Erling Haaland took the Bundesliga by storm. The young striker rushed forward at a scoring pace that made Jadon Sancho seem like a slowdown. Two years after the former Molde player left German football to take the throne of the Premier League, Haaland was in the history books as the fastest player to score 50 Bundesliga goals. Until Friday.
Harry Kane has since his transfer to Bayern Munich outsmarted the defenders in Germany, in his debut season the Englishman was so close, so close to Robert Lewandowski’s 41 Bundesliga goals in the same season. Lewandowski’s record was allowed to stand, Haaland’s fell on Friday.
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Then Kane hammered in a hat-trick in the win against Augsburg.
With this, the Englishman is up to 50 goals – in 43 games! That is seven games fewer than what the goal machine Haaland needed in the Dortmund shirt.
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Haaland himself has taken some of Cristiano Ronaldo’s records in the Premier League and is chasing more, now the 24-year-old understands how CR7 feels when records are erased.
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