A staggering statistic highlighting the ongoing brilliance of Norway and Manchester City star Erling Haaland on the international front has come to the fore on Saturday.
This comes owing to the attacker’s latest exploits in the colours of Norway.
Haaland was for his part afforded a starting berth this afternoon, in his country’s World Cup qualifying meeting with Israel.
And en route to an eventual 5-0 rout, the former Borussia Dortmund standout proved himself the star of the show.
This came by way of a hat-trick, to make it a frankly ridiculous eight goals in his last two international appearances.
In the process, Haaland took his tally for Norway beyond the half-century mark.
And he has done so at a remarkable goalscoring rate.
As revealed by statisticians Opta, the following world-class goalscorers took the attached number of games to hit the 50-goal mark for their respective nations:
- Erling Haaland – 46
- Harry Kane – 71
- Neymar – 74
- Kylian Mbappé – 90
- Robert Lewandowski – 90
- Lionel Messi – 107
- Cristiano Ronaldo – 114
Conor Laird – GSFN
