Haaland: new Premier League record and eight games to surpass another record from 95 years ago | INFOGRAPHIC

He has earned every adjective with which he seeks to qualify his scoring production. Erling Haaland is “he has the definition of Harry Kane, the power of Wayne Rooney and the speed of Ronaldo (Nazario)”, says former Manchester United Gary Neville and no one questions those words because Haaland is in charge of silencing them with goals. Like the great goal he scored in Manchester City’s 3-0 win over West Ham.

Yesterday the Norwegian striker scored a great goal by scoring one-on-one to reach 35 goals in the Premier League, a record number for the tournament that has been played since 1992. He surpassed the 34 of Shearer and Cole, who did it almost thirty years ago when the English tournament was played in 42 dates, in fact, both scorers reached that figure in many more games than the Norwegian.

Thus, Haaland has set all the milestones in the Premier League, from being the top-scoring rookie in the Premier League to scoring more goals than anyone in the current format. But two historical records of English football remain.

A bit unrealistic to be honest, I wasn’t thinking about this kind of record when I came here and breaking it means I’ve done something special and I’m really proud of this moment.

Erling Haaland

With his 35 goals, he is the top scorer in an edition of the Premier League, but he is two goals away from the record for English football in general.

Meanwhile, he reached his 51st goal in the season and the best record of an English soccer player in a campaign is William Ralph Dean scored his 60 goals in 39 games in the English League and another three in the FA Cup. His figure is mythical at Everton, for his 349 goals in 399 games and for stories such as refusing to greet Hitler on a tour of Nazi Germany, as well as being the protagonist of one of the great phrases of Billi Shankly, idol in the archrival Liverpool: “Dixie Dean was, to football, what Mozart was to music”. That is why a statue stands at the entrance to Goodison Park, Everton’s stadium.

And the Norwegian Haaland still has a long way to go. Five Premier League games, a minimum of two in the Champions League (semi-final against Real Madrid) and the FA Cup final against Manchester United. That is the challenge for the citizens to win three titles in the season and for Haaland to make his numbers bigger, perhaps unattainable.

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