Erling Haaland breaks scoring record, City keeps pace with Arsenal

Erling Haaland has already taken one of Sergio Agueros scoring records for Manchester CityAt this rate surely more will fallWith one of Citys goals in a routine 41 win at Bournemouth on Saturday Haaland made it 27 for the season in the English Premier League Thats more than any player has scored in a single campaign for City since the league started in 1992Aguero had the previous highest total of 26 in 201415 part of his record alltime haul of 260 for City in all competitionsThe scary thing about Haaland is that he still has 13 matches remaining in the league He is closing in on Liverpool forward Mohamed Salahs record haul of 32 in a 38game season as well as the 34 of Andy Cole and Alan Shearer achieved back when there were 42 games per seasonHaaland wont score many easier goals than his finish from three meters at Vitality Stadium that helped City ease to a win to keep on the shoulder of Arsenal in the title raceArsenal earlier won at Leicester 10 a result that was more resounding than the scoreline suggestedArsenal stayed two points clear of secondplaced City with a game to spareThere was more movement at the bottom of the standings with victories for Leeds and West Ham lifting both teams out of the relegation zone and dropping Everton and Bournemouth into itEASY FOR ARSENALArsenal looks to have gotten over its blipSince collecting one point from a threegame stretch that let City back into the title race Arsenal has gained backtoback wins on the road with manager Mikel Arteta saying the team has gone back to basicsGabriel Martinelli scored the 46thminute winner at King Power Stadium poking in a finish after running onto Leandro Trossards pass Trossard and Bukayo Saka had goals disallowed either side of Martinellis strikeIt built on the 42 win at Aston Villa last weekAlso readArsenal back on top as Man City held to draw in EPLSometimes the wave is created very far from the beach Arteta said Then its too late to avoid what is going to happen We had to improve on those things and today weve done that really wellEASIER FOR CITYHaaland scored either side of Julian Alvarez and Phil Foden with an owngoal by Chris Mepham wrapping up the scoring for City against BournemouthIt is six consecutive matches without a clean sheet for Pep Guardiolas team however after Jefferson Lermas 83rdminute strike for the hostsLIVERPOOL HELDAfter conceding five goals to Real Madrid in the Champions League in midweek Liverpool at least tightened up at the back in a 00 draw at Crystal PalaceJurgen Klopps team was short of attacking inspiration however with Darwin Nunez out injured Mohamed Salah curled a shot against the crossbar in a game of few real chances at Selhurst ParkLiverpool moved up one place to seventh and is six points off the Champions League qualification positions with a game in handWINNING STARTJavi Gracia launched his Leeds reign with a 10 win over Southampton in a match between teams who started as the bottom twoJunior Firpo scored in the 77th minute to secure Leeds first win since Dec 26 Leeds jumped two places and out of the relegation zone leaving Southampton rooted to last place and four points adrift of safetyBournemouth is in nexttolast place and on the same number of points as Everton which was beaten at home by Aston Villa 20 thanks to goals by Ollie Watkins who has scored in five straight games and Emi BuendiaWest Ham started the day in thirdtolast place but swept past Nottingham Forest with a 40 thrashingAll of the goals came in the final 20 minutes with Danny Ings scoring twice before Declan Rice and Michail Antonio added othersThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever