Erling Haaland has become the highest goalscorer in a 20-team Premier League season, matching Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah after Manchester City secured a comfortable 3-1 win over Leicester City on Saturday.
The Norwegian forward has been in blistering form since arriving from Borussia Dortmund last summer. He found the back of the net twice against the Foxes, first from the penalty spot before lobbing Leicester goalkeeper Daniel Iversen in a well-executed finish for the second.
It has now taken Haaland’s Premier League tally this season to 32 goals, equalling Salah’s record during the 2017-18 season when he had just arrived on Merseyside from Italian outfit AS Roma.
The 22-year-old can become the outright top scorer in beyond a 20-team Premier League season should he score a minimum of three more goals this term. That would take him above Andy Cole and the top-flight’s all-time top scorer Alan Shearer who both have 34 goals from the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons respectively.
32 – Erling Haaland has equalled the Premier League record for goals in a 38-game season (32), with only Andrew Cole in 1993-94 (34) and Alan Shearer in 1994-95 (34) netting more in any season overall. Hunting. pic.twitter.com/MCvrfoUuPU
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Haaland recently surpassed Salah and former Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy when he scored in City’s 3-0 whooping of Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-final first leg last week. It was his 45th goal of the season, making him the highest-scoring Premier League player in all competitions, one more than the aforementioned duo.
Now on 47 competitive goals, Haaland will be looking to get closer to the 50-goal mark when City travel to the Allianz Arena to take on Bayern in the Champions League quarter-final second leg on Wednesday.
