Erling's not too VAR away from another PL record

ERLING Haaland to score looks like the banker in every game the Norwegian plays at the moment.

- By TYRONE MARSHALL

City striker Erling Haaland scoring for Norway in the FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifier against Israel at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, Norway

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The Manchester City striker has scored in 11 of his 12 games for club and country this season, including all of his last 10.

Those 10 games have yielded 19 goals in total and a striker who rewrites the record books on a regular basis is doing so again. His hat-trick for Norway on Saturday took him to 51 goals in 46 caps and made him the fifth-fastest to a half-century of international goals in history, just edging out Pele, who took 49 games.

That's not bad company to be keeping and the 25-year-old has looked a different beast this season, buoyed at the Etihad by leadership responsibilities and content off the pitch after the birth of his first child.