It was meant as a taunt. “Erling Haaland, he’s scored more than you,” the Manchester City fans chorused at Molineux on Saturday. It would have felt crueller to point out that Aleksandar Mitrovic had scored twice as many goals as Wolverhampton Wanderers, that Ivan Toney, Rodrigo, Alexis Mac Allister and Wilfried Zaha have all scored more. Or, indeed, to note that every top-flight team except West Ham has.
Some of the more damning statistics may not fit easily into a chant. Kevin de Bruyne was the joint top scorer at Molineux in the Premier League last season. Since 3 April, City have scored twice as many league goals at Wolves’ historic home as Wolves themselves. On Saturday, the ersatz striker who started was Daniel Podence, whose 226 career league games have yielded just 29 goals. It works out at one every 7.79, though his ratio for Wolves, one per 8.25, is still worse.
