Harry Kane’s winner towards Manchester City on Sunday made him the quickest participant to achieve 200 Premier League targets.
As nicely as breaking Jimmy Greaves’ Tottenham scoring file in all competitions, Kane joined solely Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney with a double century for the reason that prime flight’s rebranding.
Here, the PA information company appears at how he compares.
Alan Shearer
260 targets, 441 appearances
The Premier League’s file scorer is a near-perfect comparability for Kane, having reached 200 targets in 306 appearances – Kane broke that file by two when he netted on Sunday.
Shearer went on to achieve 260 in 14 seasons – in addition to 23 for Southampton in what was then often called the First Division previous to 1992 – and is the one participant to attain a century of Premier League targets for 2 completely different golf equipment having finished so with Blackburn and his beloved Newcastle.
He added 64 assists and, like Kane, gained three Golden Boot awards, Shearer’s coming in successive seasons from 1994-95 to 1996-97.
The first of these gave him his finest seasonal tally – 34 targets, a Premier League file shared with Andrew Cole – whereas Shearer’s profession tally was aided by a file 56 penalties.
Wayne Rooney
208 targets, 491 appearances
Rooney spent lengthy stretches of his profession enjoying as much less of an out-and-out striker than Shearer or Kane, which means his statistical profile is barely completely different – he by no means gained a Premier League Golden Boot and took 462 matches to convey up his double-century, shortly after returning to his boyhood membership Everton.
He handed 20 league targets in a season on two events, with 26 in 2009-10 and 27 in 2011-12, and is Manchester United’s all-time file scorer with 253 targets in all competitions together with 183 of his league tally.
With 103 assists, he’s distinctive in scoring 200 targets and creating 100 within the Premier League – Ryan Giggs, Cesc Fabregas and Frank Lampard are the one different gamers with a century of assists.
Harry Kane
200 targets, 304 appearances
Aged 29 years and 6 months, Kane is greater than a yr youthful than Shearer was when he reached 200 targets so has time on his aspect as he chases the all-time file – regardless of switch hypothesis in current seasons, he instructed the Premier League’s web site upon reaching 200: “To be there now is just exciting, and I’ve got plenty of years left so hopefully there are a few more to come.”
He has added 44 assists, many in his productive partnership with Son Heung-min, and has scored 30 penalties from 34 makes an attempt.
Kane gained the Golden Boot in 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2020-21 – although in his solely 30-goal season to this point, 2017-18, he was edged out by Mohamed Salah’s 32 for Liverpool. Leicester are his favorite opponent, with 18 targets towards the Foxes, adopted by 14 towards each Arsenal and Everton.