Neymar, Haaland, Lewandowski: Europe's 20 most lethal finishers so far

Erling Haaland has caused utter mayhem for Manchester City in the Premier League.

Just as soon as there were murmurs about whether or not the Norwegian would succeed in English football after a poor performance in the Community Shield, they were emphatically ended with a goal rush which has taken the division by storm.

In fact, there’s good reason to think that every record in the book could be blown out of the water by the time that Haaland draws the curtains on his debut season at the Etihad Stadium.

Assuming that he can stay fit throughout the year, Haaland could well surpass Mohamed Salah’s goalscoring record for a 38-game Premier League season based on the evidence of opening up with 11 strikes in just seven outings.

The lethal 22-year-old has plundered hat-tricks against Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest, notching a brace at West Ham United and firing goals past Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

As such, it will come as no surprise to learn that the goalscoring shockwaves that Haaland is creating on English soil are very much reverberating around the continent.

In fact, such has been the astonishing nature of Haaland’s start to life in England that we couldn’t help wondering exactly how his lethal finishing compared to other goalscorers on the continent as we all take stock going into the international break.

To find out, we turned to the data gurus over at FBref and sorted every player to have appeared in Europe’s top five leagues this season by their goals per shot rate.

In other words, how many goals do they score for each shot they take? It’s a statistic which duly illustrates the most ruthless finishers of all by demonstrating who scores from their shots most often.

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