Erling Haaland scored again in the Premier League. This time, it was Manchester City’s 3-0 demolition of Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday. Perhaps the only surprising story was that the superstar striker only scored once. Jack Grealish opened the scoring inside the first minute of play. Haaland scored City’s second and Phil Foden finished off Wolves with a fine finish late in the game.
Haaland’s goal was his 11th in just seven Premier League games so far this season. In fact, he has scored in six of these seven games, including two separate hat-tricks. However, the Norwegian managed to contribute an assist in the only league game in which he did not score this campaign.
Pep Guardiola’s praise for Erling Haaland
Ahead of City’s clash with Wolves, manager Pep Guardiola suggested their striker will only get better. “He is an exceptional striker, I have said it many times,” Guardiola said. “But at the age that he is, and I think he has ambition, he wants to be better and I think he will be better.”
“The quality that he had before coming here, he has continued to do what he has done. We don’t add a lot of things.”
Premier League clubs will sigh in frustration if this is the case. City have already amassed four league titles in the last five seasons. Obviously all these trophies were won without Haaland. The prolific striker is making this all-star club even better.
Erling Haaland on his way to breaking the Premier League goalscoring record
Despite the Premier League season being only 18% complete so far, Haaland is already more than a third of the way to the modern record of 38 games in the league. Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah currently holds the modern record with 32 goals. Andy Cole and Alan Shearer scored 34 goals in one Premier League season; however, this was when the league was playing 42 games per campaign.
The all-time record for goals in the English top flight in one season belongs to Dixie Dean when she scored an unbelievable 60 goals in the 1927/28 campaign for Everton. However, there were 22 teams in the league back then and each team played 42 games.
Haaland is currently on course to score a staggering 59 goals in 38 Premier League games. Not only would this break the modern Premier League record of 38 games, it would come close to Dean’s incredible feat.
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