Erling Haaland on course to smash Premier League Golden Boot record

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Erling Haaland scored his twenty sixth Premier League objective of the season in Manchester Metropolis’s 3-1 victory over title rivals Arsenal on Wednesday.

The prolific Norwegian reached the milestone in simply 22 appearances, that means he’s averaging 1.18 objectives per sport and 1.32 objectives per 90 minutes in 2022-23.

With 17 objectives to his identify, Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane finds himself second on the Golden Boot leaderboard, whereas Brentford’s Ivan Toney (14), Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford (12) and Fulham’s Aleksandar Mitrovic (11) spherical out the highest 5.

Nevertheless, Haaland is in a league of his personal in the case of scoring objectives, and the 22-year-old is effectively on his strategy to breaking the report for essentially the most objectives scored in a single Premier League season.

Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer at the moment maintain the report, having netted 34 objectives in 1993-94 and 1994-95, respectively, though each males achieved that feat throughout a 42-game season.

Relating to the current-day 38-game season, Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah holds the report, having scored 32 objectives in 36 appearances in the course of the 2017-18 marketing campaign.

Provided that Man Metropolis nonetheless have 15 league video games left this time period, Haaland has loads of time to surpass Salah’s tally earlier than setting his sights on Cole and Shearer’s report.

Remarkably, Haaland has already scored extra objectives than 24 of the earlier 38 Premier League Golden Boot winners, whereas he has already matched the tallies of Robin van Persie (2012-13) and Sergio Aguero (2014-15).

It’s value noting that no participant has damaged the one-goal-per-game mark within the historical past of the Premier League. Harry Kane got here shut in 2016-17 when he scored 29 objectives in 30 video games (0.97), whereas Luis Suarez netted 31 objectives in 33 video games again in 2013-14 (0.94).

That stated, if Haaland continued to attain at his present charge, he would end the marketing campaign with 44.84 objectives, making him essentially the most prolific Premier League Golden Boot winner of all time.

Haaland has bagged 4 hat-tricks this season, along with three braces, whereas his tally throughout all competitions stands at 32 objectives in 30 appearances.

The deadly marksman has already damaged numerous data this time period, together with the quickest participant to achieve 10, 20 and 25 Premier League objectives, and he seems destined to interrupt many extra earlier than the marketing campaign ends.

If he carries on the best way he’s going, there isn’t a denying that Haaland will break the report for essentially the most objectives scored in a single Premier League season.