Haaland breaks Rooney’s record from 12 years ago

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Manchester City striker Erling Haaland broke Wayne Rooney’s 12-year-old scoring record after netting in Saturday’s 2-1 home win over Brentford.

    The visitors took the lead in the opening minute of the game through Yohan Wissa, but the Norwegian star scored twice in the 20th and 32nd minutes to help the team overcome and make it four straight Premier League wins สมัคร ufabet.

    With this performance, Haaland has now scored 9 goals in the first 4 games of the season, breaking Rooney’s record of 8 goals in the first 4 games of the 2011/12 season.

    It is another record for Haaland after becoming the fastest player to reach 50 goals, taking only 48 games, surpassing Andy Cole (65 games), Alan Shearer (66 games), Ruud van Nistelrooy (68 games) and Mohamed Salah and Fernando Torres (72 games).

    He also became the player with the highest scorer in a Premier League season with 36 goals from 35 games, overtaking the record of Andy Cole and Alan Shearer (34 goals) who both played 42 games. With this performance, Haaland has now scored 9 goals in the first 4 games of the season, breaking Rooney’s record of 8 goals in the first 4 games of the 2011/12 season.