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| Can Erling Haaland win the Ballon d’Or this year? Man City star hoping to break Premier League record but faces the GOAT Lionel Messi. |
The Manchester City superstar has started right where he left off last season, netting six goals in four Premier League games this season, including a hat-trick against Fulham last time out.
Haaland's latest treble doubled his tally for the new season and made him become the fastest player in Premier League history to score 50 goals contributions, in just 39 appearances.
The 23-year-old is continuing the supernatural form that inspired City to become winners of Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup treble.
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Haaland found the net a record-breaking 36 times in England's top-flight league last season in only 35 appearances.
As part of his undisputed goal-scoring power, he also scored 12 in 11 European games and three in four FA Cup matches making it 52 goals in 53 games for City in 2022/23.
But despite Haaland's amazing season putting him in contention to win the coveted Ballon d'Or, he is unlikely to be the favourite.
Who was the last Premier League player to win the Ballon d'Or?
Haaland is hoping to become the first player from England's top league to win football's greatest individual award in 15 years.
Cristiano Ronaldo remains the last player to scoop the gong for his efforts in the Premier League.
Ronaldo welcomed the first of his eventual five Ballon d'Or's during his first stay at Manchester United in 2008.
EVER since then, others have gone close with Virgil van Dijk loosing to Lionel Messi by only seven points difference in 2019.
But the Ballon d'Or has largely been dominated by Messi and Ronaldo in the past years, with the two winning all but two of the previous 14 titles.
The two players who managed to end their duopoly were both playing for Real Madrid at the time of their triumph; Luka Modric in 2018 and Karim Benzema last year.
In fact, only two players from the Premier League have claimed the Ballon d'Or since George Best in 1968.
Lot of football fans are already predicting that Lionel Messi will win it.But only the final results will show the winner at last.
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