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Whatever way you slice it, Erling Haaland is having an epic debut season in English football having already rattled away 42 goals in his first 36 games for Manchester City since his arrival last June.
In the Premier League alone, the Norwegian powerhouse has notched 28 goals in 26 games -- a hefty tally that has already eclipsed those mustered by each of the league's previous five Golden Boot winners.
Haaland, 22, is firmly on course to equal or better the Premier League record for most goals scored in a single season. That record has stood for almost 30 years since Andy Cole (Newcastle United, 1993-94) and Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers, 1994-95) both scored 34 goals during successive 42-game campaigns.
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However, while Haaland is leading the race for the European Golden Shoe as the top marksman across Europe's elite divisions, he isn't entirely out in front on his own when it comes to impressive goal-scoring endeavours this season.
His rate of 1.07 league goals per game this season is undeniably impressive, but it is not the 2022-23 campaign's most prolific in either Europe's top-flight leagues or English football.
So who is Erling Haaland being out-Haalanded by? Here we examine the league goal tallies and the goal-to-game rates of the sharpest strikers (with a minimum of 10 goals scored this season) to prove that the City star is only human.
Europe's top divisionsHaving scoured the goal scorers' charts across every top-flight league in Europe, here are the top 10 strikers this season as ranked by their goals-per-game averages.
Haaland is firmly at the summit when it comes to his outright goal tally, but the Manchester City colossus is technically being outdone by a 33-year-old journeyman who previously mustered just 11 goals in 107 appearances in the Premier League earlier in his career.