Plenty have tumbled already but more records are still standing for Man City striker Erling Haaland to break this season if he actually puts his mind to it.
10) Most goals in a Premier League season
The records in a 42-game and 38-game season respectively are 34 and 32; Haaland is on 28
It was in only the second and third ever Premier League seasons that a seemingly unassailable bar was set and then immediately equalled. Andy Cole scored 34 goals for Newcastle in 1993/94, holding off the challenge of Alan Shearer. But the Blackburn striker matched that tally the next year to deliver the only Premier League title of his career in the top-flight’s final 42-game season.
For more than two decades the 31 goals Shearer scored in the 1995/96 season was the benchmark across 38 matches. It was reached by Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez but not beaten until Mo Salah came along for Liverpool in 2017/18. Haaland needs five goals in 11 games to surpass the Egyptian, then two more to finally conquer Cole and Shearer.
9) Most matches scored in during a Premier League season
The record is 24; Haaland is on 17
Salah scoring just the one hat-trick for Liverpool in that remarkable 2017/18 season – sticking four goals past Watford in a 5-0 win at Vicarage Road – meant he broke an arguably more challenging record. It is one thing to stat-pad with substantial hauls against weaker teams but a whole other to vanquish every kind of side with no discrimination.
The brilliance of Salah’s feat was that he scored a single goal and no more in 18 games, netting in 24 matches overall. Haaaland has scored in 17 of Manchester City’s 27 games so it is perfectly reasonable to expect this record to be tested.
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8) Most teams scored against in a Premier League season
The record in both a 42-game and 38-game season is 17; Haaland is on 15
Strikers tend to get two bites of the other 19 cherries in a Premier League season, yet the most opponents a player has scored against in any top-flight campaign since 1992 is 17. Again, Cole and Shearer achieved that tally in their seminal seasons.
Since then, Ian Wright (1996/97), Robin van Persie (2011/12) and Salah (2017/18, of course) have scored against all but two of the teams on offer in a season. Wright missed out Sunderland – whom he faced only once – and Man Utd, Van Persie could not check off Fulham or Manchester City, and Salah…
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