Guardiola is confident Haaland would break Mohamed Salah's record

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has backed forward Erling Haaland to break the record for goals scored in a single Premier League season. Guardiola is confident that the Norwegian star will break the record for the most Premier League goals in one season, the number recorded in the name of the Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, the Liverpool striker. With 17 in the Premier League already, Haaland is now over halfway to Mohamed Salah’s record of 32 goals in a 38-game season. Scorers of 34 goals in a 22-team division, Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole, must fear their tallies may be eclipsed too. “We don’t have to be a genius, if he continues in this rhythm, with the average every game, he’s going to break the record, definitely. But in football, maybe you score and in a few days stop scoring. I don’t know. “I didn’t speak with him, I think he’s happy when the team wins and when they not lose. All strikers I have seen in my career, Samuel Eto’o, Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Muller, and Sergio Aguero, all have the incredible ambition to score goals. It’s normal. He has to be like that.” It is not often Guardiola comes out with such a statement and he then checked back on himself: ‘But in football, maybe you stop to score, I don’t know.’ Mohamed Salah holds the Premier League record and netted 32 goals in 38 EPL games in his first season with the Reds. Halland is only 6 goals the number that Salah and Son Heung-min scored in the league last season, and he is still more than two-thirds of the season.