unstoppable, Haaland sets an absolute season record with 35 goals

Erling Haaland became the top scorer in a Premier League season on Wednesday evening, all formats combined, by scoring his 35th goal in the Manchester City jersey against West Ham in a late match of the 28th day. In the 71st minute of the match, ideally launched by Jack Grealish, the Norwegian went to beat Lukasz Fabianski with a stung ball for the 2-0.

He erased shelves, from his first season under the colors of the Citizens, Andy Cole and Alan Shearer who had stopped at 34 goals with Newcastle in 1993-94 for the first and Blackburn the following season for the second. The elite of English football then had 22 teams, or 42 days. It has been reduced to 20 clubs and 38 days since the 1995-96 season. It took only 31 appearances for Haaland to set this new record, where his seniors had played 40 and 42 matches respectively.

51 goals since the start of the year!

The Norwegian superstar in all competitions is on 51 goals since the start of the 2022-23 fiscal year. You have to go back to 1966-67, long before the creation of the Premier League, to find a more prolific scorer than him in a season in the top flight, it was the Welshman Ron Davies with Southampton (37 goals).

But the all-time top-flight record of any era should not be in jeopardy, as it belongs to Dixie Dean, an Everton player who found the net 60 times in 42 days in 1926/27, before to be crowned champion.