Haaland overtakes Shearer’s goalscoring record

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Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has overtaken Newcastle and Blackburn legend Alan Shearer’s record to become the fastest player to reach 75 Premier League goals.

    The Norwegian international gave his side an early lead in ยูฟ่าเบท the 23rd minute against Brighton, but they conceded twice through Joao Pedro and Matt O’Reilly as they suffered a 2-1 defeat on Saturday.

    However, Haaland also has a personal record from the goal in this game. Which is the 75th goal score in the Premier League from playing only 77 games. Which is consider the fastest in history. Overtaking Shearer who took 93 games to score 75 goals. 

    Meanwhile, top strikers Harry Kane took 115 games, Ruud van Nistelrooy 116 games, Mohamed Salah 117 games and Sergio Aguero 118 games.

Indeed, Haaland has now found the net at 19 of the 21 stadiums he has played at in the Premier League, only failing to do so against Liverpool at Anfield (two games) and Brentford at the Gtech Community Stadium (one game).

Haaland’s efforts up front against Brighton on Saturday were ultimately not enough for City to come out on top, though, and the striker has now suffered defeat in a Premier League match in which he scored a goal for the very first time, having won 40 and drawn six of the previous 46 he had scored in.

Man City, who remain second in the Premier League table. He will hope that Haaland is both fit and back to his prolific best. When they welcome Tottenham Hotspur to the Etihad Stadium for their first Premier League game after the international break in November 23.