Haaland celebrates hitting 100 goals in the English league | OneFootball

Manchester City reduced their gap to two points behind leaders Arsenal this Tuesday (2), after a 5-4 away victory against Fulham, in the 14th round of the Premier League, where Erling Haaland reached the milestone of 100 goals in the English Championship.

“It's a great achievement and I'm very proud. Of course, it's something grand, joining the 100-goal club. It's really cool and I'm happy,” said Haaland.

With just 111 games for City, the 25-year-old Norwegian became the fastest player to reach the 100-goal mark, breaking the previous record held by Premier League legend Alan Shearer. The former Newcastle and Blackburn Rovers player needed 124 matches to achieve the feat.

“I knew about the record, that's what I was trying to do. I try to help the team by scoring goals, that's my job,” added the Norwegian striker.

Haaland opened the scoring at Craven Cottage at 17 minutes in a day full of goals: Tijjani Reijnders (37′) and Phil Foden (44′ and 48′) scored for City, which also benefited from an own goal by Sander Berge (54′). Before this fifth goal, at the end of the first half, Fulham pulled one back through Emile Smith-Rowe (45+3′).

In the second half, the home team responded and began to believe they could equalize, reducing the deficit with goals from Nigerians Alex Iwobi (57′) and Samuel Chukwueze (72′ and 78′), but couldn't go beyond that.

With 28 points, City puts pressure on leaders Arsenal (30), who host Brentford this Wednesday.

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