Man City vs. Brighton: Erling Haaland could make unwanted Premier League history in unusual fashion

Erling Haaland could acceptable an antithetic Premier League grounds erstwhile Manchester City look Brighton & Hove Albion astatine the Etihad Stadium connected Saturday afternoon.

The Citizens are preparing for their 2nd location crippled successful conscionable 4 days against the Seagulls aft winning connected penalties successful their EFL Cup fourth-round necktie connected Wednesday night.

Haaland was among 5 elder stars who were rested for that game, and aft delivering a affirmative wounded update connected Friday, manager Enzo Maresca is expected to revert to a beardown lineup including Man City’s No.9.

Citizens supporters are keen to spot the instrumentality of Haaland who has made a prolific commencement to the 2026-27 campaign, scoring 13 goals successful conscionable 11 appearances crossed each competitions.

Nine of those strikes person travel successful 8 Premier League matches this word to unsurprisingly enactment the three-time Golden Boot victor astatine the apical of the scoring charts, already 3 wide of his nearest challenger Alexander Isak (six).

Haaland has breached a plethora of Premier League scoring records since arriving successful England successful the summertime of 2022, but the Norwegian could find himself mounting a wholly unique, unwanted milestone this weekend.

Haaland retired to debar antithetic Premier League grounds against Brighton

Haaland boasts a beardown idiosyncratic scoring grounds against Brighton, having recovered the nett 7 times successful arsenic galore Premier League appearances, scoring successful each 4 location games.

The 26-year-old has scored successful each of his past 4 Premier League meetings with the Seagulls, but helium has not been connected the winning broadside successful immoderate of those matches (D2 L2).

Haaland volition go the archetypal subordinate successful Premier League past to people successful 5 successive games against a azygous hostile and neglect to triumph should helium find the nett connected Saturday and City gully oregon suffer to Brighton.

The striker is presently 1 of 3 players to bash truthful aft 4 Premier League games on with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink against Manchester United (November 1998 to February 2001) and Charlie Austin against Arsenal (December 2014 to April 2018).

Across each competitions, Haaland has scored 175 goals successful 209 games for Man City and is conscionable 2 goals down nine fable Eric Brook (177), who sits 2nd connected the club’s all-time top-scorer charts – Sergio Aguero is apical with 260 goals.

Man City volition anticipation to person Haaland firing connected each cylinders connected Saturday, arsenic they endeavour to bounce backmost from a 2-1 nonaccomplishment astatine Aston Villa past play and support their presumption astatine the apical of the table with triumph implicit third-placed Brighton.