Erling Haaland's Record Row With The Citizens, Most Recently Overtakes Mo Salah And Rud Van Nistelrooy's Goal Collection
YOGYAKARTA The Erling Haaland record line increased again after he scored one goal and one assists when his team Manchester City hosted Bayern Munich at the Etihad Stadium in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
Haaland's record after undergoing the match was being a Premier League player with the most goals collections in one season in all the events he participated in. Overall, the Norwegian has scored 45 goals in various competitions in the 2022/2023 season.
Haaland has surpassed the record held by Manchester United legend Ruud van Nistelrooy and Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah.
Van Nistelrooy scored 44 goals in the 2002/2003 season. Meanwhile, Salah did it in the 2017/2018 season.
Amazingly, Haaland has collected 45 goals in just 39 games. Meanwhile, Ruud Van Nistelrooy needed 52 games to be able to collect 44 goals.
In addition to being a Premier League player with the most goals collections in one season, along with other records set by Erling Haaland The Citizens.
Last month, the 22-year-old striker successfully broke the record as Manchester City's top scorer in one competition season. The record was previously held by Tommy Johnson with 38 goals in the 1928/1929 season.
In the 2022/2023 Champions League, Haaland has recorded 11 goals. He leads the top score list while the most prestigious league in Europe.
The Manchester City goal engine is three goals ahead of Salah who is in second place.Top scorer in the 2022/2023 Champions League
Erling Haaland is the first player in European football to be directly involved in 50 goals in all competitions this season.
Erling Haaland's next record is to become the fastest player to score at least 30 goals in the Champions League. The former Borusia Dortmund striker only needed 25 games to score 33 goals in the Champions League.
Haaland managed to get past the record set by Ruud van Nistelrooy who needed 34 games to get his 30th goal.
It didn't stop there, Haaland was also the youngest player to score at least 30 in the Champions League. Haaland was only 22 years old and 236 days old when he scored his 30th goal, younger than Kylian Mbappe.
Erling Haaland is one of the players who can score five goals in a league game.
History notes, there are only three players who can do it. The first player to score five goals in one Champions League game was Lionel Messi. La Pulga did it in 2012, when Barcelona won 7-1 over Bayer Leverkusen.
Then, there was Luis Adriano who scored 5 goals against Shakhtar in 2014. Adriano scored five goals in 82 minutes. Messi did it in 84 minutes, and Haaland only needed 57 minutes.
All records recorded by Haaland above were achieved when he was in Manchester City uniform.
That's information about Erling Haaland's record line.