EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS | MAN CITY 4-1 IPSWICH TOWN | Haaland hat-trick seals win & Gundogan returns!

All eyes are very much on one man and he's not even on the pitch. He's in the dugout at the side and of course I'm referring to Ilkay Gundogan. A shock move back to the Etihad Stadium, complete just a matter of a few hours ago and the reality is that he is very much back where he belongs. Four titles in a row, that was proof that Sidsi are formidable. Five, well this bunch are capable of anything. Sidi make progress down the left with Guardiola across the face of the goal. Haaland almost slid in and Muric got to the ball. Sidi say that might be a penalty. Haaland is saying it has to be a penalty, he felt he was fouled. The referee didn't get any real view of it, we're just looking at the replay now and Haaland is convinced he should be given a penalty. I don't think he's going to get one though, Miki. No, I think the defender's got a little bit of his shirt. It's fantastic goalkeeping from Abo Muric to start with, it's a great ball in. Haaland into the final third they go, Doku won't get to it. It's Rich Winnick back and they'll clear it through Morsi and now they lose the ball in midfield and Kovacic guides it back to Diaz on halfway. Sidi with Kanji and Diaz and Guardiola and Lewis as a nominal back four. De Bruyne comes forward, try to play it back to Guardiola, it's cleared up to Omari Hutchinson. Hutchinson drives Ipswich forward, takes it into city territory, in the middle third Ipswich Town. And they're playing it into the gap and the offside flag is down and it's a chance for Smodic and it's deflected in and Ipswich score first. Sami Smodic, his first ever Premier League start and he played it under the body of Ederson and it hit his back and rolled over the line and Ipswich Town stunningly have hit the front at the Etihad Stadium, it's Ipswich 1 City 0. Ederson appeared to have saved it but it bounced off his underside and had enough energy to creep over the line. Well, I don't think it'll change the tactics of the game which were already pre-set but that is a real shock to the system, remember the Blues with a clean sheet last weekend away at Chelsea, no clean sheet today. Bernardo Silva loses out, Sidi with it back with a Kanji, a Kanji now on to Savino, Savino going down the right side, tries to get to the byline, oh, he's brought down! Is it in, is it outside, is it a penalty? It is a penalty, no it's a goal kick, I thought he'd given the penalty and he's been asked to go to the monitor. There's enough contact there for me to say it's a penalty. Yeah, he's gonna have to give it, yeah he is, yeah, it was a penalty all day long. The Blues are now looking for an equaliser through Erling Haaland, Erling Haaland has this record of having scored against every single Premier League opponent he's faced, well he'll want to extend that record today by scoring against Ipswich. Haaland now steps up and scores easily and City were behind for only a matter of moments. Yeah, normal service resumed at the Etihad now and I think once the referee had given a penalty there was almost no doubt that Haaland were going to dispatch it, it's what we'd expect from City to come straight back after going one behind. We thought it'd be an entertaining match, it's going to be. Oh and Savino has been, oh and it's a goal! Savino has just tackled Muric on the edge of the box, Muric had it under control, he tried to take on Savino, Savino dispossessed him and De Bruyne taps it in into an unguarded net. Great closing down from Savino, something they'll have identified I'm sure in the pre-match build-up, he's the one who does the damage and he's been influential in both goals and yeah, five minutes after going behind they're influential now. Absolutely, well he doesn't get an assist for the first goal Savino because he was brought down but he will get an assist for that one, tucked in by Kevin De Bruyne and now they're coming forward again and Haaland's through the middle and he's got beyond Muric! 2-1, 3-1, 2-1 one minute, 3-1 the next. Erling Haaland's on another hat-trick and Ipswich Town are absolutely in a spin, a wonderful, wonderful ball over the top, Haaland on the end, over the top of the advancing goalkeeper and City suddenly have a two-goal advantage. Hey, welcome to the Premier League, Ipswich, isn't it? You know the fans, the Tractor boys, they were euphoric sort of six or seven minutes ago, been 1-0 in front and it soon turned around and now they're two goals behind them, it's a fantastic finish and it's a great goal from City. City were one down, they now lead 3-1. On it goes to Gvardiol and now Diaz in central midfield, Diaz plays it out wide to Doku, Doku down the left wing but plenty of work to do in front of him so he plays it back to Gvardiol and on it goes to Akanji, Akanji into Savino, Savino can go both ways, that's the danger for a defender, plays it back to Akanji, Savino again, he knows he can go outside, he knows he can go inside, he does do! Brilliant and then he lost it just as he was thinking about shooting, a feeling for Leif Davies, what an afternoon he's got ahead of him, I tell you what, he is a different player altogether, isn't he? There's a number of players in the Ipswich townside who made their Premier League debuts last weekend having never played in the top division, Leif Davies is one of the few exceptions having played for Leeds but the vast majority of this 11 on show today are playing their first ever Premier League away game and what a place to do it, home of the defending champions and as Nicky alluded to earlier they stung the champions by scoring first, Doku, oh Lewis will score, oh he's hit the bar, I can't believe he's missed it, it just suddenly came to him in the area, well he had to score, he could have mishit that, it was in the back of the net, he hit it too well if that makes any sense, Lewis, oh he should have made it 4-1, the ball broke to him by the penalty spot, Ipswich all over the place and he smacked it goal bound but off the underside of the crossbar, not easier to score Nicky. He's absolutely smashed it and he's hit the underside of the crossbar where really it just needed a little clip in the middle of the goal. Looking up at the heavens he couldn't believe it, it was a gift and City looking for a fourth before we even reached the half hour mark, Doku down the left hand side, on one side you've got Savino with their tricks and the dynamic pace from the standing start, on the other you've got Doku, much the same, here's De Bruyne, tries it from range, oh he's got the underside of the bar as well, De Bruyne with a dipping shot, Juric all he could do was watch it, it hit the underside of the bar, bounced on the line and went away. Yeah it's all of 28-30 yards out, the amount of dip has gone, it's phenomenal, he's almost been up on the ball to create the dip, Juric has stood there, didn't move and it's hit the underside of the crossbar. Oh Juric can't believe he's missed that one. City down the right with the inside to Aken, back to De Bruyne, De Bruyne in a wide right position and it goes to Bernardo Silva and that's into the side netting or is it a corner? It is, it's a corner, definitely hit the side netting, I just wondered if it was a mishit cross but it wasn't. Savino will whip it in left footed, can't time it from here but City win it back, De Bruyne picks it up on the edge of the area and Haaland brilliant save, that is a stunning save from Juric, Haaland header, point blank range and now prepare for one of the biggest roars that you will hear for a player coming on as a substitute, it is the second coming of Ilkay Gundogan, just listen to the noise. Welcome home Ilkay. Creeps forward, plays it across to De Bruyne, wide on the right side, back it goes to Bernardo Silva, Bernardo Silva into Gundogan, back to Bernardo Silva again, wider to De Bruyne, De Bruyne into Lewis, can't get to it, Lewis then wins the second ball, Ipswich lose it, Haaland's got it, hits the shot, into the net, Erling Haaland hat-trick. Well it was probably a really awkward position from which to shoot, he must have been about 22 metres from goal and he slid it off the inside of his instep and there is a huge ovation, it has been a pretty good afternoon all things considered, a victory, a hat-trick for Erling Haaland and of course Ilkay Gundogan came on for a cameo in the second half as well, but the final score on the opening home game of the 24-25 season for the Blues, they beat newly promoted Ipswich Town by four goals to one.