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Erling Haaland continues to rip up the record books at Manchester City but there is one goalscoring feat he will have his eyes on.
Erling Haaland to score looks like the banker in every game the Norwegian plays at the moment. The Manchester City striker has scored in 11 of his 12 games for club and country this season, including all of his last 10.
Those 10 games have yielded 19 goals in total and a striker who rewrites the record books on a regular basis is doing so again. His hat-trick for Norway on Saturday took him to 51 goals in 46 caps and made him the fifth-fastest to a half-century of international goals in history, just edging out Pele, who took 49 games.
That's not bad company to be keeping, and the 25-year-old has looked a different beast this season, buoyed at the Etihad by leadership responsibilities and content off the pitch after the birth of his first child.
He's making goalscoring look easier than ever this season, and it's hard to envisage a team keeping him out at the moment. Having been excused from Norway's friendly with New Zealand on Tuesday, he will have his sights set on Everton this weekend and will be looking to devour the Toffees.
There aren't many Premier League records that Haaland doesn't already hold. He has scored 94 goals in 104 games in the competition since his £51million move to City. His tally of 36 in 2022/23 was a record, and he has now scored at 22 of the 23 Premier League grounds he has played at, with just Anfield to tick off the list.
Carry on at the same rate, and Haaland will eclipse Alan Shearer's competition record of 260 goals within the next five or six seasons. But there is one record he is yet to trouble, although he could be halfway there this weekend.
That is Jamie Vardy's record of scoring in 11 successive Premier League matches between August 2015 and November 2015, which itself came during Leicester City's stunning 2015/16 title success.
Vardy broke the record previously held by Ruud van Nistelrooy, who scored in 10 consecutive league games for United across the end of the 2002/03 and start of the 2003/04 seasons.
Then there are four more players who have managed a streak of goals in eight straight games, a list which features Vardy and Van Nistelrooy again, as well as Daniel Sturridge and Alexander Isak.
Haaland's best return is 'only' scoring in seven straight Premier League matches, which came in his first few months at the Etihad. He then managed six in a row between March and April 2023 and five in a row early in the 2024/25 season.
His current streak stands at five, having scored against Brighton, Manchester United, Arsenal, Burnley, and Brentford. If he nets against Everton this week, he will hit six, and although Vardy's record will still look distant, perhaps it will be coming into view.
He will then face Aston Villa away and Bournemouth at home to try and hit a personal best of scoring in eight games in a row, before an Etihad fixture with Liverpool.
It shows how impressive Vardy's feat was that if Haaland was to equal it he would only do so against Leeds on November 29, and if he was to break it that would happen on December 3 against Fulham. Those dates feel a long way away right now.
But the way Haaland has started this season, extending this streak a little further yet seems possible. He could get close at some point down the line as well, even if he suddenly draws a blank, but while every goal takes him closer to Shearer's record, he will have to start chasing down Vardy again if his current run comes to a halt.
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