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Oliver Jones

Newcastle star Kieran Trippier's Premier League record even Erling Haaland can’t boast

Newcastle United defender Kieran Trippier has been one of the Magpies top performers this season and has earned himself a Premier League record that not even Manchester City striker Erling Haaland can say he has.

The 32-year-old has been instrumental in the Magpies' great start to the season as he's guided them to having the best defence in the English top-flight leaving them sitting in sixth, just four points outside of the top four.

And while the Norwegian forward is certainly on track to break all sorts of league records in the coming years, there's one right now that he doesn't own and Trippier does.

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Trippier is the only Premier League player this season to have made five WhoScored Team of the Weeks - 50% of all Team of the Weeks this season so far including this week's with a rating of 7.47.

The rest of this week's team consisted of goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga (Chelsea - 8.83); defenders Gabriel (Arsenal - 8.00), Max Kilman (Wolves - 7.40) and Ivan Perisic (Tottenham - 7.36); midfielders Bukayo Saka (Arsenal - 7.62), Mason Mount (Chelsea - 8.64), Declan Rice (West Ham - 8.03) and Phil Foden (Man City - 7.54); and forwards Harry Kane (Tottenham - 8.48) and Ivan Toney (Brentford - 8.06).

Haaland has only featured in four of the sports website's Team of the Weeks, meaning he falls one short of Trippier's tally for the season so far.

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