Norwegian professional footballer and Manchester City striker, Erling Haaland netted his 35th goal to become the highest goal scorer in a premier league season, breaking the record previously held by Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole who had scored 34 goals in a premier league season.
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Despite ending the first half of Wednesday’s game goalless, City sprang back to life, opening the scoring on 50 minutes against West Ham at the Etihad Stadium.
Nathan Ake’s close-range header went low into the middle of the net to open the scoreline.
Twenty minutes later, Haaland scored his record-breaking goal to make it 2-0 for the Blues.
Phil. Foden’s shot moved past the helpless Lukasz Fabianski to make the scoreline 3-0 in favour of City.
With Haaland’s goal ratio of 1.26 per 90 minutes, there are chances that the 22-year-old has five league games remaining to extend the record-breaking tally.
Quadri Olaitan is a journalist and contributor to Freelanews.com, covering news, public affairs, and human-interest stories.
