Norwegian striker Erling Haaland made Premier League historical past on Tuesday evening to change into the quickest participant ever to attain 100 targets within the competitors throughout Manchester Metropolis’s dramatic 5–4 win over Fulham at Craven Cottage.
Haaland hit his historic century in simply 111 Premier League appearances, firing dwelling within the seventeenth minute from a Jeremy Doku cross. He shattered the earlier document held by Alan Shearer, who wanted 124 matches to succeed in the identical milestone.
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The aim additionally ended a three-game scoring drought and marked Haaland’s fifteenth strike in 14 league appearances this season.
After Haaland opened the floodgates, Phil Foden struck twice as Metropolis surged right into a commanding 5–1 lead.
However Fulham mounted a livid late rally, scoring three second-half targets and practically finishing a shocking comeback, solely to be denied by Josko Gvardiol’s essential last-second goal-line clearance from Josh King’s effort.
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The victory strikes second-placed Manchester Metropolis inside two factors of leaders Arsenal, who’ve a sport in hand.
Metropolis’s nineteenth straight win over Fulham extends the longest profitable streak by one English membership over one other in aggressive historical past. Nonetheless, Pep Guardiola shall be involved by his facet’s recurring defensive lapses, having blown leads in successive video games.
Haaland, who signed from Borussia Dortmund in 2022, continues to cement his legacy in England. Whereas he nonetheless trails Alan Shearer’s all-time Premier League document of 260 targets, the 25-year-old’s blistering tempo suggests no milestone is out of attain.
