Erling Haaland record: Revisiting some of the Premier League's greatest strikers

Erling Haaland scored 5 goals against RB Leipzig successful the Champions League circular of 16, the 3rd subordinate to bash truthful aft Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano

Erling Haaland's relentless goalscoring rampage successful his archetypal play astatine Manchester City has written a caller section successful the Premier League's past books.

The 22-year-old's past deeds astatine RB Salzburg and Borussia Dortmund created a frenzy of anticipation erstwhile helium signed for City, but the complaint astatine which Haaland has racked up goals has amazed adjacent the astir optimistic observers.

In covering each Premier League play since its inception, I bash not callback a striker with a much voracious appetite for goals playing successful a squad truthful ideally placed to fulfill it.

Haaland, from a antiaircraft perspective, is simply a terrifying cocktail of carnal power, lightning gait and a tendency to people and people again. And again.

And the worrying happening for those hoping the good volition tally adust is that it is not a agelong to suggest Haaland and City are inactive getting utilized to each other, inactive perfecting the matrimony of manager Pep Guardiola's passing crippled with the sheer powerfulness and menace the Norwegian offers.

This volition not beryllium the past grounds Haaland breaks.

Dixie Dean's 60 league goals successful a play for Everton 95 years agone mightiness beryllium retired of scope but elsewhere each bets are off, the existent chartless being however agelong Haaland volition enactment successful Manchester.

Football did beryllium earlier 1992 - I cognize due to the fact that I was determination - but what follows present is simply a look astatine immoderate of the astir prolific strikers successful the Premier League era.

Magicians specified arsenic Eric Cantona and Dennis Bergkamp person not been ignored here. They merit examining successful the wider discourse distant from conscionable goalscoring, specified was the breadth of their talent.

But Haaland's latest grounds has made maine revisit immoderate of the large strikers that I person seen successful my vocation arsenic a shot journalist.

And it is simply a tribute to Haaland's archetypal play successful the Premier League, and the almost-frightening country for improvement helium inactive has astatine City, that if helium stays agelong capable helium could enactment the records of each these large players successful the shadiness - and quickly.

'Identikit world-class striker' - Alan Shearer

Alan Shearer is the Premier League's grounds goalscorer with 260 goals

Alan Shearer inactive leads the Premier League's all-time standings, the identikit world-class striker.

Powerful successful the aerial contempt not being particularly tall, helium was physically imposing and a goalscorer of the highest quality, arsenic proved erstwhile helium inspired Blackburn Rovers to the rubric successful 1995. He aboriginal lived the imagination wearing the fig 9 garment of his beloved Newcastle United, the statue extracurricular St James' Park grounds to his nine grounds 206 goals successful 404 games.

My archetypal sighting of Shearer came erstwhile I saw the 19-year-old playing for Southampton against Liverpool successful October 1989 arsenic portion of a talented onslaught alongside Paul Rideout, Rod Wallace and Matthew Le Tissier.

Liverpool were already connected their mode to what would beryllium their past rubric for 30 years but Shearer, supplied with concrete-clad self-belief adjacent arsenic a teenager, destroyed Liverpool's celebrated antiaircraft duo of Alan Hansen and Glenn Hysen successful Saints' 4-1 win.

'The King' - Didier Drogba

Didier Drogba was a predominant goalscorer successful cupful finals for Chelsea

Didier Drogba was different centre guardant successful the classical mould. His speciality was the large game. Could anyone present erstwhile it mattered rather similar Drogba?

I was successful attendance for his top hour, the 2012 Champions League last erstwhile Chelsea claimed the crown for the archetypal clip against Bayern Munich successful their ain Allianz Arena.

Drogba scored Chelsea's precocious equaliser earlier calmly tucking successful the deciding punishment successful the shootout. He adjacent gave distant a penalty, which Bayern missed, but enactment matters close spectacularly.

In the aftermath, successful the bowels of the stadium, Frank Lampard conscionable pointed astatine Drogba arsenic helium walked past and said: "He's my hero. The King. The antheral who produces."

And King Didier besides scored winning goals successful 3 FA Cup finals, against Manchester United successful 2007, Portsmouth 3 years aboriginal and again against Liverpool successful 2012. He besides scored the equaliser successful Chelsea's triumph against Everton successful 2009.

'Brutal ruthlessness' - Thierry Henry

Thierry Henry scored 228 goals crossed 2 spells with Arsenal

Arsenal fans volition bow to no-one successful their admiration for Thierry Henry, who could premix brutal ruthlessness and brilliance erstwhile it came to scoring, with 228 goals successful 377 games - not forgetting Ian Wright's 185 goals successful 288 games.

One infinitesimal witnessed successful idiosyncratic was genuinely special, erstwhile Henry made a astonishment Arsenal comeback connected indebtedness from New York Red Bulls to look Leeds United successful an FA Cup third-round necktie successful January 2012.

Henry emerged arsenic a precocious substitute astatine Emirates Stadium, taking 4 touches to get a consciousness for the aged spot again earlier scoring the winner. It whitethorn not person been the astir important extremity successful the vocation of an Arsenal "Invincible" but it was a magical moment.

'Unalloyed hysteria' - Sergio Aguero

Haaland volition person Manchester City's grounds scorer Sergio Aguero successful his sights if helium remains agelong capable astatine Etihad Stadium

Has determination been a much celebrated Premier League extremity scored by a large striker than the 1 Sergio Aguero scored aft 93 minutes 20 seconds to triumph Manchester City's archetypal rubric for 44 years, snatching it distant from Manchester United connected extremity difference?

To beryllium wrong Etihad Stadium connected that time successful May 2012 was to acquisition despair, hope, anticipation and past axenic unalloyed hysteria, each successful the abstraction of 5 stoppage-time minutes, arsenic City scored doubly to bushed QPR 3-2.

As adjacent those of america successful the property container tried to unscramble minds, Aguero took Mario Balotelli's poked pass, his thought processes a crisp opposition to the manic atmosphere, 1 interaction with his close ft to marque the space, different to bushed goalkeeper Paddy Kenny.

It was what Aguero did - 184 times successful 275 league games for City.

'Naturally blessed finisher' - Robbie Fowler

Robbie Fowler near Liverpool for Leeds astatine the property of 26 though helium returned arsenic a 30-year-old

Harry Kane has rightly taken his spot among this elite radical of strikers arsenic grounds scorer for Spurs and present England, portion the Egyptian King Mohamed Salah overhauled Liverpool's erstwhile highest Premier League tally of 128 goals by scoring doubly successful the caller 7-0 triumph implicit Manchester United astatine Anfield.

This brings maine neatly to Robbie Fowler, the antheral whose grounds Salah overcame.

Liverpool person had a postulation of superb strikers successful the Premier League era, from Michael Owen to Fernando Torres and the flawed genius Luis Suarez, but I would contend nary were arsenic people blessed arsenic finishers arsenic Fowler.

Fowler had not adjacent played a crippled for Liverpool erstwhile past manager Graeme Souness made the boldest of claims to a radical of america sitting connected a seat astatine the aged Melwood grooming headquarters.

The shy Fowler walked past, caput down not wanting to pull the attraction of his manager oregon anyone else. Souness pointed astatine the 18-year-old with the words: "The champion finisher astatine the club."

Eyebrows were raised arsenic Ian Rush was inactive astatine Liverpool, though not successful his erstwhile pomp, but lowered soon aft erstwhile Fowler scored each 5 goals successful a 5-0 League Cup triumph implicit Fulham astatine Anfield.

Fowler won a specified 26 England caps successful the epoch of Shearer and Teddy Sheringham, scoring 183 goals successful 369 appearances for Liverpool. You felt you could blindfold Fowler anyplace connected a shot transportation and helium could archer you precisely wherever the extremity was.

'Barely had a weakness' - Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney is Manchester United's all-time apical goalscorer

Fowler had a earthy acquisition and thoroughfare contented for the crippled shared by different Scouse teenage prodigy, Wayne Rooney.

Rooney was a wild, untamed endowment erstwhile helium burst connected the country arsenic a 16-year-old for Everton with his celebrated victor against Arsenal earlier illuminating the planetary signifier with England astatine Euro 2004 successful Portugal.

In his aboriginal days astatine Everton, fewer visits to their Bellefield grooming crushed passed without idiosyncratic asking: "Have you seen him?" "Him" was Wayne Rooney. And this was erstwhile helium was 14.

Rooney had hardly a weakness, scoring a grounds 253 goals successful 559 games for United and creating countless others. Five Premier Leagues, the Champions League, the FA Cup and 3 League Cups warrant his presumption arsenic a great.

Manchester United's greats are many, including the antheral immoderate would accidental is the top of all, Cristiano Ronaldo. Forget his acrimonious departure this season. He volition ever beryllium a fable astatine Old Trafford.

Ruud van Nistelrooy was another, with a singular 150 goals successful 2019 games for United, and yet his five-year vocation astatine Old Trafford lone brought 1 rubric and 1 FA Cup, a astonishing statistic fixed his sustained, objective goalscoring.

'Quicksilver and lethal' - Andrew Cole

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Andy Cole were portion of a formidable unchangeable of strikers astatine Sir Alex Ferguson's disposal

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was the extremity poacher ultimate but Andrew Cole is still, successful my opinion, underrated.

Quicksilver and lethal successful the area, helium scored 121 goals successful 275 games for United aft scoring 68 successful conscionable 74 for Newcastle United earlier a past British grounds £6.25m move.

Unlike Van Nistelrooy, Cole got afloat worth for his goals with 5 Premier League titles, 2 FA Cups and of people the Champions League successful 1999.

Largely overlooked for England, Cole adjacent rounded disconnected his silverware postulation by scoring the winning extremity for Blackburn Rovers successful the 2002 League Cup last against Tottenham.

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