Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola believes Erling Haaland will break the Premier League goalscoring record this season.
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Many have run out of superlatives to describe Haaland's start to life in a City jersey, with the Norwegian having scored in all but two games in this league campaign and not looking like he is going to stop any time soon.
The 22-year-old bagged yet another brace against Brighton Hove Albion this past weekend, taking his tally to 17 goals in 11 games for this Premier League campaign.
The Scandinavian hitman is now just six goals off the tallies produced by last season's joint EPL Golden Boot winners Mohamed Salah and Heung-min Son, having played less than a third of the games.
Bar any potential loss of form or long-term injury, his manager Guardiola believes the Norway international will definitely break the record for league goals scored in a 38-game season.
"You don't have to be a genius. If he continues with this rhythm, the average every game he is going to break the record," the Spaniard said, as per Manchester City's official website.
"But in football, maybe you score and then a few days you stop scoring, you don't know.
"He is happy when the team win and is not when we don't win.
"All the strikers I have seen in my career, like Samuel Eto'o, David Villa, Lionel Messi, [Robert] Lewandowski, Thomas Muller and Sergio Aguero, have an incredible ambition to score a lot of goals. That's normal. It has to be there."
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Salah currently holds the record for the most goals in a 38-game league season, when the Egyptian netted 32 times in the 2017/18 campaign, but Andy Cole and Alan Shearer hold the outright record with 34 goals in a 42-match campaign.
Haaland is already halfway to catching the Englishmen, having only played 11 EPL games so far, so we could witness a historic goalscoring season from one of the English top flight's newest arrivals.
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