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Paris: Erling Haaland continued his remarkable start to life at Manchester City with a brace of goals, helping the English side to a third win from three Group G matches in the UEFA Champions League. Haaland scored with his first touch as City cruised to another thumping home win, beating FC Copenhagen 5-0 at the City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester on Wednesday night. Haaland buried a Joao Cancelo pass in the 7th minute before tapping in a second in the 32nd min to move to 28 goals in just 22 Champions League appearances. He is now level with Ryan Giggs on 28 UEFA Champions League goals. David Khocholava turned in an own goal, Riyad Mahrez scored a penalty after Haaland was withdrawn at the break and Juli�n Alvarez tapped in a fifth after a great run from Jack Grealish. Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was elated with the way his team played and praised Alvarez for stepping in when Haaland was withdrawn. "Against teams like Copenhagen, you need players in the box. This season we have Haaland, Alvarez, these kinds of weapons. All of us are incredibly happy with the goal (Alvarez) scored. He's a little bit behind Haaland with the highlights, that's normal, but he's helped us a lot." Though Copenhagen goalkeeper Kamil Grabara excelled throughout, making 12 saves, his side was just outclassed. Neestrup, Copenhagen coach said his team was simply overpowered. Speaking to the club's official website, he said, "It's never fun to lose 5-0, and we went in there to create a little or big miracle we would have needed to get a point. But we simply were overpowered as 100 other teams have experienced against City." Chelsea win 3-0 It was a good night for the English sides as Chelsea romped to a 3-0 win against Italian club AC Mila ...