Date printed: Saturday 15th April 2023 7:20 – Dave Tickner
We began to collate the wonderful stats that made Erling Haaland’s birth to lifestyles within the Premier League thoroughly extraordinary a while within the past. He renders it woefully and embarrassingly out of date every game so let’s lawful wait on this up to this point as excellent we can.
Receive in thoughts that he has executed all this despite famously barely bothering to the touch the ball the remaining of the time, which implies he is additionally the excellent player in history to ranking targets roughly as soon as an hour while additionally elevating legit questions about whether or no longer he basically makes Man Metropolis worse.
Here are some of his Ridiculous Stats…
* Haaland has change into the first Premier League player in history about whom beforehand-factual soccer internet build Football365.com has started doing a Ridiculous Stats piece and then realised to their awe goes to must be up to this point as soon as a week. A minimal of.
* Erling Haaland has 32 targets in his first 28 Premier League appearances – better than the excellent scoring Premier League seasons of Luis Suarez (31 in 33, 2013/14), Cristiano Ronaldo (31 in 34, 2007/08), Thierry Henry (30 in in 37, 2003/04), Kevin Phillips (30 in 36, 1999/00), Robin van Persie (30 in 38, 2011/12), Didier Drogba (29 in 32, 2009/10), Les Ferdinand (25 in 37, 1995/96), Ruud van Nistelrooy (25 in 34, 2002/03), Romelu Lukaku (25 in 37, 2016/17), Fernando Torres (24 in 33, 2007/08), Jamie Vardy (24 in 36, 2015/16), Emmanuel Adebayor (24 in 36, 2007/08), Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (23 in 35, 2000/01 and 2001/02), Ian Wright (23 in 35, 1996/97), Frank Lampard (22 in 36, 2009/10), Sadio Mane (22 in 36, 2018/19), Teddy Sheringham (22 in 41, 1992/93), Dwight Yorke (20 in 32, 1999/2000), Dimitar Berbatov (20 in 32, 2010/11), Raheem Sterling (20 in 33, 2019/20), Michael Owen (19 in 29, 2001/02), Nicolas Anelka (19 in 37, 2008/09), Jermain Defoe (18 in 34, 2009/10) and Robbie Keane (16 in 36, 2005/06).
* 32 targets betters Sergio Aguero’s total return in any of his 10 Premier League campaigns with Manchester Metropolis.
* 32 targets betters Wayne Rooney’s total return in any of his 16 Premier League campaigns.
* There agree with now excellent ever been two better goalscoring Premier League seasons than Erling Haaland’s uncompleted debut marketing campaign to this point. The Norwegian has ten video games final to surpass Alan Shearer (34 targets in 94/95) and Andy Cole (34 targets in 93/94).
* Haaland has now drawn level with Mohamed Salah’s checklist of 32 targets in a 38 game season, executed by the Egyptian in 2017/18.
* With 47 targets, Erling Haaland has broken the checklist for quite a bit of targets in one season in all competitions by a Premier League player, surpassing Mo Salah in 2017/18 and Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2002/03 (both 44).
* With 32 Premier League targets to his title, Haaland is 9 targets positive of his nearest ‘challenger’ for the Golden Boot, with Harry Kane having managed excellent a outdated 23 (albeit checklist-breaking) targets to this point. Haaland additionally executed 2d excellent to Kane on the checklist of top Premier League goalscorers for 2022 despite no longer making his debut within the opponents till August.
* Regardless of having roughly zero probability of including to his tally of Golden Boots, distant 2d Kane has himself already surpassed the Premier League’s top goalscorers from 1192/93, 1997/98, 1998/ninety 9, 2006/07 2008/09, 2010/11 and 2018/19 with eight video games aloof to play, and matched the winners from 2000/01, 2010/11, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22.
* Those 32 targets Haaland’s plundered in his first eight months in Our League are extra than the occupation totals of Jurgen Klinsmann, Nicky Butt, Juninho, Jesse Lingard, Savo Milosevic, Paul Rideout, Paul Pogba, Tammy Abraham, Nani, Victor Anichebe, Benjani, Roque Santa Cruz, Marcus Stewart, Mick Quinn, Stephane Sessegnon, Lomano Lua Lua, Tony Yeboah, Andrey Arshavin, Xherdan Shaqiri, Divock Origi, Mario Balotelli, Patrick Bamford, David Ginola, Michael Ricketts, Gianluca Vialli, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Michael Ballack, Erik Lamela, Alvaro Morata, Jose Antonio Reyes, Michy Batshuayi, Arjen Robben, Joe Allen, Fabio Borini, Demarai Gray, Odion Ighalo, Alex Iwobi, Robinho, Kai Havertz, Andre Schurrle, Luka Modric, David Platt, Gareth Southgate, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Edinson Cavani, Mousa Dembele, Samuel Eto’o, Dimitri Payet, Ademola Lookman, Harry Maguire, Emmanuel Petit, Granit Xhaka, Daniel Amokachi, Diego Forlan, Serhiy Rebrov, Andriy Shevchenko, Ronnie Rosenthal, Peter Beagrie, Gavin Peacock, Timo Werner, Jack Grealish, Luis Garcia and Alf-Inge Haaland.
* Southampton, Bournemouth, Everton, West Ham, Wolves, Nottingham Wooded area, Crystal Palace and proper Chelsea agree with all scored fewer Premier League targets this season than Haaland. He trails the blended efforts of his teammates forty five-32.
* Those Haaland targets are within the intervening time coming alongside at a charge of one every 65 minutes. If he had been to continue that charge and play every final minute of the league season (up to you which of them of these within the intervening time looks much less most likely…) he would discontinuance the season with forty five Premier League targets.
* By scoring 9 targets in his first five Premier League video games, Haaland in a roundabout way knocked Micky Quinn’s title out of the checklist books. The dilapidated Coventry forward jointly held the old checklist for quite a bit of targets in his first five Premier League video games with eight within the 300 and sixty five days soccer became invented. Sergio Aguero matched that in 2011/12.
* Haaland is already one of excellent six avid gamers to ranking encourage-to-encourage Premier League hat-tricks, but hasn’t but matched Harry Kane in this particular self-discipline of excellence. Kane has no longer excellent executed it twice, but did so within the identical 300 and sixty five days (if no longer the identical season) after scoring seven targets all around the last two video games of 2016/17 in opposition to Leicester and Hull sooner than netting hat-tricks in successive video games in opposition to Burnley and Southampton either side of Christmas Day seven months later. Exhausting as it’s to credit rating, incidentally, that Boxing Day treble in opposition to Southampton in 2017 remains Kane’s most up-to-date Premier League hat-trick.
* Four Premier League hat-tricks is already extra than the occupation totals of Emmanuel Adebayor, Nicolas Anelka, Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard, Romelu Lukaku, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Heung-min Son, Jamie Vardy, Gareth Bale, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane, Christian Benteke and Eden Hazard. He is now level with, deep breath, Yakubu, Kevin Campbell, Jermain Defoe, Les Ferdinand, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Matt Le Tissier, Mohamed Salah, Teddy Sheringham, Chris Sutton, Carlos Tevez, Fernando Torres and Dwight Yorke.
* Four Premier League hat-tricks in a single season is extra than any player has managed bar Alan Shearer, who scored five for Blackburn in 1995/96.
* Haaland has additionally surpassed Dion Dublin’s three Premier League hat-tricks. However what number of episodes of Homes Below the Hammer has Haaland presented? Exactly.
* Haaland’s four hat-tricks take Norway fifth above Spain on the checklist of countries to agree with produced the most Premier League trebles with 14, Haaland standing on the shoulders of such giants as Solskjaer, Steffen Iversen and Joshua King (two every), John Carew, Tore Andre Flo and Jan Age Fjortoft (one every). Argentina and Holland are joint-2d with 18 and France are on 17, which frankly shouldn’t take too long to topple, but even Haaland will agree with to loiter spherical about a years to knock England’s 161 hat-tricks off top characteristic.
* Haaland is the first player within the Premier League to ranking hat-tricks in three successive home video games, and the first Manchester Metropolis player to ranking a Manchester derby hat-trick since 1970.
* Haaland is unsurprisingly the quickest player ever to attain three Premier League hat-tricks after getting there in eight(!) video games. The old checklist holder became Michael Owen, who managed it in a sluggish forty eight video games. Next excellent are Ruud van Nistelrooy (59 video games), Fernando Torres (64) and Andy Cole (65).
* Haaland is additionally by definition the quickest player ever to attain four Premier League hat-tricks after getting there in 19(!) video games. The old checklist holder became Ruud van Nistelrooy, who managed it in a laborious 65 video games. Next excellent are Luis Suarez (81), Alan Shearer (86) and Robbie Fowler (89).
* Haaland’s 32 Premier League targets agree with attain from 96 footage and, even extra ridiculously, 648 total touches. That’s a shot conversion charge of 33.3%, and a marginally conversion charge of 5%. To be fully positive about what we’re asserting here: roughly one in seven of Haaland’s touches is a shot, and one in 20 of Haaland’s touches is a blueprint.
* With five assists within the Premier League to this point, we can add one more layer of Haaland daftness there: 5.7% – about one in 17 – of Haaland’s touches assemble a blueprint or an lend a hand.
94:33 – At 94 minutes and 33 seconds, Erling Haaland’s penalty is Manchester Metropolis’s most modern profitable blueprint within the Premier League since November 2017 in opposition to Southampton, when Raheem Sterling scored on 95:04. Rescued. pic.twitter.com/EDeGqVrpp0
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) November 5, 2022
* The encourage-to-encourage hat-tricks in opposition to Palace and Wooded area came from a blended total of 32 touches.
* Haaland is the quickest player to ever ranking 25 targets below Pep Guardiola, doing so in 20 video games to beat Lionel Messi (28), Samuel Eto’o (30), Sergio Aguero (35) and Thierry Henry (41).
* Haaland has already beaten the Premier League Golden Boot-profitable blueprint totals of 1992/93, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/ninety 9, 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/2008, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/2012, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22. Twenty-seven seasons, one has been matched and two remain.
* Haaland is now extra than 94 per cent of the style to breaking the checklist for quite a bit of Premier League targets in a single season, jointly held by Andy Cole (1993/94) and Alan Shearer (1994/95) with 34 targets in 42-game campaigns.
* At his unique 1.14 targets-per-game charge, Haaland would shatter Alan Shearer’s Premier League checklist of 260 targets in his 228th game.
* No player has scored extra targets in a season for Manchester Metropolis than Haaland. Tommy Johnson’s worth of 38 targets stood since 1929 sooner than Haaland broke it by mid-March of his debut marketing campaign.
* Handiest 13 avid gamers agree with ever scored extra targets below Pep Guardiola. Haaland’s 44 in 38 video games is better than Xavi (36 in 208), Mario Gotze (36 in 114), Samuel Eto’o (36 in 52), David Villa (32 in 76) and Thierry Henry (30 in 74).
* Haaland became both the quickest and youngest player to attain 20 Champions League targets, obliterating Harry Kane’s basically reasonably impressive old benchmark of 24 video games by 10 when reaching the landmark in barely 14 video games for Salzburg and Dortmund. At twenty years and 231 days broken-down, Haaland became over a 300 and sixty five days younger than old checklist-holder Kylian Mbappe because the youngest player to attain 20 Champions League targets.
* Haaland became additionally the quickest and youngest player to attain 30 Champions League targets, reaching the worth in 25 video games and thus shattering Ruud van Nistelrooy’s old 34-match haul, while beating Kylian Mbappe by 116 days.
* Handiest Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo (both 8), Robert Lewandowski (6), Karim Benzema (4), Mario Gomez, Filippo Inzaghi, Luiz Adriano and Neymar (3) agree with scored extra occupation Champions League hat-tricks than Haaland’s two.
* Haaland has as many European Cup targets (34) in 26 video games as Gerd Muller in 35.
* Handiest 21 avid gamers agree with ever scored extra European Cup targets than Haaland. In the Champions League, that number is reduced to lawful 18.
* Haaland has extra European Cup targets than Fernando Morientes, Arjen Robben, Samuel Eto’o, Paco Gento, Antoine Griezmann, Kaka, Wayne Rooney, Patrick Kluivert, David Trezeguet, Ryan Giggs, Sadio Mane, Rivaldo, Luis Suarez and a couple of others.
* Haaland has 11 targets in Manchester Metropolis’s 2022/23 Champions League marketing campaign – in excellent 13 of 67 European Cup seasons has the highest scorer executed with extra targets.
* That tally of 11 is already better than Haaland’s 10 when he obtained the opponents’s Golden Boot in 2020/21. Handiest 12 avid gamers agree with ever executed a couple of European Cup seasons as top scorer – and lawful Ronaldo, Messi, Van Nistelrooy, Raul and Andriy Shevchenko agree with executed it within the Champions League period.
* Haaland has excellent played 9 video games within the Champions League knockout stages but lawful 16 avid gamers agree with extra targets in such fits.
* Haaland has as many Champions League knockout stage targets (12) as Thierry Henry in 36 video games.
* Haaland has extra Champions League knockout stage targets than Kaka, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Fernando Torres, Samuel Eto’o and Mo Salah, amongst others.
* Haaland and Lionel Messi are the excellent avid gamers to ranking a significant-half of hat-trick in a Champions League knockout game.
* Haaland, Messi and Luiz Adriano are the excellent avid gamers to ranking five targets in a Champions League game.
* After lawful 23 caps, Haaland is joint eighth on the checklist of leading goalscorers for the Norway men’s nationwide team with 21 targets (level with seventy 9-cap yarn Steffen Iversen) and desires lawful 13 extra to overhaul Jorgen Juve’s benchmark of 33 which has stood since sooner than World Battle Two.
* Haaland has scored 201 targets in 244 competitive top-flight occupation appearances.
Erling Haaland honours
Austrian Bundesliga: 2018/19, 2019/20
DFB-Pokal: 2020/21
Bundesliga Player of the Season: 2020/21
Bundesliga Player of the Month: January 2020, November 2020, April 2021, August 2021
Bundesliga Crew of the Season: 2020/21, 2021/22
UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season: 2020/21
UEFA Champions League Forward of the Season: 2020/21
UEFA Champions League Top Goalscorer: 2020/21
UEFA International locations League Top Goalscorer: 2020/21
FIFA FIFPro World 11: 2021
Premier League Player of the Month: August 2022
Erling Haaland top-flight league targets checklist
Molde (Eliteserien) 2017-2018: 39 video games, 14 targets
Crimson Bull Salzburg (Austrian Bundesliga) 2018-2020: 16 video games, 17 targets
Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga) 2020-2022: 67 video games, 62 targets
Manchester Metropolis (Premier League) 2022-23: 28 video games, 32 targets
Entire: 149 video games, 124 targets
Erling Haaland Champions League checklist
Crimson Bull Salzburg 2019-20: 6 video games, 8 targets
Borussia Dortmund 2019-22: 13 video games, 15 targets
Manchester Metropolis 2022: 7 video games, 11 targets
Entire: 26 video games, 34 targets
Erling Haaland world checklist
Norway 2019-22: 23 video games, 21 targets