This won’t be breaking information for anybody, however Manchester Metropolis striker Erling Haaland is actually fairly good at his day job, having scored targets at a frankly ridiculous price since becoming a member of the membership in 2022.
The Norway worldwide has made it his enterprise to ship data tumbling ever since he arrived within the Premier League. Going into Tuesday’s match at Fulham, the 25-year-old had already scored 143 targets in simply 164 video games in all competitions for Metropolis since becoming a member of them in 2022.
Having already develop into the quickest man to succeed in 50 targets within the competitors, taking simply 48 video games to take action and beating the earlier long-standing file by 17 video games, Haaland has continued in the identical prolific vein on his option to scoring a lightning-fast century.
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With a objective at Craven Cottage within the seventeenth minute, the outstanding Metropolis striker reached 100 targets within the Premier League faster than some other participant on file, taking simply 111 video games to succeed in triple digits. He has as soon as once more completely obliterated the earlier file, which had been held by Premier League icon (and all-time high objective scorer) Alan Shearer for 3 many years.
Haaland is now sitting fairly on the summit of the highest 10 quickest Premier League centurions.
10. Michael Owen and Andy Cole (100 targets in 185 video games)
With 337 Premier League targets between them, each Owen and Cole are acknowledged for his or her formidable ending and goal-scoring acumen, however sadly each had been virtually leisurely of their pursuit of their respective centuries — a minimum of compared to Haaland’s relentless productiveness. Cole was additionally the previous holder of the 50-goal file which stood at 65 video games till Haaland got here alongside and shattered it with a strike on his forty eighth league look, opening the scoring in opposition to Liverpool in November 2023.
9. Les Ferdinand (178 video games)
A recent and teammate of Shearer at Newcastle United through the mid-Nineteen Nineties, Ferdinand scored 149 targets within the Premier League throughout extremely profitable stints with Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle and Tottenham Hotspur and earlier than chipping in with a number of extra targets throughout later spells at West Ham United, Leicester Metropolis and Bolton Wanderers, for whom he scored as soon as through the closing dozen top-flight video games of his profession.
8. Robbie Fowler (175 video games)
Liverpool legend Fowler scored 163 Premier League targets general with the primary 120 coming throughout his first and most fondly-remembered nine-year stint at Anfield. His one hundredth top-flight objective got here for the Reds in opposition to Southampton in 1999-00, although the season proved to be a massively irritating one for Fowler, who mustered a paltry three targets in 14 league video games (and simply seven begins) resulting from protracted damage points.
7. Ian Wright (173 video games)
After hitting 24 targets in 30 throughout his debut season for the membership within the outdated First Division, Wright carried over his kind into the newly-formed Premier League — scoring 104 targets in his subsequent 191 league appearances for Arsenal. The ever-popular striker scored his one hundredth as a part of a hat trick in opposition to Bolton at Highbury in September 1997, a three-goal haul that’s maybe higher remembered for Wright passing Cliff Bastin’s tally to develop into the Gunners’ all-time high objective scorer within the course of. In his pleasure on the day, he revealed his “179” undershirt to have a good time, albeit by accident unfurling it a objective early, having solely matched Bastin’s file fairly than damaged it.
Salah started his Premier League profession with a short and largely unremarkable 18-month stint at Chelsea the place he netted simply two targets in 13 league video games. After all, it wasn’t till he returned to England with Liverpool in 2017-18 that his goal-scoring output immediately went stratospheric. Certainly, the Egypt ahead got here near reaching his Premier League century inside 4 seasons at Anfield, however alas ended 2020-21 having come agonizingly shut with 97 targets to his title.
Fortunately, it took Salah simply 4 video games of the next season to rattle away one other three targets, pushing his Premier League tally into three figures with a decisive strike within the Reds’ 3-0 victory over Leeds United at Elland Highway in September 2021. At present depend, the four-time Golden Boot winner has amassed 190 Premier League targets in 311 video games general, placing him fourth on the all-time high goal-scorer record.
5. Thierry Henry (160 video games)
A stuttering begin to life within the Premier League noticed Henry rating simply as soon as in his first 12 league outings for Arsenal in 1999-00 with some questioning the knowledge of Arsène Wenger’s name to half with £11 million to safe his signing. That was till a brace in opposition to Derby County in late November noticed the floodgates nicely and really open.
The elegant France ahead scored 17 league targets in each of his first two seasons at Highbury after which one other 24 targets in every of his subsequent two campaigns, that means — maybe fittingly — that his one hundredth Premier League strike for the Gunners got here throughout their famed “Invincibles” season of 2003-04 throughout which they received the title with out succumbing to a single defeat en route, firmly cementing Henry’s stance as one of many best gamers to ever grace the English high flight.
4. Sergio Agüero (147 video games)
Agüero began as he supposed to go on at Manchester Metropolis by shortly stockpiling eight targets in his first 5 league video games for the membership following his arrival from Atlético Madrid forward of the 2011-12 season.
Certainly, the diminutive Argentine striker’s targets had been an important a part of Metropolis’s fast progress beneath Abu Dhabi possession, which just about immediately propelled them right into a courageous new period of home dominance, kicking off with a landmark Premier League title triumph in Agüero’s debut season which was dramatically clinched in stoppage time by the person himself.
Agüero rustled up his Premier League century in simply 147 video games, which was then the second-quickest 100-goal glut on file (behind Shearer) — the essential one hundredth being a header in opposition to Newcastle in the previous few weeks of the 2015-16 marketing campaign.
After taking 90 video games to attain his first 50 targets within the Premier League (42 extra video games than it took Haaland), Kane actually upped the ante from the 2014-15 season onward by unleashing a plentiful stream of targets that hasn’t proven any indicators of operating dry to at the present time. Certainly, it subsequently took the England striker simply 51 video games to attain his second half-century of Premier League targets together with his one hundredth coming from the penalty spot for Tottenham in a 2-2 draw in opposition to Liverpool in April 2020.
He may be plying his commerce with related gusto for Bayern Munich today, however Kane stays certainly one of solely three gamers to attain greater than 200 targets within the Premier League, and his operating tally of 213 targets means he’s second solely to Shearer within the all-time scoring charts.
2. Alan Shearer (124 video games)
One of many Premier League’s most famous and prolific marksmen, Shearer received the title with Blackburn Rovers in 1994-95 and broke new floor by passing the 30-goal mark in three consecutive league seasons. Because of this, his league century got here as early as December 1995 with a objective in Rovers’ 2-1 victory over Tottenham taking him into triple figures.
He scored 12 extra targets for Rovers earlier than leaving forward of the 1996-97 season to signal for Newcastle in what was a then-world file £15 million switch. Shearer proceeded to rattle away one other 148 league targets in 303 video games for his boyhood membership on his option to changing into the undisputed highest objective scorer in Premier League historical past, a formidable file he has held (and by no means actually regarded like relinquishing) since 2006.
1. Erling Haaland (111 video games)
As unlikely because it as soon as appeared that Shearer’s Premier League goal-scoring data would ever be challenged, Haaland is demonstrating that he may nicely be the extremely gifted striker to do exactly that.
The velocity of Shearer’s 100-goal file stood untouched for 30 years till Haaland arrived and blew it out of the water, taking 13 fewer video games to succeed in the identical tally within the competitors. It already seems probably that he’ll land a 3rd Premier League Golden Boot in his fourth season in English soccer.
After all, Haaland nonetheless has some option to go to overhaul Shearer within the general goal-scoring stakes, with the latter amassing an as-yet-unparalleled 260 targets within the high flight for Blackburn and Newcastle between 1992 and 2006. There are additionally 33 gamers with extra Premier League targets than Haaland (a number of of whom seem on this record) who he must muscle previous on his option to the highest of the tree.
Nonetheless, with the Norway worldwide at present dismantling Premier League defenses at a price of 0.9 targets per league recreation since his transfer to Metropolis in the summertime of 2022, maybe we cannot have to attend too lengthy till there is a new high canine to cope with.
