Man City vs Ipswich Town live: Erling Haaland goal gives hosts half-time lead in Premier League. but goalkeeper Walton 'should definitely have done better'
Erling Haaland scored his fifth goal in three Premier League meetings with Ipswich Town to restore Manchester City's lead over the visitors at half-time at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. Phil Foden fired in from Jeremy Doku's cross to put City on course to extend their perfect start to the league season to seven matches, but Daizen Maeda coolly slotted in to draw Ipswich level as part of a slick counter-attack.
Mateo Kovacic then scooped in a delivery for Haaland to power a header past Christian Walton, hitting the grounded goalkeeper on its way in. Manchester City vs Ipswich: Walton blamed for goal Former Ireland forward Clinton Morrison felt Walton, who beat away an early Nico O'Reilly drive, could have stopped Haaland's goal.
"Walton should most definitely have done better," Morrison told Sky Sports. "He gets a hand to it and knocks it in with his other hand.
He really should be saving that." The Cityzens suffered their first defeat of the season in all competitions with a 4-2 home loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Wednesday. Ipswich began on nine points and have won their last two matches, beating Crystal Palace 3-2 away and prevailing 2-1 at home to Fulham last Saturday.
Premier League, Round 7 Manchester City MCI Live 2-1 46' Ipswich IPS Phil Foden 19' Erling Haaland 34' Daizen Maeda 21' Man City confirmed starting team vs Ipswich Town City made four changes from their defeat at Liverpool last Sunday, introducing Doku, Ayyoub Bouaddi, Mateo Kovacic and Foden. Elliot Anderson, Enzo Fernandez, Antoine Semenyo and Rayan Cherki moved to the bench.
Manchester City: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Marc Guehi, Nico O'Reilly, Ayyoub Bouaddi, Mateo Kovacic, Ndiaye, Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland Substitutes: Geronimo Rulli, Anderson, Rayan Cherki, Fernandez, Rayan Ait-Nouri, Josko Gvardiol, Allan, Antoine Semenyo, Abdukodir Khusanov Ipswich full line up vs Manchester City Ipswich made two alterations from their win over Fulham, replacing Sasa Lukic and Jaden Philogene with Jacob Greaves and Exequiel Palacios. Abdul Fatawu returned from suspension on the bench.
Ipswich Town: Christian Walton, Ouattara, Axel Disasi, Dara O'Shea, Jacob Greaves, Leif Davis, Florentino Luis, Daizen Maeda, Julio Enciso, Exequiel Palacios, Emersonn Substitutes: Kjell Scherpen, Darnell Furlong, Cedric Kipre, Azor Matusiwa, Abdul Fatawu, Zian Flemming, Jaden Philogene, Chuba Akpom, Jack Clarke Where to watch Man City vs Ipswich: TV channel, live online stream Kick-off on Saturday was at 15:00 BST (10:00 ET / 07:00 PT). This match is not being shown live in the UK.
Man City vs Ipswich Premier League stats, form City most recently faced Ipswich during the 2024/25 Premier League season, winning both games by an aggregate score of 10-1 (4-1 at home, 6-0 away) They are unbeaten in 31 Premier League games against promoted sides (W28 D3) since losing 2-1 at home to Leeds in April 2021 The Cityzens have kept a clean sheet in 10 of their last 12 such games. At the Etihad Stadium, they have won all 16 games since that defeat to Leeds and scored 53 goals along the way Only once in City's league history have they won their first seven from the start of a league campaign, in the second tier in 1897/98 Erling Haaland has four goals in two Premier League games against Ipswich Town and has scored 20 in 21 appearances against newly-promoted sides Ipswich have won three of their six Premier League games so far this season (L3), which is one fewer than they did in the whole of 2024/25 (W4 D10 L24) Town manager Gary O'Neil's only previous away Premier League game against Man City was a 5-1 defeat with Wolves in May 2024 O'Neil's only game against Maresca was also a four-goal defeat - Chelsea won 6-2 at Wolves in August 2024 In 33 away games against Man City in all competitions, Ipswich's only clean sheet came through goalkeeper Paul Cooper in a 1-0 win at Maine Road in March 1983 Before the start of the latest round of fixtures, Bournemouth, Newcastle and Chelsea (13 each) were the only teams to have conceded more in this season's division than Ipswich (12) UEFA Champions League Manchester City MCI L2 - 4 2026-10-14 Paris Saint Germain PSG Premier League Liverpool LIV W0 - 3 2026-10-11 Manchester City MCI Premier League Manchester City MCI W5 - 3 2026-09-20 Sunderland SUN League Cup Manchester City MCI W5 - 0 2026-09-17 Norwich NOR Premier League Manchester United MUN W0 - 1 2026-09-13 Manchester City MCI Premier League Ipswich IPS W2 - 1 2026-10-10 Fulham FUL Premier League Everton EVE L1 - 0 2026-09-19 Ipswich IPS League Cup Ipswich IPS L2 - 4 2026-09-15 Arsenal ARS Premier League Crystal Palace CRY W2 - 3 2026-09-12 Ipswich IPS Premier League Ipswich IPS L0 - 2 2026-09-04 Liverpool LIV Latest