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Haaland Record Tracker
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GaudinoMotors
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He missed the list?is this the correct list? where is Sterling?
I think the list might be "strikers", so Sterling, Mahrez etc., aren't on it.is this the correct list? where is Sterling?
Obviously that doesn't make much sense in Pep World.
ok.. well it should be forwards as at least sterling played both positions... but thanks for the answerI think the list might be "strikers", so Sterling, Mahrez etc., aren't on it.
Obviously that doesn't make much sense in Pep World.
kun
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He’s not a strikeris this the correct list? where is Sterling?
kun
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Of course it makes sense. You want me to include every winger of the 21st century as well as every striker?I think the list might be "strikers", so Sterling, Mahrez etc., aren't on it.
Obviously that doesn't make much sense in Pep World.
Mahrez, Sterling, Sané, Grealish, Palmer, Foden, SWP, Milner, Nasri, Silva, Navas, Johnson, Weiss, Petrov, Riera, Musampa, Beasley, Huckerby, Poveda, Brahim, Lopes etc. etc.
Why don’t I include every midfielder too because Yaya and KDB scored a few? It’s not just from Pep’s time. I never once claimed this was every player so I don’t know why people expect that to be what it is.
I’ll put Sterling in because he played quite a bit up front. Mahrez has barely ever played up front.
I'm not being critical - and didn't realise it was a list you'd prepared.Of course it makes sense. You want me to include every winger of the 21st century as well as every striker?
Mahrez, Sterling, Sané, Grealish, Palmer, Foden, SWP, Milner, Nasri, Silva, Navas, Johnson, Weiss, Petrov, Riera, Musampa, Beasley, Huckerby, Poveda, Brahim, Lopes etc. etc.
Why don’t I include every midfielder too because Yaya and KDB scored a few? It’s not just from Pep’s time. I never once claimed this was every player so I don’t know why people expect that to be what it is.
I’ll put Sterling in because he played quite a bit up front. Mahrez has barely ever played up front.
I was just explaining why Sterling wasn't there - I could see that you'd only included strikers - and also how Pep has flipped things on the head - you'd have Sterling, De Bruyne, Mahrez all above Tevez, without any of them regularly playing as a recognised striker.
kun
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Fair enough yeah you’re rightI'm not being critical - and didn't realise it was a list you'd prepared.
I was just explaining why Sterling wasn't there - I could see that you'd only included strikers - and also how Pep has flipped things on the head - you'd have Sterling, De Bruyne, Mahrez all above Tevez, without any of them regularly playing as a recognised striker.
is this the correct list? where is Sterling?
At 11th place.
One more to reach a tally last matched 92 years ago.
A possible 11 games remaining...
Top 5 All-time - Competitive Goals in a Single Season for an English top flight team
63 - Dixie Dean - 1927/28
50 - Vic Watson - 1929/30
50 - Pongo Waring - 1930/31
49 - Erling Haaland - 2022/23 & Clive Allen - 1986/87
Just to put the first three of the above in perspective and without wanting to belittle the achievements of the players involved (Dixie Dean's in particular is an amazing feat whatever the circumstances), there was a change in the offside law in 1925. It meant that an attacking player was offside if only two opposing players, rather than the previous three, were nearer to the goal.
This resulted in a degree of chaos among most defences and all kinds of scoring records were set in the decade or slightly more that followed as teams tried to adapt to the new rules. For instance, it's far from a coincidence that City's record goal haul in the league of 108 in a 42-game season was set in 1926/27 and Tommy Johnson's current club record of 38 league goals in a season dates from 1928/29.
By the immediate pre-War seasons, things were settling down and defences had adjusted. Thus, every occasion on which a top-flight player has scored 50 goals or more in a season in all competitions fell within that period of 1925 to 1935. So did every instance bar one of a top-flight striker scoring 40 league goals in a campaign (Jimmy Greaves notching 41 for Chelsea in 1960/61 is the exception).
Haaland already looks certain to overhaul Clive Allen's post-War record and indeed to move second to Dixie Dean in the all-time list. If he can score a goal each game in the league between now and the end of the campaign, he'll have 40 in the league alone. That we're talking about him in this context shows just how phenomenal he's actually been. IMO, he deserves even wider appreciation.