How Haaland has demolished the Premier League
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Manchester City’s Erling Haaland has made history scoring his 50th goal of the season on Sunday - the most goals by a top-flight player for 92 years.
How has manager Pep Guardiola got the best out of him? How can City look to ensure he stays for as long as possible? Where does this season rank him in terms of the greatest of Premier League strikers?
Joining Ian Irving to discuss the goalscoring heroics of Erling Haaland we have The Athletic’s Man City writer Sam Lee as well as Jack Pitt-Brooke…
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.4 | So Manchester City's Erling Harland has made history scoring his 50th goal of the season on Sunday, |
| 0:09.1 | the most goals scored by a top flight player for 92 years. |
| 0:13.2 | How has manager Petc Guadiola got the best out of him? |
| 0:15.5 | How can City look to ensure he stays for as long as possible? |
| 0:19.1 | And where does this season rank him in terms of |
| 0:21.7 | the greatest strikers in the Premier League? I'm Ian Irving, and this is the Athletic |
| 0:26.2 | Football Podcast. |
| 0:37.1 | This is Harland |
| 0:39.3 | And this is history |
| 0:41.3 | Well I knew that I'm not even Winston Churchill was Prime Minister |
| 0:51.3 | The record today Erling broke. |
| 0:59.0 | Big broad shoulders. |
| 1:00.8 | His moment. |
| 1:03.1 | Announcing Erland Holland! |
| 1:05.8 | We are in the presence |
| 1:07.4 | of goal-scoring greatness. |
| 1:10.1 | There would appear to be no limits to what this man may go on to achieve in Sky Blue. |
| 1:24.3 | Okay then joining us to discuss the goal scoring heroics of Erling Harland. We have the Athletics, |
| 1:28.9 | Manchester City writer Sam Lee, as well as Jack Pitt Brook. Gentlemen, welcome. First of all, |
| 1:34.1 | hands up, who'd heard of Pongo wearing before this week? No hands up. Who's heard of Pongo |
| 1:40.4 | wearing now? Only in the context of people saying, like people comparing him to Erling Harland. |
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