LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester City goal machine Erling Haaland set another record on Tuesday by becoming the first Premier League player to score 45 times in a single season and the Norwegian will doubtless reach more milestones in his first campaign in England.
Haaland crowned a remarkable City display with the third goal in his side's 3-0 defeat of Bayern Munich in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.
The last English top-flight player to score more in a single season was Clive Allen for Tottenham Hotspur in 1986-87 when he struck 49 goals and that will be Haaland's next target, as will the five goals he requires to beat Alan Shearer and Andy Cole's record of 34 goals in a Premier League season. At his current rate of scoring, talk of 60 goals for the season might even seem conservative, although perhaps Lionel Messi's 73 goals for Barcelona in all competitions in 2011-12, including 50 in La Liga, might just be out of reach.
Haaland's 45th goal was a personal record, too, for the 22-year-old who scored a total of 44 in 2019-20 .
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