Erling Haaland's ridiculous stats: Mohamed Salah's record falls in Arsenal's mayhem

We started putting together the stunning stats that made Erling Haaland's start to life in the Premier League quite extraordinary some time ago. It makes it terribly and embarrassingly obsolete with every playthrough, so let's keep that up to date as best we can.

Keep in mind he did all of this while barely bothering to touch the ball the rest of the time, which means he's also the only player in the game. history of scoring goals about once an hour while raising legitimate goals. questions about whether he actually makes Man City worse.

Here are some of his ridiculous stats…

*Haaland has become the first Premier League player in history that former football site Football365.com started reporting on the ridiculous stats, then realized to their horror that it was going to have to be updated once a week. At least.

* Erling Haaland has scored 34 goals in his first 30 Premier League appearances, equaling the record for most goals in a single season, jointly held by Andy Cole and Alan Shearer (both in 42 games).

* With 50 goals, Erling Haaland broke the record for most goals in a season in all competitions by a Premier League player, overtaking Mo Salah in 2017/18 and Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2002/03 (44 each).< /p>

* The only player in the history of top-flight English football to score more goals in all competitions in a single season than Haaland's 50 in 2022/23 is Dixie Dean (63 for Everton in 1927/ 28).

* With 34 Premier League goals to his name, Haaland is 10 goals clear of his closest 'challenger' for the Golden Boot, with Harry Kane managing just a weak (albeit record) 24 goals. so far. Haaland also finished second to Kane on the Premier League top scorers list for 2022 despite only making his competitive debut in August.

*Despite having next to no chance of adding to his tally of Golden Boots, distant second Kane himself has already topped the Premier League's top scorers of 1992/93, 1997/98, 1998/99, 2006/07 2008/09, 2010/11 and 2018/19 with eight games still to play, and tied the winners of 2000/01, 2010/11, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 .

*These 34 goals looted by Haaland in his first eight months in Our League are more than the career totals of Mesut Ozil, Jurgen Klinsmann, Nicky Butt, Juninho, Jesse Lingard, Savo Milosevic, Paul Rideout, Paul Pogba , Tammy Abraham, Nani, Victor Anichebe, Benjani, Roque Santa Cruz, Marcus Stewart, Mick Quinn, Stéphane Sessegnon, Lomano Lua Lua, Tony Yeboah, Andrey Arshavin, Xherdan Shaqiri, Divock Origi, Mario Balotelli, Patrick Bamford, David Ginola, Michael Ricketts, Gianluca Vialli, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Michael Ballack, Erik Lamela, Alvaro Morata, José Antonio Reyes, Michy Batshuayi, Arjen Robben, Joe Allen, Fabio Borini, Demarai Gray, Odion Ighalo, Alex Iwobi, Robinho, Kai Havertz, André 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, Timo Werner, Jack Grealish, Luis Garcia and Alf-Inge Haaland.

* Southampton, Bournemouth, Everton, Wolves, Nottingham Forest and Chelsea have all scored fewer Premier League goals this season than Haaland. He trails the combined efforts of his teammates 49-34.

* These Haaland goals are currently coming in at the rate of one every 68 minutes. If he were to continue at this pace and play every remaining minute of the league season (it's up to you which of these currently seems less likely…) he would end the season with 42 Premier League goals.

* By scoring nine goals in his first five Premier League games, Haaland has finally knocked Micky Quinn's name out of the record books. The former Coventry striker jointly held the previous record for most goals in his first five Premier League games, including eight in the year football was invented. Sergio Aguero equaled that in 2011/12.

* Haaland is already one of only six players to score consecutive hat-tricks in the Premier League, but has yet to match Harry Kane in that particular area of ​​excellence. Kane didn't...