Haaland defends a historic record in the English Premier League

INA-Agencies

Norwegian striker Erling Haaland is looking forward to defending a historic record in the English Premier League, when his team Manchester City faces its guest Southampton, today, Saturday, in the tenth stage of the “Premier League.”

According to the official account of the "Premier League" on the social networking site "Twitter", Haaland has a scoring rate of goals in the English Premier League of one goal every 48 minutes, which is the best so far in the history of the competition among players who scored more than one goal.

Haaland, 22, has performed astonishingly since his move to Manchester City during the last summer transfers from Borussia Dortmund, where he scored 19 goals and provided three assists in his first 12 games with the English team in various competitions this season.

Haaland leads the list of top scorers in the English Premier League with 14 goals, seven goals ahead of his closest rival, Tottenham striker, English international Harry Kane.

Manchester City is second in the English Premier League table with 20 points, and will temporarily rise to the top if it beats Southampton today, pending the upcoming match tomorrow, Sunday, between Arsenal, the leaders with 21 points, and Liverpool, the ninth with 10 points.

Source: agencies