A league like the Premier League sometimes requires a period of adaptation. The English league is the most demanding in the world for many players, but not for Erling Haaland. In the season of his debut on the islands, the Norwegian striker has broken countless goalscoring records, has been proclaimed champion of the English league with Manchester City and, in the absence of the last day of the 2022/2023 league championship being played , the Premier League has awarded him the ‘Best Player of the Season’ award.
There were many expectations placed on the ‘9′ of the citizens, and has overcome them all. With profit. In 35 Premier League games played, Erling Haaland has scored more goals (36) than games. The same thing that happens if we extrapolate it to all competitions: 52 goals in 51 games. Although he has gone three games without scoring, which for many could be a ‘crisis’ for Erling Haaland, the streak of six consecutive games seeing the goal during the months of March and April allowed him to beat the marks of Andy Cole and Alan Shearer and establish himself, alone, as the player with the most goals in a single season of the Premier League era.
To the more than 50 goals that he has scored this season, we must add nine assists, and the thing is that the Norwegian continues to evolve, led by Pep Guardiola, towards an increasingly complete striker. More lethal. Although the other candidates for the award (Kevin de Bruyne, Erling Haaland, Harry Kane, Martin Ødegaard, Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Kieran Trippier) had done enough to win it, even in a league without Erling Haaland they could have won it, the arrival of cyborg England has broken all schemes.