{"id":326904,"date":"2025-12-02T23:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326904\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:11:07","slug":"man-citys-erling-haaland-breaks-alan-shearer-record-with-100th-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326904\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City’s Erling Haaland breaks Alan Shearer record with 100th goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erling Haaland<\/a> became the fastest player to join the Premier League<\/a> 100 goals club with his 17th-minute strike in Manchester City<\/a>‘s wild 5-4 win over Fulham on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

City looked to be cruising to victory after going up 3-0 early in the match and then leading 5-1 in the second half before an incredible rally by Fulham fell short.<\/p>\n

Haaland broke Alan Shearer’s long-standing record, scoring his 100th Premier League goal in just his 111th appearance. Shearer set the record in 1995 in his 124th match.<\/p>\n

The Norway international’s milestone Tuesday is just the latest Premier League record he has broken since he joined City in July 2022.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s strike meant he surpassed a host of Premier League legends in the race to 100 goals, including Thierry Henry (141 games), Sergio Ag\u00fcero (147 games) and Liverpool<\/a> rival Mohamed Salah<\/a> (162 games).<\/p>\n

Haaland still has a way to go to break the Premier League’s ultimate goal-scoring record, though. Shearer is still the league’s career top scorer with 260 goals, which he hit during stints with Blackburn and Newcastle between 1992 and 2006.<\/p>\n

Erling Haaland has scored 100 Premier League goals.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

Haaland’s debut season with City brought a record 36 Premier League goals, and he collected a pair of Golden Boots at the earliest opportunity with 27 in 2023-24.<\/p>\n

He scored 22 last season and so far has 15 in 14 appearances this time around, three clear of the pack as he chases his third top-scorer accolade.<\/p>\n

Wolves are his favourite opponent, with 10 goals in six appearances including three and then four in his first two Etihad Stadium meetings with the Black Country club.<\/p>\n

He has nine goals against West Ham and eight against Manchester United, in six games apiece. Tuesday’s goal was his seventh in as many games against the Cottagers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erling Haaland became the fastest player to join the Premier League 100 goals club with his 17th-minute strike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-326904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}