The Norwegian already has two records and has scored nine goals in his first five league matches
Erling Braut Haaland is already scary in the Premier League. The Norwegian striker, this summer’s star signing with permission from Robert Lewandowski, has started his career in English football and could not have done better. The former Borussia Dortmund player scored his second hat-trick against Nottingham Forest on Wednesday and now has nine goals in five games. No one in the entire history of English football had achieved such figures in so few games.
“He has a special talent, an incredible nose for goals, he smells them. He hadn’t touched the ball and scored with his first touch. His finishing is very good and his work ethic is also fantastic. We are delighted,” said Pep Guardiola when asked about Haaland. The Manchester City coach had no choice but to indulge in the virtues of his striker. A while earlier, Haaland had destroyed Forest with three goals in just 26 minutes. It was a spectacle on purpose in the first half as the Norwegian led his side 6-0 with a pre-goal near the post, another opportunist taking advantage of a rebound in the area and another with a header. A perfect triplet with left, right and head.
And it is that Haaland is a striker who in his first months in England shows that he has all the means to achieve the goal. Manchester City represent a change of style for a ‘9’ who have grown accustomed to playing in space at Borussia Dortmund and must now mix gluttony with association with the likes of Foden, Bernardo Silva, Mahrez or De Bruyne. All that second-line talent has put Guardiola at the service of a player who knows he is in the ideal place to grow and reach the top. It’s the definitive weapon the “sky blues” needed to aspire to anything.
In the first five days of the Premier League, Haaland is determined to show that his goal is to make history in one of the most powerful leagues in the world. He scored two against West Ham, one against Newcastle and two hat-tricks against Crystal Palace and Nottingham. These numbers surpass the eight goals scored by Sergio Aguero in the 2011-2012 campaign and Mick Quinn in 1992-1993 in the same interval in games. Former Dortmund’s gluttony also allows him to be the player who took the least time to score two trebles in England. He only needed five games, for the 21 he needed Demba Ba, a player who held the previous record, in 2011 with Newcastle.
Source: La Verdad
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