Norwegian forward sets another milestone
On the last day of summer 2024 Manchester City in away match of the third round of the Premier League beat West Ham to secure third league win. A hat-trick brought the Citizens another three points Erling Haalandwho scored three goals in the second match in a row.
The Norwegian forward set a new record in the match against West Ham, becoming the first player in Premier League history to score seven goals in his first three matches. Holland also brought his tally of goals for Man City in the English Premier League to 70. This The forward needed 69 matches.
Erling seems to be a real football cyborg. Since his debut in the Premier League, Salah, for example, has scored 39 goals, Watkins – 34, Foden – 30, Solanke – 25.
Erling Haaland is not human. 🤖
He has now scored 70 goals in 69 Premier League games for Man City, including eight hat-tricks.
The cyborg has set the record for the most goals in a single season in the competition’s history, won back-to-back Golden Boots, scored back-to-back… pic.twitter.com/dnaIWAJTwT
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In just over two years at Manchester City, Haaland has scored 97 goals and made 14 assists in 102 matches for the club – an average of 1.09 assists per match. If we take the number of minutes played, the Norwegian needs 85 minutes to score a goal, and 74 minutes to make an assist. Haaland has scored five times in a match, four times once, and three times eight times.
In total, as part of the last two clubs – Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City – the Norwegian scored 183 goals and gave 37 assists in 191 matches. On average, 0.95 goals and 1.15 assists per match. If we take the number of minutes played, the Norwegian spent 84.4 minutes on a goal, 74 on an assist, and 65.7 on an assist.
Source: Sportarena
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