With his double in the first period against Leicester on Saturday for the 31st day of the Premier League, the Norwegian of Manchester City Erling Haaland equaled the record of 32 goals scored in a season at 38 days.
Faced with the penultimate of the championship, John Stones first opened the scoring with a good recovery at the entrance to the area (1-0, 5th), before Haaland doubled the bet on penalty in the 12th .
Twelve minutes later, he offered his 5th double of the season (3-0, 25th), with a stung ball, to which we can add four hat-tricks in the 28 games he played. The 22-year-old striker was replaced at the break by Julian Alvarez.
Liverpool’s Egyptian Mohamed Salah was the only striker to score 32 goals in a season since the Premier League expanded to 20 clubs in 1995/1996, playing 36 matches in the 2017/2018 season, a bar that Haaland still has eight matchdays to overtake, with City one game behind.
The all-time record of 34 goals in a Premier League season is held jointly by Andy Cole with Newcastle in 1993/94 and Alan Shearer the following year with Blackburn, but the English top flight then had 22 teams and 42 matchdays.