{"id":505456,"date":"2025-12-03T00:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505456"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:16:19","slug":"haaland-sets-the-record-for-reaching-the-fastest-100-goals-in-the-epl","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/haaland-sets-the-record-for-reaching-the-fastest-100-goals-in-the-epl\/","title":{"rendered":"Haaland sets the record for reaching the fastest 100 goals in the EPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erling Haaland smashed Alan Shearer&#8217;s record by reaching 100 EPL goals more quickly than anyone in the league\u2019s history \u2013 doing it during his team\u2019s 5-4 victory against Fulham in London.<\/p>\n<p>The Manchester City goalscorer, who could have chosen England at the international level, has had a phenomenal campaign so far as he has already scored 20 goals in 19 matches across all tournaments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Erling Haaland, Premier League centurion. \ud83d\udc51 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pZQkfjcFOV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pZQkfjcFOV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1995942977819349105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Erling had surprisingly come into the match in London on the back of 3 straight blanks in front of goal, in losses by the Magpies and Leverkusen, and the victory vs. Leeds a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really happy with that achievement,\u201d Haaland shared after the clash. \u201cThe 100 goals are an extraordinary thing. To do it so fast makes me proud. I shared many times before \u2013 a forward for the Sky Blues must score a lot of goals. That\u2019s what they bring me here to do, and I\u2019m happy that I\u2019m doing fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haaland sets the record as he needed only 111 matches to score the hundred goals and beat Shearer\u2019s record, who achieved it in 124 matches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every Erling Haaland goal in the Premier League \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ManCity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EwFXnH7haR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EwFXnH7haR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1996007896367157281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erling Haaland smashed Alan Shearer&#8217;s record by reaching 100 EPL goals more quickly than anyone in the league\u2019s history \u2013 doing it during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505457,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17223,17183],"news_category":[136,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18121,16461],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Norwegian forward set the Premier League\u2019s 100-goal record.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505458,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505456\/revisions\/505458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505456"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505456"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}