Erling Haaland will have to wait at least another another few days to join the Premier League 100 club after he was kept off the score sheet in Manchester City’s 3-2 victory over Leeds United on Saturday.
Haaland is in a race to break Alan Shearer’s longstanding record as the fastest player to 100 goals. The Norway striker is just one shy of the century mark after 110 games — Shearer set the record in 1995 in his 124th match.
It would have been a little poetic had Haaland netted his 100th goal against Leeds — the city of his birth midway through his father, Ale Inge Haaland’s, three-year spell at the Yorkshire club.
Erling Haaland can next break the record against Fulham on Tuesday. Carl Recine/Getty Images
He still has plenty of breathing room to break Shearer’s record, although he has some way to go to clinch his ultimate scoring title: Shearer is still the league’s all-time top scorer with 260 goals.
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Phil Foden scored a stoppage-time winner to see City past Leeds in a 3-2 victory.
Struggling Leeds had remarkably fought back from 2-0 down at the interval to level and put themselves in sight of an unlikely and much-needed three points in the Premier League.
