First, the monstrous performance in the Manchester derby, with three goals and two assists in City’s thrashing of United. Then another double in the Champions League against Copenhagen in just 45 minutes of play. Erling Haland He had another week of overwhelming numbers, which ended with another goal in a new win for Pep Guardiola’s team against Southampton. At the same time, and before United’s game against Everton’s Liverpool, the scoring drought of Cristiano Ronaldo this season in the Premier League it was increasing until it broke with the entrance of the half hour to give victory to the Red Devils. Between one phenomenon and another there were the almost inevitable comparisons based solely on numbers.
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The “defenders” of the Scandinavians pointed out three different marks: the number of hat tricks that each one has in the Premier League (three), with the difference that Ronaldo made 232 games and Haaland only eight; the 28 goals in just 22 Champions League games between Salzburg, B. Dortmund and Manchester City; and 15 goals in nine Championship games, with a run of ten consecutive games being needed to score across all competitions. The Portuguese “fan” remembered three different curiosities almost in the form of a challenge: the 18 goals scored in the first ten games of the 2014/15 season with Real Madrid (one more than the Norwegian); the record of 700 club goals sealed with Everton; and a mathematical calculation that explained that to reach CR7’s goal tally, assuming the striker no longer scored in his career, Haaland had to score 43 goals per season for the next 16 years.
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Source: Observadora
