Erling Haaland has scored goals and set records with indiscriminate brilliance for Manchester City this season, but some landmarks are out of even his reach.
Yet another record fell for Haaland when he scored his 35th goal of the Premier League season to help secure an important win against West Ham.
The Norwegian now has the most goals of any player in a single Premier League season, and the list of records he has broken this campaign is stunning.
But as good as he is, these single-season records won’t be part of his collection for one reason or another.
Most consecutive games scored in
Haaland has embarked on two lengthy consecutive scoring runs in the Premier League this season, netting in seven successive games between August and October before starting his current sequence of six fixtures in March. But even if the Norwegian nets in each of Manchester City’s remaining games against Leeds, Everton, Chelsea and Brighton, it won’t be enough to beat Jamie Vardy’s mark of 11, set in November 2015.
It would, however, give him quite the incentive to start next campaign with a bang.
Most goals in an English top-flight league season
The record for goals in a Premier League season has fallen but football apparently didn’t start in 1992 and, limiting it just to top scorers in a campaign, 18 players have plundered more than Haaland’s 35 in an English top-flight league season.
That ranges from Tottenham’s Bobby Smith, who scored 36 in 1957/58, to the eight who breached the 40-mark: Jimmy Greaves (41 in 1960/61), Vic Watson (41 in 1929/30), Ted Drake (42 in 1934/35), Dave Halliday (43 in 1928/29), Ted Harper (43 in 1925/26), Dixie Dean (44 in 1931/32), Tom Waring (49 in 1930/31) and Dean again (60 in 1927/28).
Haaland could catch a few of those names and usurp a few in between, but Everton legend Dean is under no threat.
Most headed goals
Harry Kane is already ahead – fantastic – of Haaland for Premier League goals with the noggin this season. The Tottenham forward has nine headed goals this season, with his Manchester City counterpart nodding six past opposition keepers.
Kane only jointly holds the current record along with Duncan Ferguson. Those are two very different strikers, as evidenced by the fact that Kane’s percentage of headed goals this season is 36%, compared to Big Dunc’s 81.8% (9 of 11) for Everton in 1997/98.
Most penalty goals
There is a vague chance that Haaland could pull level with Andy Johnson, who converted 11…
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