Erling Haaland

Manchester City's Norwegian striker can't stop scoring and his net-busting skills could see a host of records fall, including top Premier League scorer.

The record for Champions League goals stands at a remarkable 140 set by Cristiano Ronaldo in his spells at Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus. Even so, the Norwegian goal machine would likely need at least eight, nine or more seasons at the top of his game in the Champions League to trouble Ronaldo’s efforts. The closest was Tom Waring of Aston Villa who slotted home 49 goals in the 1930-31 season. He’d need a record-breaking 43 goals per season to do it in six. Haaland could well be on course to break this record this season. But at his current scoring rate Haaland would need considerably less than a 100 games to get to the 100 goal mark. Just for fun - one quirky hat-trick record in the Premier League is scoring consecutive hat-tricks in two different seasons. For a 42-game season the record is held by Shearer and Andy Cole, who both hit that number in 93-94 with Newcastle and 94-95 with Blackburn respectively. Haaland now has 28 games in 22 appearances, from his time at Salzburg, Dortmund and now City. The 22 year old striker (born 21 July 2000, in Leeds, UK) has already scored 19 goals in 12 appearances for Man City, and in doing so has set a number of records. This is another record held by Alan Shearer, who scored 260 goals over his 441 game career. (That’s about the same in dollars).

Erling Haaland once again found the back of the net as Manchester City beat Southampton 4-0 at the Etihad Stadium.

Haaland, still looking to get in on the action, then shot just wide before unexpectedly failing to make contact with a De Bruyne ball across the six-yard line. Hasenhuttl's side have now lost four games in succession and the Austrian may do well to survive in his job much longer. That was a let-off for Southampton but their luck did not last much longer as Cancelo charged through their defence to open the scoring with a thunderous shot.

Manchester City thumped Southampton 4-0 with Erling Haaland at the centre of so much that was good once again.

His teeing up of Foden for the second means that he now has more Premier League assists than any other City player - overtaking David Silva - and is up to fifth in the overall league. Guardiola won't care who gets the goals if the City striker can bring the best out of his teammates, and the signs are already there that he is. But it turns out even Sod's Law does not apply to him as he banged in his 20th of the season after more excellent work from Cancelo and De Bruyne. After another ten minutes Foden had doubled the lead with a cute chip as Kevin De Bruyne found him in the box, and a fixture that had looked tricky had been all but won. Those missed chances may have rattled City in previous seasons, but with a goalscoring phenomenon at the head of this team there is now much less need to panic. Except as he wheeled away in celebration, the ball instead rebounded off the inside of the post and careered back past the other post to meet the striker at the touchline.

Erling Haaland scored yet again as Manchester City piled on the pressure for Southampton manager Raplh Hasenhuttl with a 4-0 win at the Etihad Stadium.

Haaland, still looking to get in on the action, then shot just wide before unexpectedly failing to make contact with a De Bruyne ball across the six-yard line. Hasenhuttl’s side have now lost four games in succession and the Austrian may do well to survive in his job much longer. HAALAND!

'I am so upset with him, he didn't score three goals'

This is the only thing I think about.” It is the first time in my managerial career that I get such questions. Three days after the last game, the players reacted like who they are.”

Robbie Keane has stated that Erling Haaland's love for scoring goals is what he admires most about the prolific Norwegian.

“What I love about him is that you can tell he loves scoring goals, that’s the difference,” Keane continued. “As soon as you see Kevin De Bruyne getting the ball, you have to make those runs. He’s just unbelievable.”

Pep Guardiola joked that he was 'upset' with Norwegian striker Erling Haaland for only scoring a single goal in 4-0 Manchester City win over Southampton.

In a 38-game season, the record is Mohamed Salah's 32 in 2017-18, while Andy Cole and Alan Shearer each scored 34 in a 42-game season. He said: "The problem is that even if he's not immediately scoring you have to be aware of him much more, the centre-backs are more fixed in the centre, it makes it harder for us in the press. He said: "He scored a brilliant goal. He went on to explain in greater detail. That's why there's a petition to sack him from the Premier League!" Guardiola said: "I'm so upset with him - he didn't score three goals.