We began to collate the astonishing stats that made Erling Haaland’s begin to life within the Premier League completely extraordinary some time in the past. He renders it woefully and embarrassingly outdated each recreation so let’s simply preserve this up to date as greatest we are able to.
Keep in mind that he has achieved all this regardless of famously barely bothering to the touch the ball the remainder of the time.
Listed here are a few of his Ridiculous Stats already…
* Haaland has develop into the primary Premier League participant in historical past about whom formerly-good soccer web site Football365.com has began doing a Ridiculous Stats piece after which realised to their horror goes to need to be up to date as soon as per week. Not less than.
* With 18 objectives to his identify, Haaland is six objectives away from his nearest ‘challenger’ for the Golden Boot, Harry Kane having managed solely a feeble 12 objectives up to now.
* These 18 objectives he’s plundered in his first few months in Our League are greater than the profession totals of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Michael Ballack, Erik Lamela, Alvaro Morata, Jose Antonio Reyes, Michy Batshuayi, Arjen Robben, Joe Allen, Fabio Borini, Demarai Grey, 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 and Timo Werner.
* Arsenal, Newcastle, Spurs, Manchester United, Liverpool, Fulham, Brentford, Brighton, Leeds, Leicester and the remainder of Manchester Metropolis are the one Premier League groups at present outscoring Haaland. He trails the mixed efforts of his teammates 22-18. Chelsea path Haaland by a aim.
* These Haaland objectives are at present coming alongside at a fee of 1 each 58 minutes. If he had been to proceed that fee and play each remaining minute of the league season (as much as you which of them of those at present appears much less seemingly…) he would finish the season with 55 Premier League objectives.
* By scoring 9 objectives in his first 5 Premier League video games, Haaland lastly knocked Micky Quinn’s identify out of the file books. He collectively held the earlier file for many objectives in his first 5 Premier League video games with eight within the yr soccer was invented. Sergio Aguero matched him in 2011/12.
* Haaland is already considered one of solely six gamers to rating back-to-back Premier League hat-tricks, however hasn’t but matched Harry Kane on this specific subject of excellence. Kane has not solely achieved it twice, however did so in the identical yr (if not the identical season) after scoring seven objectives throughout the ultimate two video games of 2016/17 in opposition to Leicester and Hull earlier than netting hat-tricks in successive video games in opposition to Burnley and Southampton both facet of Christmas Day seven months later. Laborious as it’s to credit score, by the way, that Boxing Day treble in opposition to Southampton in 2017 stays Kane’s most up-to-date Premier League treble.
* Along with his third hat-trick Haaland went previous the all-time Premier League totals of Gareth Bale, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane, Christian Benteke and Eden Hazard. He’s now degree with, deep breath, Cristiano Ronaldo, Romelu Lukaku, Heung-min Son, Robbie Keane, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Jamie Vardy, Didier Drogba, Nicolas Anelka, Frank Lampard and Emmanuel Adebayor.
* Haaland can also be degree on three Premier League hat-tricks with Dion Dublin. However what number of episodes of Houses Below the Hammer has Haaland offered? Precisely.
* Haaland’s three hat-tricks take Norway fifth above Spain on the listing of nations to have produced probably the most Premier League trebles with 13, 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). Argentina and Holland are joint-second with 18, which frankly shouldn’t take too lengthy to topple, however even Haaland should hold round a number of years to knock England’s 161 hat-tricks off prime spot.
* Haaland is the primary participant within the Premier League to attain hat-tricks in three successive residence video games, and the primary Manchester Metropolis participant to attain a Manchester derby hat-trick since 1970.
* Haaland is unsurprisingly the quickest participant ever to achieve three Premier League hat-tricks after getting there in eight(!) video games. The earlier file holder was Michael Owen, who managed it in a sluggish 48 video games. Subsequent greatest are Ruud van Nistelrooy, who took 59 video games, Fernando Torres (64) and Andy Cole (65).
* Haaland’s 18 Premier League objectives have come from 52 pictures and, much more ridiculously, 292 complete touches. That’s a shot conversion fee of 34.62%, and a contact conversion fee of 6.16%. To be completely clear about what we’re saying right here: roughly one in six of Haaland’s touches is a shot, and one in 16 of Haaland’s touches is a aim.
* After a few assists to arrange Phil Foden within the derby took his complete for the season to a few, we are able to add one other layer of Haaland daftness there: 7.2% – about one in 14 – of Haaland’s touches produce a aim or an help.
94:33 – At 94 minutes and 33 seconds, Erling Haaland’s penalty is Manchester Metropolis’s newest profitable aim 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 back-to-back hat-tricks in opposition to Palace and Forest got here from a mixed complete of 32 touches.
* Eighteen objectives betters Didier Drogba’s complete return in seven of his 9 Premier League campaigns with Chelsea.
* Jermain Defoe reached 18 Premier League objectives in solely considered one of his 18 seasons in England’s prime flight. He scored 18 for Spurs in 2009/10.
* Solely two gamers scored greater than 18 Premier League objectives final season: Mo Salah and Heung-min Son. Haaland is at present degree with Cristiano Ronaldo’s complete from final time period.
* Eighteen objectives offers Haaland a Golden Boot-winning complete from 1997/98 and 1998/99, and only one behind 2008/09.
* Haaland is now over midway to breaking the file for many Premier League objectives in a single season.
* At his current fee of scoring, Haaland will break Alan Shearer’s Premier League file of 260 objectives in his one hundred and seventieth recreation.
* Haaland is each the quickest and youngest participant to achieve 20 Champions League objectives, obliterating Harry Kane’s actually fairly spectacular earlier benchmark of 24 video games by 10 when reaching the landmark in simply 14 video games for Salzburg and Dortmund. At 20 years and 231 days outdated, Haaland was over a yr youthful than earlier record-holder Kylian Mbappe because the youngest participant to achieve 20 Champions League objectives.
* After simply 23 caps, Haaland is joint eighth on the listing of main goalscorers for the Norway males’s nationwide workforce with 21 objectives (degree with 79-cap legend Steffen Iversen) and wishes simply 13 extra to overtake Jorgen Juve’s benchmark of 33 which has stood since earlier than World Conflict Two.
Erling Haaland honours
Austrian Bundesliga: 2018/19, 2019/20
DFB-Pokal: 2020/21
Bundesliga Participant of the Season: 2020/21
Bundesliga Participant of the Month: January 2020, November 2020, April 2021, August 2021
Bundesliga Group of the Season: 2020/21, 2021/22
UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season: 2020/21
UEFA Champions League Ahead of the Season: 2020/21
UEFA Champions League Prime Goalscorer: 2020/21
UEFA Nations League Prime Goalscorer: 2020/21
FIFA FIFPro World 11: 2021
Premier League Participant of the Month: August 2022
Erling Haaland top-flight league objectives file
Molde (Eliteserien) 2017-2018: 39 video games, 14 objectives
Crimson Bull Salzburg (Austrian Bundesliga) 2018-2020: 16 video games, 17 objectives
Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga) 2020-2022: 67 video games, 62 objectives
Manchester Metropolis (Premier League) 2022: 13 video games, 18 objectives
Complete: 135 video games, 111 objectives
Erling Haaland Champions League file
Crimson Bull Salzburg 2019-20: 6 video games, 8 objectives
Borussia Dortmund 2019-22: 13 video games, 15 objectives
Manchester Metropolis 2022: 4 video games, 5 objectives
Complete: 23 video games, 28 objectives
Erling Haaland worldwide file
Norway 2019-22: 23 video games, 21 objectives
