Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy set a Premier League record when
he scored for the 11th successive game with a goal after 24 minutes
against Manchester United on Saturday Nov 28,2015 and the match ended in a 1-1 draw
Jamie Vardy surpasses Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy who scored in 10 consecutive Premier League games for United in 2003
Manchester United midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger levelled the scores with a header from inside the box just before half-time
Jamie Vardy
needs to score in his next two games to equal the all-time record of
consecutive goals scored at the top level of English football, set by
Jimmy Dunne back in 1931-32. Playing for Sheffield United, Dunne scored
12 goals in succession.
Stan Mortensen hit 15 goals in consecutive games for
Blackpool in the 1950-51 season, but he missed matches during that run
because of injury, recovering to continue scoring when he returned to
the side.
Leicester City striker
Jamie Vardy has been officially presented with his Guinness World
Records certificate on Monday Dec 07,2015 in honour of his 11 game record goal-scoring run in
the Barclays Premier League
TOP SCORERS IN CONSECUTIVE PREMIER LEAGUE FIXTURES
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) - 10 games - 2015
Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) - 10 games - 2003
Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) - 8 games - 2002
Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) - 8 games - 2014
Mark Stein (Chelsea), Ian Wright, Emmanuel Adebayor and Thierry Henry (Arsenal), Alan Shearer (Newcastle) - all 7 games
Table Standings
Jamie Vardy surpasses Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy who scored in 10 consecutive Premier League games for United in 2003
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