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5 Cristiano Ronaldo records that Erling Haaland is projected to obliterate

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1 year ago

September 22, 2024

Cristiano Ronaldo is undoubtedly the greatest goalscorer of the modern generation, but Erling Haaland is already closing in on several of his records.

The Manchester City forward has been in relentless form this season and if he maintains his current scoring rate, he’ll break all sorts of records by the time he retires.

We’ve taken a look at some of Ronaldo’s records and worked out how long it will take Haaland to break them.

Ronaldo’s Premier League tally

As of writing, Haaland is only 31 goals away from matching Ronaldo’s tally of 103 Premier League goals. Unsurprisingly, Haaland has been scoring at a far greater rate in England than his Portuguese counterpart.

Of course, Ronaldo started his Premier League career as an out-and-out winger and because of this, he didn’t register a double-figure scoring campaign until his fourth season in England.

If Haaland continues to average a Premier League goal every 79.1 minutes, it will only take him 28 more matches to reach Ronaldo’s tally of 103 goals. If he manages to do that, he’ll have matched CR7’s entire Premier League goal catalogue in 138 fewer matches.

Ronaldo’s UCL record

When it comes to European nights, no one does it better than CR7. However, his record of 140 Champions League goals could be in jeopardy.

Haaland is currently scoring a UCL goal every 77.5 minutes. Comparatively, Ronaldo averaged a goal every 113.89 in the competition.

Of course, the Man City forward still has a long way to go before he closes in on Ronaldo’s tally, but those statistics do make for an interesting read.

If the Norwegian forward continues to score at his current rate in the UCL, it will take him 86 more games to match Ronaldo’s tally in Europe.

Most goals in a single UCL campaign

Given the new Champions League format will involve extra matches being played, Haaland stands an even greater chance of breaking Ronaldo’s record of the most goals scored in a single UCL campaign.

CR7 managed to bag 17 goals in the 2013-14 Champions League, but Haaland now stands a great chance of breaking that record.

Successful clubs in the Champions League will now play a maximum of 17 matches, which is up from the maximum of 13 matches in the previous layout of the tournament.

Up until this point, Haaland’s most prolific European campaign came back in 2022-23 as he scored 12 goals. However, with more games now being introduced, he now stands a great chance of breaking Ronaldo’s long-standing record.

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Faster to 300 career goals

As of writing, Haaland is only 14 goals away from scoring his 300th career goal. At the rate he’s been scoring in 2024-25, he’s expected to hit the 300-goal landmark in his next 10 matches. If he manages to achieve that, he will have reached 300 career goals in just 349 matches for club and country.

For context, it took Ronaldo 554 matches until he reached 300 career goals.

Record number of hat-tricks

It will take some effort to break Ronaldo’s hat-trick record, but if anyone is capable of doing it, Haaland is surely the man.

As of writing, Ronaldo has scored 66 career hat-tricks in 1,238 appearances whereas Haaland has scored 24 hat-tricks in 339 appearances.

That means on average, Ronaldo scores a hat-trick every 18.7 games, while Haaland scores a hat-trick every 14.1 matches. It therefore stands to reason that if Haaland prolongs his career for as long as Ronaldo, he stands a great chance of surpassing his hat-trick record.

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EPL: Fulham must move on from defeat to Manchester City — Iwobi

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2 days ago

December 3, 2025

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Alex Iwobi says Fulham must stay positive despite their 5-4 defeat to Manchester City at Craven Cottage on Tuesday.

Marco Silva’s side put up a spirited display in the encounter, and were unlucky not to get at least one point.

Iwobi started the fight back by scoring the second goal for Fulham early in the second half.

The versatile midfielder’s compatriot, Samuel Chukwueze then rose from the bench to score two more goals for the Cottagers.

Manchester City, however, held on to go home with maximum points.

Iwobi stated that they deserved more from the game.

“I feel disappointed because we didn’t get anything out of the fighting spirit that we showed, but I think we have to take the positivity from the game,” Iwobi told the club’s official website.

Fulham will be away to Crystal Palace in their next Premier League game on Sunday.

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EPL: Guardiola names team that impresses him everyday

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2 days ago

December 3, 2025

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Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola has named the Premier League club that has impressed him so much this season.

The Spaniard said that Enzo Maresca’s side have really impressed him with the improvement they make everyday.

Speaking after Manchester City beat Fulham 5-4 in the Premier League on Tuesday night, Guardiola pointed out that a team must remain consistent to win the title.

Pep Guardiola’s side closed the gap at the top of the Premier League to just two points behind Arsenal with the victory over Fulham, but the Gunners could maintain their five points lead with a win over Brentford on Wednesday night.

“Chelsea impresses me more and more every day with Enzo [Maresca], but it’s long,” he told reporters after the win.

“Premier League is so long, many things will happen. We won six Premier Leagues, four or five when we in December, January or February we were behind.

“The team who wins the Premier League is the team who grows during the months and this is what we try to do. No injuries, it’s so long.

“But at the same time, if we push, we will be better and push ourselves and control the situations better, the emotions and we will see what happens.”

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Outrage As ‘Biological Male’ Wins World’s Strongest Woman Event in Texas (Photos)

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1 week ago

November 26, 2025

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The 2025 World’s Strongest Woman final has sparked outrage after an alleged transgender athlete won gold.

American Jammie Booker, who is accused of being a biological male, beat Great Britain’s Andrea Thompson to victory at the event in Arlington, Texas.

According to Mail Online, Thompson walked off the podium, appearing to say ‘this is bulls***,’ while Booker celebrated. The Brit has since been crowned the ‘true World’s Strongest Woman’ by her coach and some of her peers.

Rebecca Roberts, a three-time winner of World’s Strongest Woman, has sensationally claimed that no one – not even the organizers – knew about Booker’s background.

Details on the American are not clear, but the publication sighted a YouTube video – uploaded to what appears to be Booker’s YouTube channel in September 2017, with Booker saying: ‘Everyone is dying to tell their own story and I am obviously no exception to that.

‘I’m 21-year-old trans woman with a history of abuse, struggling to stay true to herself while under the rule of her religious parents.’

On Monday night, Roberts posted a picture on Instagram that read ‘Protect Women’s Sports.’ She wrote alongside the picture: ‘I hold no hate toward transgender people. Everyone deserves dignity, respect, and the freedom to live their truth.

But I cannot stay silent about something that threatens the fairness and future of women’s strength sports. Transgender women, people born male, should not be competing in the women’s category.

This isn’t about identity. It isn’t about politics. It’s about the undeniable physical differences that exist in strength-based sports… differences that don’t disappear, and that matter more here than almost anywhere else. Women’s categories were created for a reason, and if we lose that, we lose the foundation of our sport.

‘What happened this weekend wasn’t transparent. None of us knew. Not even the organisers knew. And when fairness is taken by surprise, trust in the sport begins to crack.

‘My message is simple. Trans people belong in sport, but women’s divisions must remain biologically born female-only.

‘I love this sport. I have given my life to it. And I won’t ignore something that could quietly change it forever. Congratulations to @andreathompson_strongwoman… the true World’s Strongest Woman 2025’