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Alexander Isak 16/1 to break Jamie Vardy's Premier League record

With Alexander Isak scoring in an eighth consecutive Premier League game with his brace against Wolves, we’ve priced up the Newcastle forward at 11/2 to match Jamie Vardy’s record and 16/1 to break it.

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Vardy broke his current manager Ruud van Nistelrooy's record against Van Nistelrooy's old club Manchester United back in 2015, scoring in 11 consecutive Premier League games, but Isak is closing in fast.

After a quiet start to the campaign with one goal in his first six outings, Isak has burst into life in recent weeks, with only Mohamed Salah and Erling Haaland above him in the goalscoring charts.

Starting his run with a goal against Liverpool at the start of December, Isak has since scored against Brentford and Leicester, bagging a hat-trick against Ipswich, and going on to score against Aston Villa, Manchester United and Tottenham before his midweek brace against Wolves.

bet365’s Sports and Trading expert Steve Freeth said: “Alexander Isak has now surpassed Alan Shearer and Joe Willock having scored in eight successive Premier League games for Newcastle and we’re looking at whether the super Swede can match and then surpass Jamie Vardy’s record of 11.

“The next three fixtures include two more home games against Bournemouth and Fulham, plus Southampton away.

"We reassessed the prices after yet another masterclass from Isak and with everything he touches turning to goals right now he’s into 11/2 to bag in the next three and 16/1 for him to break Vardy’s record.

"In this kind of form he’ll be relishing facing the defences of Bournemouth, Southampton and Fulham, while Manchester City are hardly water-tight right now and that will be bad news for us with the liabilities building and building on the Swede becoming a record breaker.

“Shearer used to score a variety of goals, but Isak's goal map is dominated by six-yard box finishes with only four of his goals this term being from further out than nine yards.

“If the likes of Bruno Guimaraes, Anthony Gordon and Jacob Murphy can keep supplying him, then Vardy's record could well be in danger.”

Isak’s injury record isn’t the strongest, and while the Swede will of course want to stay fit, his chances of breaking Vardy’s record wouldn’t be hurt if he missed the trip to the Etihad and replaced it with the friendlier home game with Nottingham Forest the week after.

That’s not to say Forest would are pushovers – they’re currently the Premier League’s form team after Newcastle with five wins in their last six – but Isak does have four goals in four games against the Tricky Trees, compared to two in five against City.

It is, as the old saying goes, one game at a time for Newcastle, but their early season struggles when they won just two games in 11 appear to be well behind them. Since the middle of December, they’ve won five games, kept four clean sheets and scored 15 goals and are surging up the table.

Prior to their recent run, Eddie Howe’s side were languishing in the bottom half, 11 points behind Chelsea, but that gap’s now just one point, with two points separating the Toon and Forest.

With the likes of Aston Villa, Tottenham and Manchester United all struggling this season and fifth almost certainly enough to secure UEFA Champions League football, Newcastle may well leap from no European football to eating at the top table next term; if they do, Isak's goals will be crucial.

Any odds displayed were correct at the time of writing and are subject to fluctuation.

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