Haaland, Salah, Kane: The top 30 Premier League players so far according to stats

Erling Haaland is tearing the Premier League to shreds.

While nobody was under any illusion that Manchester City had signed anyone short of a phenomenon, there is always still that doubt in the back of your mind as to whether or not that quality will translate to England’s top-flight.

However, we can feel pretty certain now that Haaland won’t be following in the footsteps of Andriy Shevchenko and Radamel Falcao because he’s flown out of the blocks in sky blue this season.

Having been prematurely lambasted for a lacklustre display in the Community Shield, Haaland silenced the doubters by scoring a fabulous brace at West Ham United on his Premier League debut.

The Norwegian poacher then popped up with a goal on the road at Newcastle United, before becoming just the sixth player to ever score back-to-back hat-tricks in the English big time since its 1992 rebranding.

And not satisfied with having hit both Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest for three, Haaland elevated his record to a dizzying 10 goals in just six matches by notching a strike at Villa Park.

All in all, it’s one of the most frightening starts that any summer signing has ever made in the Premier League – and boy is that reflected in the statistics too.

Now that we’re able to come up for air after a busy weekend of action, we’ve had the chance to look at Haaland’s goal-rich start to life at the Etihad Stadium in the context of the entire division.

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To do so, we’ve turned to the average match ratings at WhoScored, which are calculated and aggregated for every Premier League player across the season based on key metrics from each of their