Pep Guardiola has hailed his superstar striker Erling Haaland as the Norwegian targets to hit 100 club goals. Guardiola hails striker as he targets 100 club goals.
The young striker started incredibly well this season as Manchester city begin their UEFA Champions league campaign against internazionale on Wednesday evening.
The prolific 24-year-old has already produced a staggering nine goals in four premier league matches which included two successive hat-tricks.
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Guardiola impressed by Erling Haaland’s contribution to the team.
Haaland has impressed Manchester city manager Pep Guardiola with his electrifying start to the season with pep saying “the impact has been huge” since he arrived at the club.
Pep was asked about the influence Haaland will have ahead of city’s clash with internazionale in the UEFA champions league on Wednesday.
He did not hold back when describing how big of an impact the striker has had since he joined the club from Borussia Dortmund in 2022.
Haaland is now targeting his 100th goal for the club his father also represented, having already bagged 99 strikes in 103 appearances and Guardiola did not understate his contribution.
“The impact has been huge, on and off the pitch, and especially inside the locker room, so it is great”.
“He would love to be in an international competition for Norway”, he added. “I am pretty sure it is a dream for him, and he will do everything to try and achieve it”.
Haaland’s start to season with a back-to-back hat-tricks.
Haaland is a type of player that scores Goals fun, city made it three wins in a role from three in the premier league with a 3-1 victory against West Ham United at London stadium.
Erling Haaland made it back-to-back premier league hat-tricks as his stunning start to the season continued.
The win against West Ham moves Guardiola’s side at the top of the table and has remain there since then.
Erling Haaland scored his second Hat-trick in a row as Manchester city continues their unbeaten start to the season.
The striker now averages a goal a game since his move to city from Borrussia Dortmund two years ago.
With the way the team is playing and the way Haaland is always hungry for goals, they will be many more goals and hat-tricks to be bagged this season.
Since his arrival at city he has taken possession of the Golden boot known as the highest goal scorer award.
He scored most goals to win the Golden boot, with 36 goals in 2022-23. With 35 games played in the season, he also recorded the highest goals-to-games ratio to win the award.
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Haaland has currently scored more goals than every other team in the premier league so far.
By scoring nine goals in his first five premier league games in 2022/23 season, Haaland finally knocked Micky Quinn’s name out of the record books.
He broke the record for most goals in a single premier league season In his debut campaign for city, scoring 36 goals in 35 appearances, to beat Andy Cole and Alan Shearer.
This season Haaland set a new record for the most goals scored in the first three games of a premier league season the first four games of a premier league season. Equaling his own record for most goals scored in the first five games of a premier league season.
Haaland was already one of only six players to score back-to-back premier league hat-tricks and now has done it twice.
But he has not yet matched Harry Kane in this particular field of excellence. Kane has only done it twice, but did so in the year after scoring seven goals across the final two games of 2016/17 against Leicester city and Hull city before netting hat-tricks in successive games against Burnley and Southampton either side of Christmas day seven months later.
But Haaland has scored eight premier League hat-tricks, the same number as Harry kane, Thiery Henry and Michael Owen and more than absolutely everyone else.
Haaland’s performances since arrival at city.
Erling Braut Haaland is well known as Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for premier league club Manchester City and the Norway national team.
He is known for his speed, strength, positioning, and finishing inside the box. Just in his arrival to the premier league he broke the record for the most goals scored by a player in a single season with 36 goals.
He arrived at Manchester city in may 10th 2022, and he scored twice on his league debut against West Ham.
On September he made his champions league debut for city, getting a brace against Sevilla and becoming the first player to score 25 goals in their first 20 Champions league appearances.
He as well became the first player in the premier league history to score a hat-trick in three successive home games during city’s 6-3 derby win against Manchester United with additional two assists.
Haaland started the second season of his career at city with high spirit, scoring a brace in a 3-0 away win against newly promoted team Burnley.
He was named the PFA players’ player of the year, having earlier been included in the PFA team of the year for the premier league.
He played pivotal role to helping City lift the first champions league title and first champions league title of his career scoring multiple goals and hat-tricks to their glory
Very good with scoring penalty shootouts, Erling Haalaand has only missed one penalty against Bayern in the champions league last two seasons and has successfully scored the rest.
Early this season he netted his first hat-trick of the season with the help a penalty in a 4-1 victory against newly promoted Ipswich Town, his seventh premier league hat-trick.
In the following match against west Ham united, he scored another hat-trick in 3-1 away victory. And this hat-trick against West Ham helped city surpass Liverpool as the club with the most Hat-tricks in the premier league.
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Just last week Erling Haaland scored another two goals in a 2-1 victory over Brentford, helping him eclipse Wayne Rooney’s eight goals in the first four matches of the 2011-12 season.
