Erling Haaland refused to reply a query on stay TV out of 'embarrassment' after the Manchester City striker broke Mohamed Salah's goalscoring file within the 3-0 win over West Ham United. The Norwegian sensation bagged his thirty fifth objective of the season within the complete win on the Etihad Stadium and he stopped wanting revealing how he would have fun his newest unimaginable milestone in his debut marketing campaign.

The 22-year-old sunk dwelling the second objective of the night time after Nathan Ake had put Premier League leaders City in entrance, earlier than Phil Foden's deflected strike rounded off an easy win for Pep Guardiola's facet.

But it was no bizarre night for Haaland, who turned the primary participant in Premier League historical past to attain 35 targets in a single marketing campaign in simply 31 appearances in his debut season. He surpassed the file held by Alan Shearer since 1994-95 in his debut season after signing from Borussia Dortmund 10 months in the past.

And when requested how he deliberate to have fun his new achievement, Haaland insisted it could be enterprise as ordinary with extra video games to play as City are nonetheless within the hunt to win the Treble.

“I'll go dwelling and play some video video games, have some meals, sleep after which tomorrow I'll are available and take into consideration Leeds. This is my life," he told Sky Sports presenter David Jones after the game.

Jones then asked Haaland to elaborate on which game he was playing, to which the Norwegian superstar blushed and replied: “I cannot say because it is too embarrassing.”

Later on, Jones brought up the topic again and asked: “Is it FIFA, Erling?” But Haaland refused to budge again, shutting him down by saying: “I cannot say.”

Jones took it in good humour and mocked Haaland before ending the interview, quipping: “I think it’s FIFA and he picks himself.”

With his record strike against West Ham, Haaland now has 51 goals this season in just 45 games and the next record he can break is Dixie Dean's all-time record of 62 goals in a single campaign.

Haaland can feasily equal or even surpass Cristiano Ronaldo's Champions League tally of 17 in Europe, with Real Madrid to come in the semi-finals. But the towering striker says he is not thinking about smashing any more records.

"I do not take into consideration this now, I'm going to sleep on this sport and I get up tomorrow and take a look at to consider getting three factors in opposition to Leeds," Haaland said.

"It is not going to be simple with the brand new supervisor [Allardyce] and every thing, however we can not preserve fascinated with these information as a result of I might be loopy in my head! So I do not consider this."