Haaland breaks Salah’s Premier League club record with his goal against Bayern
Manchester City Erling Haaland broke yet another scoring record with his goal against Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinal tie on Tuesday.
His strike in the 76th minute was his 45th goal of the season, eclipsing Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah’s record (44) for most goals by a Premier League club player in a single campaign (2017-18).
Remarkably the 22-year-old Norwegian is only playing in his first season in England and has potentially 15 games left to add to his tally.
Halaand Breaks Salah’s record of most goals
The broader picture for Guardiola and his players after a ninth consecutive win in all competitions is that the treble could be on. City has control of their destiny in the title race after Arsenal’s draw at liverpool on Sunday and they have an FA Cup semi-final against Sheffield United to come.
But it is the Champions League that they most want and this was a display to justify the pre-match assessment of Tuchel, who had described City as Europe’s “gold standard”.
It was easy to think that Tuchel’s narrative arc could be irresistible. He had derailed City in the 2021 final of this competition, having gone to Chelsea in mid-season, which is what he has just done at Bayern. To Guardiola, Tuchel had to feel like a ghost. Yet Guardiola’s insistence was not mere fighting talk.It is City’s 12th consecutive season in the Champions League and, under Guardiola in particular, they seem to have found new and increasingly painful ways to fall short of the ultimate prize.
But as they subjected Bayern Munich to a hugely uncomfortable experience towards the end of this quarter-final, first leg, it was easy for the club’s fans to dream. This was Bayern, the six-times winners, the perennial Bundesliga champions, reduced to a wreck.
