The English championship has a new top scorer and he has a first and last name: Erling Haaland, the Norwegian who is only 22 years old, and even though he is still so young, he never tires of breaking records.
New record for top goalscorer in a Premier League edition
The young Norwegian Erling Haaland, has stood out in the current Premier League season and added another record to his brilliant season. He scored a goal from the penalty spot against Fulham to help Manchester City win 2-1 on Sunday. With that, Haaland equaled Andy Cole and Alan Shearer as top scorers in a single edition of the English championship.
However, the difference and advantage is precisely in the number of games that each one needed to break that record. While Andy and Alan needed 40 more games, Haaland only needed 30 games.
With that, he reaches his 50th goal of the season in 44 clashes since arriving at Manchester City in the middle of last year, an incredible average of 1.13 goals per game.
Records Haaland achieved:
Fastest to reach 20 Premier League goals (14 games)
Fastest to reach 30 Premier League goals (27 games)
Fastest to reach 20 Champions League goals (14 games)
Most goals for City in a season (45)
Most goals by an English team in the Premier League era (45)
Records Haaland can still achieve:
Most goals by an English team in the Champions League: 12 by Van Nistelrooy (Haaland has 11)
Most goals in a Champions League: 17 by Cristiano Ronaldo (Haaland has 11)
Most goals in a Champions League knockout: 10 by Cristiano Ronaldo and Benzema (Haaland has six)
Most goals in a European season: Messi’s 73 (Haaland has 45)
Most goals in a Premier League season: 60 by Dixie Dean (Haaland has 30)
With the Citizens victory, the Premier League has a new leader.
With the conquest of 76 points, Manchester City overtakes rival Arsenal. Although it can still be beaten by Arsenal, which has 75 points, the team has two games in arrears to make up for it and can secure the lead with these games. City beat Arsenal head-to-head in the last round.
Arsenal’s next clash is next Tuesday (2nd), against Chelsea and as much as the Blues are not in a good moment, the duel may not be so easy for the Gunners and it depends on the good result to return to the lead .