Erling Haaland is the correct name of the season. The striker proved to be Europe’s most lethal at Manchester City, when many doubted he would fit, and he hasn’t stopped breaking records this season in the Premier League.
Without further ado, at the weekend the Norwegian giant equaled Andy Cole and Alan Shearer as the top scorers in the same season in the Premier League (34 goals) and became the youngest player in history to reach 50 goals in the same season, which has not been surpassed by anyone other than Cristiano Ronaldo (26 years old) and Leo Messi (24 years old), who achieved it for the first time in the 2010/2011 season. A milestone, in this second, that puts him at the level of two of the best scorers of all time and makes us ask whether Haaland (22 years old), this season, can surpass the best scoring record of each. Is that possible? This is what you should do.
What you need to do to surpass Cristiano Ronaldo
Although surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo’s best season is big words, it seems that it is something that Erling Haaland can fully achieve despite the fact that he is only 22 years old.
The best goalscoring course for CR7 started in the 2014/15 season. The Portuguese, Real Madrid footballer, has reached 61 goals in 54 games, a true outrage at the level of goals scored. This means that Haaland, in order to overcome this, needs to score 12 goals in the eight games remaining including the hypothetical Champions League final. In any case, the Norwegian must exceed his average number of goals per game, currently an enviable 1.1, to overcome CR7.
Overcoming Messi, a fantasy
The thing about Leo Messi is that he feeds off people. Erling Haaland is already forgetting to beat the Argentine this season because even in his best dreams he can’t do it. We are talking about the fact that in the 2011/12 season the then Barça player scored a whopping 73 goals in all competitions and he only needed 60 games for it.
It is not a miracle that will help Haaland who, in the hypothetical nine games to play if he reaches the final, would have to score an average of more than two goals per game, something that seems completely implausible despite the fact that it is the Brazilian.
In goals made, light years away
While it’s true that Erling Haaland is a beast and if he continues like this the ceiling he can have in front of goal will never be known, it seems unlikely that he will improve on the heydays of Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in those rule of objectives made.
While Erling Haaland, well past his 50 goals, provided only 8 assists, Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi, in their peak scoring seasons, distributed a whopping 23 and 32 goal assists respectively. Yes, and it is that the Argentine finished the 2011/12 season with more than 100 goals made, a real foreigner.
Source: La Verdad
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