2026/27 EARLY PREVIEW

Six on the board. Two more steps to take?

E. Haaland leads the recorded chase with goals in six consecutive Manchester City club fixtures, but Brighton & Hove Albion cannot yet be billed as his next step towards eight. First comes the trip to Aston Villa on Saturday 24 October.

Score there and the run reaches seven; score again when City host Brighton on Saturday 31 October at 15:00 and eight comes into view. Fail to score against Villa and the six-game sequence ends before this preview window even opens.

The existing run has taken in Crystal Palace, Coventry City, Manchester United, Sunderland, Liverpool and Ipswich Town. That is the foundation already recorded, not permission to count the next two fixtures as goals.

Jamie Vardy's benchmark remains 11 consecutive scoring games from 2015/16. Even the best-case eight would leave Haaland three scoring fixtures short of drawing level, with a twelfth required to move beyond the record.

Can Mbeumo carry the spark to Chelsea?

B. Mbeumo's recorded run stands at two after scoring against Tottenham Hotspur and Leeds United. Manchester United's home fixture against Bournemouth on Sunday 25 October decides whether that sequence travels to Chelsea intact.

A goal against Bournemouth would make it three; another away to Chelsea on Saturday 31 October at 12:30 would make it four. Chelsea is the only United fixture listed inside this edition's five-day window.

There is a useful distinction between a streak gathering momentum and a record challenge taking shape. Four would be progress worth watching, but Vardy's 11 would remain a distant marker rather than the immediate story.

The same gate, a different direction

Evanilson also has two consecutive scoring club fixtures recorded, against Chelsea and Sunderland. His next hurdle is the other side of that Manchester United-Bournemouth meeting on 25 October.

Both Mbeumo and Evanilson can extend their individual runs in the same match; neither player's progression requires his team to win. The measure is a credited goal, not the result.

If Evanilson scores at United, Bournemouth's home game against Leeds United on Saturday 31 October at 15:00 becomes an opportunity to reach four. Without that intervening goal, the existing two-game run cannot be carried forward into the Leeds preview.

Can Rudoni keep the climb moving?

J. Rudoni completes the current watchlist after scoring in Coventry City's fixtures against Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur. Coventry host Fulham on Saturday 24 October before entertaining Sunderland a week later.

The Sunderland fixture, listed for 15:00 on Saturday 31 October, offers a route to four only if Rudoni first scores against Fulham. As with the other shorter runs, the next milestone matters more than dressing two games up as an imminent assault on 11.

Earn Thursday's billing first

All four players have one listed fixture inside the game week, each on Saturday 31 October. None has a second in-window opportunity to add another step before Monday ends.

This is an early watchlist, not a settled Thursday leaderboard: intervening results can remove these runs, change their lengths or bring different players into contention. The final edition needs fresh evidence before any of those conditional routes can become its starting point.