Erling Haaland grew to become the quickest participant to hitch the Premier League 100 objectives membership along with his seventeenth minute strike in Manchester Metropolis’s conflict with Fulham on Tuesday.
Haaland broke Alan Shearer’s longstanding report, scoring his one centesimal Premier League purpose in simply his 111th look — Shearer set the report in 1995 in his 124th match.
Metropolis’s opponents, Leeds, additionally signify a particular facet in Haaland’s private story. The Norway striker was born in Leeds throughout his dad’s three-year spell on the Yorkshire membership.
Haaland’s milestone on Saturday is simply the most recent Premier League report he has damaged since he joined Metropolis in July 2022.
Saturday’s strike meant he surpassed a bunch of Premier League legends within the race to 100 objectives, together with Thierry Henry (141 video games), Sergio Agüero (147 video games) and Liverpool rival Mohamed Salah (162 video games).
Haaland nonetheless has to go someway to interrupt the Premier League’s final goalscoring report, although. Shearer continues to be the league’s all-time prime scorer with 260 objectives.