{"id":11345,"date":"2023-11-25T23:30:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T20:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/11345\/erling-haaland-hits-50th-premier\/"},"modified":"2023-11-25T23:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T20:30:53","slug":"erling-haaland-hits-50th-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=11345","title":{"rendered":"Erling Haaland hits 50th Premier League goal, breaks record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erling Haaland hits 50th Premier League goal, breaks record\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has become the fastest player in Premier League history to reach 50 goals, breaking Andrew Cole&#8217;s previous record of 65 games.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland opened the scoring in the 27th minute of City&#8217;s Premier League match against Liverpool on Saturday to reach the milestone in his 48th match, scoring with his left foot after an assist from Nathan Ak\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2013 Ogden: <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/man\/\"   title=\"Man\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Man<\/a> City-Liverpool draw points to tight title race on the horizon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was Haaland&#8217;s 18th goal in 20 appearances in all competitions this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old heads a list of top strikers, with Alan Shearer (66), Ruud van Nistelrooy (68), Fernando Torres and Mohamed Salah (72) all behind Haaland when it comes to be the fastest to 50.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Erling Haaland celebrates his goal for Manchester City against Liverpool. <cite>Photo by DARREN STAPLES\/AFP via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s a goal Haaland has looked likely to achieve for some time given his prowess in front of goal.  His 36 goals last season, his first in the Premier League, is a record for a single campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Norway international made his debut for City after joining from Borussia Dortmund in 2022, establishing himself as a key figure in the team that won the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup last year for <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> the famous treble.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland will now chase Shearer to reach 100 goals.  The Premier League&#8217;s all-time top scorer took 124 games to reach his century.<\/p>\n<p>The match against Liverpool ended in a 1\u20131 draw after Trent Alexander-Arnold equalized in the second half.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erling Haaland hits 50th Premier League goal, breaks record\u060c Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has become the fastest player in Premier League history to reach 50 goals, breaking Andrew Cole&#8217;s previous record of 65 games. Haaland opened the scoring in the 27th minute of City&#8217;s Premier League match against Liverpool on Saturday to reach the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6446,2995,4695,2558,1268,1801,703,1639,616],"class_list":["post-11345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-50th","tag-breaks","tag-erling","tag-goal","tag-haaland","tag-hits","tag-league","tag-premier","tag-record"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11347,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345\/revisions\/11347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}