Erling Haaland’s formidable debut within the Premier League hit new heights on Wednesday after the Norwegian behemoth shattered Alan Shearer’s 28-year file together with his thirty fifth purpose of the season.
Discovering the again of the online in Manchester City’s 3-0 win in opposition to West Ham, the striker’s team-mates lined as much as give him a guard of honour on the Etihad in opposition to the backdrop of a standing ovation from supporters, all solely conscious they have been seeing one thing distinctive.
To say Haaland has a style for rewriting the historical past books isn’t any understatement: his bombastic first season in England has seen him break two information previous to his newest.
The 22-year-old slipped 5 previous luckless RB Leipzig goalkeeper Janis Blaswich in underneath an hour through the second-leg of the 2 sides’ Champions League round-of-16 run-in that (after all) noticed the Austrian aspect knocked out as Metropolis’s treble possibilities started to blossom on a March night on the Etihad.
Haaland is the third individual in historical past to attain the feat – solely Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano have reached that complete in Europe’s most prestigious competitors.
Erling Haaland’s thirty fifth purpose of the season in opposition to West Ham on Wednesday noticed him break Alan Shearer’s 28-year file – and in a marketing campaign with 38, slightly than 42, Premier League video games
The Norwegian was handled to a guard of honour by his team-mates and a standing ovation
Alan Shearer (left) and Andrew Cole (proper) beforehand held the file for probably the most targets in a Premier League season – earlier than Haaland reached the astonishing feat on Wednesday night
Earlier that night, he grew to become the membership’s highest goalscorer in a single season, breaking the 94-year file set by Tommy Johnson together with his thirty ninth purpose of the season on Wednesday.
However with eight matches left this season – and probably 9 in the event that they attain the Champions League closing – Mail Sport assesses which different information Haaland might nonetheless break within the 2022-23 marketing campaign.
Most Champions League targets in a single season (17)
As Metropolis set their sights on chasing a historic treble – which Haaland freely admits he would commerce his Premier League purpose haul to realize – all eyes have turned to the competitors’s present single-season file.
It was set by Cristiano Ronaldo through the 2013-14 marketing campaign, the place the Portuguese star scored 17 targets throughout their profitable European run.
He scored a penalty through the closing in opposition to rivals Atletico Madrid, the place Los Blancos finally gained the match 4-1 after extra-time.
Haaland presently has 12 within the competitors and stands an opportunity at levelling – and even breaking – Ronaldo’s file.
However Haaland’s hopes depend upon getting a quantity previous their opponents within the semi-final.
Ought to the Premier League outfit progress, the Norway worldwide can have simply three matches to search out the again of the online 5 occasions.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored 17 targets through the Champions League marketing campaign in 2013-14
A charmed evening on the Etihad noticed Erling Haaland put an unbelievable 5 targets previous RB Leipzig
The goal-machine scored all 5 targets in an hour earlier than being subbed off within the 63rd minute
Most hat-tricks in a Premier League season (5)
The Norwegian already has 4 Premier League hat-tricks to his identify since finishing his £51million transfer to the Etihad in the summertime.
He is managed to bag three targets in outings in opposition to Crystal Palace, Nottingham Forest, Manchester United and Wolves this season, placing him effectively inside touching distance of the single-season file.
That is one other set by Alan Shearer, within the 1995-96 marketing campaign the place the English talisman scored 5 hat-tricks.
With 4 hat-tricks scored to date, this file may very well be crushed in Haaland’s final 5 video games
The 22-year-old star will face Leeds, Everton, Chelsea, Brighton and Brentford this month
Tottenham’s Harry Kane has come the closest to matching Shearer’s tally, after his blistering marketing campaign in 2016-17, the place he scored 4 hat-tricks, earlier than Haaland’s spectacular season this yr.
The Man Metropolis star wants yet another hat-trick to degree Shearer’s file and with video games in opposition to Southampton, Leeds and Everton nonetheless to come back, Haaland could effectively overtake the Newcastle legend.
Most targets in an English membership’s top-flight season (63)
He could not… might he?
The present file for probably the most targets in a single-season throughout all competitions within the English top-flight stands at 63 targets and is held by Everton legend Dixie Dean.
Dean wrote his identify into soccer historical past after reaching the staggering tally within the 1927-28 season.
As a way to match the unbelievable file, Haaland must rating 12 targets within the eight or 9 matches for Metropolis.
Everton legend Dixie Dean holds the file for probably the most targets in an English top-flight season
The file seemed nigh-on unimaginable to interrupt in March, however now? Virtually nothing needs to be dominated out.
And one he cannot…
Dean’s mammoth achievement had an fascinating quirk: solely three of the targets scored by the Everton ahead got here within the FA Cup, and out of doors the English First Division
That makes the participant’s league file a whopping 60 targets in solely 39 video games.
Haaland is a way off from breaking that – however there is no hurt in setting a goal for subsequent season.
