Bermo.
09:33Is there a sting in the tail here?
09:37Oh, and it's Jamal Young,
09:39who just drags it wide.
09:41That's one thing we've seen, it's not about personal things,
09:44it's about the team, and that's what comes first,
09:46and what Kevin de Bruyne, the leader, decided to do.
09:50Hi there, I'm Rebecca Lowe,
09:52studio host of NBC's coverage of the Premier League.
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