{"id":28650,"date":"2025-01-05T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=28650"},"modified":"2025-01-05T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T16:46:09","slug":"liam-delap-premier-league-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/liam-delap-premier-league-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"No English Striker Has Scored More Premier League Goals This Season Than Liam Delap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Liam Delap continued his fine start to the season after he scored his first goal of the New Year on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old rattled home a second-half penalty as Ipswich Town and Fulham played out an entertaining 2-2 draw at Craven Cottage.<\/p>\n<p>That point was so very nearly three for the Tractor Boys who were pegged back by Raul Jimenez&#8217;s late spot-kick. Amazingly, three penalties were given in west London.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez&#8217;s first also came from 12 yards. Sammie Szmodics gave Kieran McKenna&#8217;s side the lead when he fired home after 38 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was Delap&#8217;s effort that saw his stock continue to rise. No English striker has scored more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/premier-league-barclays-era-deep-dive\/\">Premier League<\/a> goals in 2024\/25 than the former Manchester City star.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No English striker has scored more Premier League goals this season than Liam Delap \ud83d\udc4a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4NlQCCXiIl\">pic.twitter.com\/4NlQCCXiIl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/footballontnt\/status\/1875930229602181357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Liam Delap Premier League Goals 2024\/25<\/h2>\n<p>After netting in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/fulham-vs-ipswich-highlights-premier-league\/\">2-2 draw at Fulham<\/a>, Liam Delap has now scored eight Premier League goals this season. He is one ahead of Tottenham&#8217;s Dominic Solanke.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, no player aged 21 or under in England&#8217;s top-flight has more goal contributions than the Ipswich Town man. Delap has 10 G\/A in total.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 21-year-old is still a way off catching Cole Palmer. The Chelsea star has 13 goals and an impressive six assists in England&#8217;s elite this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Delap has continued to shine in a struggling Tractor Boys team in 2024\/25. His first goal actually came against the Cottagers in the reverse fixture at Portman Road in August.<\/p>\n<p>Delap followed that up with a fine brace against Aston Villa in a 2-2 draw in September. Since then, he has netted against West Ham, Brentford and Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>Delap also got on the scoresheet in the fine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/ipswich-chelsea-premier-league-highlights\/\">2-0 win over Chelsea<\/a> on gameweek 19. If Kieran McKenna&#8217;s side are to pull off the Great Escape, it&#8217;ll be due to the exploits of the England U21 striker.<\/p>\n<p>According to the best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/betting-sites\/football\/\">football betting sites<\/a> in the UK, last season&#8217;s EFL Championship runners-up are 4\/6 to be relegated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Delap continued his fine start to the season after he scored his first goal of the New Year on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 The 21-year-old rattled home a second-half penalty as Ipswich Town and Fulham played out an entertaining 2-2 draw at Craven Cottage. 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