Records keep tumbling for Manchester City superstar Erling Haaland

Erling Haaland’s latest hat-trick broke two Premier League records and left him firmly on course for several more with Manchester City.

Haaland is the first player ever to score hat-tricks in three successive Premier League home games and shattered the mark for the quickest to reach three trebles in the competition.

Here, the PA news agency takes a look at the Norwegian’s achievements so far and what could be still to come.

.@ErlingHaaland's third hat-trick of the season! ✨#ManCity pic.twitter.com/KuVlmUz0p6

— Manchester City (@ManCity) October 2, 2022

Haaland has three hat-tricks in his first eight Premier League appearances, a truly staggering improvement on the previous record.

Before Haaland, the quickest player to a treble-treble was Michael Owen in 48 games – fully six times as many as City’s new superstar.

“He only just beat me!” Owen quipped on the Premier League’s in-house video channel.

Alan Shearer’s record of five hat-tricks in a Premier League season is already well in Haaland’s sights, while former City striker Sergio Aguero holds the record of 12 in total.

Shearer, Aguero, Andy Cole, Dimitar Berbatov and Jermain Defoe share the record of five goals in a game. Haaland has never achieved that in any competition but the 22-year-old’s day could certainly come.

Speaking on the same Premier League broadcast as Owen, former City winger Shaun Wright-Phillips tipped Haaland to “fly past” Mohamed Salah’s record of 32 goals in a 38-game Premier League season.

At his current rate of 1.75 goals per appearance he is on track to reach that mark inside 19 games – the midpoint of the season, against Wolves on January 21, should he remain ever-present until then.

He would then hit the Premier League record of 34, set in