It was goal number 100 for Haaland on Tuesday, but goals 101 and 102 could have come just as easily.<\/p>\n
He hit the post in both halves during a strong attacking display as he also chipped in with two assists.<\/p>\n
Haaland leads the top flight’s scoring charts, having netted 15 times so far this season, with Brentford’s Igor Thiago the nearest challenger with 11 for the Bees.<\/p>\n
Since joining from Borussia Dortmund in 2022, Haaland has chalked up a string of feats, and to beat Shearer’s long-standing record by reaching 100 goals in only 111 games ranks highly on his list of achievements.<\/p>\n
Shearer took 124 games to reach that mark, but Haaland has a long way to go if he is to match the former England captain’s total of 260 goals in the competition that launched in 1992-93 after breaking away from the English Football League.<\/p>\n
Haaland performed a ‘robot’ celebration earlier this season, and City’s reliance on their goal machine is highlighted by the fact that he has scored 15 of his side’s 32 league goals this term.<\/p>\n
“Congratulations, it is incredible,” Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said of Haaland’s achievement.<\/p>\n
“What can I say? Today he was outstanding. He was unbelievable and got a fantastic goal.<\/p>\n
“Enjoy it, hopefully he is hungry to continue getting goals for this club.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was goal number 100 for Haaland on Tuesday, but goals 101 and 102 could have come just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-296070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}