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The Premier League returns this weekend with the opening fixtures of the 2022/23 marketing campaign, as England’s top-flight sides look to start the season with a bang.
After a summer season of onerous work and preparation, the division’s main names will hope for a robust begin to the season and forward of the primary fixtures we’ve appeared on the most prolific opening weekend gamers of all time.
Listed here are the Premier League gamers with probably the most opening weekend targets within the division’s historical past.
Sergio Aguero – 7
Sergio Aguero departed the Premier League because the division’s highest-ever abroad goalscorer, with seven of the Argentine’s 184 targets within the division having come on the opening weekend.
Aguero produced one of the vital memorable debut performances in Premier League historical past in the course of the 2011/12 marketing campaign, as he got here off the bench to attain twice in Manchester Metropolis’s 4-0 win over Swansea on the Etihad.
#OTD in 2011… 💙
Sergio Aguero made his Manchester Metropolis debut… scoring the primary of his 254 Metropolis targets ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/dwwROJOxo3
— Sky Sports activities Premier League (@SkySportsPL) August 15, 2020
The ahead – who scored a record-breaking 260 targets in all competitions throughout a decade with Metropolis – scored an additional 5 targets in opening weekend fixtures, netting in opposition to Newcastle in each 2013 and 2014, and in opposition to Sunderland and Brighton.
Teddy Sheringham – 7
Teddy Sheringham additionally scored seven targets on the opening weekend, together with the Premier League’s first ever televised objective as Nottingham Forest beat Liverpool 1-0 of their first fixture of the 1992/93 marketing campaign.
Sheringham moved to Tottenham quickly after that objective and had two stints with the north Londoners, along with a four-season spell at Manchester United that noticed the ahead win three league titles and the Champions League amongst his honours.
Sheringham is the Twelfth-highest goalscorer in Premier League historical past with 146 targets, whereas he holds the data because the division’s oldest outfield participant (40 years, 272 days) and the oldest goalscorer (40 years, 268 days).
Jamie Vardy – 7*
Jamie Vardy has additionally scored seven occasions within the first fixtures of a Premier League season and has netted on the opening weekend in every of the previous two campaigns.
Vardy scored the winner as Leicester beat Wolves 1-0 in 2021/22, having additionally scored twice as Brendan Rodgers’ facet thrashed West Brom 3-0 the earlier season.
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The Foxes’ ahead is one in all two energetic gamers on this listing and only one objective behind the shared divisional file, one he can be hoping to equal – or surpass – as Leicester host Brentford on August 7.
Mohamed Salah – 7*
Mohamed Salah is the second energetic participant on this listing and has additionally scored seven targets on the Premier League’s opening weekend.
Salah is one in all ten gamers to have scored a hat-trick on the Premier League’s opening weekend, having begun the 2020/21 season with a treble as Liverpool beat Leeds 4-3 at Anfield.
📊 Mohamed Salah has scored on the opening weekend for a fifth successive PL season, the first participant to take action
17-18 v Watford ⚽️
18-19 v West Ham ⚽️
19-20 v Norwich ⚽️
20-21 v Leeds ⚽️⚽️⚽️
21-22 v Norwich ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/V73IyTNejn— Sky Sports activities Statto (@SkySportsStatto) August 14, 2021
Final season, Salah scored in Liverpool’s 3-0 win in opposition to Norwich at Carrow Highway to turn out to be the primary participant in Premier League historical past to attain on 5 consecutive opening weekends.
Liverpool will face the earlier season’s Championship winners for a fourth consecutive opening weekend in 2021/22, the place Salah can be hoping to enhance his file in opposition to Fulham at Craven Cottage.
Wayne Rooney – 8
Wayne Rooney is one in all three gamers tied for probably the most opening weekend targets, having scored eight occasions within the season’s first spherical of fixtures.
Rooney scored his first opening weekend at former facet Everton in 2005/06, earlier than scoring twice because the Purple Devils thrashed Fulham to start the next season with an emphatic 5-1 win at Outdated Trafford.
Rooney additionally netted in opposition to Birmingham, West Brom, Swansea and Bournemouth on the opening weekend and ended his profession with 208 targets within the Premier League – solely Alan Shearer has ever scored extra.
The previous Manchester United ahead is the one participant to have reached 200+ targets and 100+ assists within the Premier League period.
Frank Lampard – 8
Frank Lampard additionally shares the file, with the midfielder’s frequent appearances in main goalscorer rankings a testomony to his consistency round objective.
Lampard scored a shocking 177 targets within the Premier League, making the previous Chelsea favorite the sixth-highest goalscorer within the division’s historical past.
Eight of these targets got here on the opening weekend, together with this particular strike from distance because the west Londoners beat Hull in 2013.
Frank Lampard scored 177 #PL targets, is that this one your favorite? 🤩
A gap day blockbuster from distance!#GoalOfTheDay // @ChelseaFC pic.twitter.com/T55JAVcoGQ
— Premier League (@premierleague) September 30, 2021
Lampard scored a club-record 211 targets in all competitions for Chelsea throughout a profession that noticed the previous England worldwide win 11 main honours at Stamford Bridge.
Alan Shearer – 8
Alan Shearer is the Premier League’s all-time file goalscorer and holds the joint-record for many opening weekend targets.
Shearer had a spectacular begin to his Premier League profession after becoming a member of Blackburn from Southampton for a British file charge, scoring two good targets in an exciting 3-3 draw with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.
Alan Shearer’s #PL legacy started #OnThisDay in 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣2️⃣ when he joined @Rovers
The remaining is historical past ⚽️🏆 pic.twitter.com/bqVuwb17R6
— Premier League (@premierleague) July 27, 2020
Shearer scored 112 targets in 132 league appearances for Rovers, profitable the Premier League title in 1995, earlier than becoming a member of Newcastle in a world-record deal.
The Geordie goal-machine racked up a file 206 targets for the Magpies throughout the following decade, retiring as each the membership’s and Premier League’s all-time main scorer.
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