Sam Surridge quit after half a season, despite his intense desire to become Stoke City’s long-awaited regular goal scorer.
Sam Surridge has risen to the top of the MLS scoring lists with ten goals in six games.
Before picking up speed in the spring and then a few more towards the end of May, the 26-year-old former Stoke City striker had a bit of a poor start to the 2025 season, scoring one goal in his first seven games.
Before finding his rhythm a month later, he scored four goals in a 7-2 thumping of the Chicago Fire at the end of April. He has scored in a 2-0 victory over Chicago, a hat-trick in a 3-2 victory over New England, two goals in a tie with Columbus Crew, two goals in a draw with New York City, two goals in a victory over Toronto, and the game-winning goal against DC United last night.
Nashville is now in third place in the Eastern Conference, two points behind table-topping Philadelphia and one point behind Cincinnati, thanks to eight of its goals during that run that have come away from home. He presently leads the league’s second top scorer, Tai Baribo of Philadelphia, by three goals, while Eric Choupo-Moting, a fellow Potter who is currently with the New York Red Bulls, is tied for third place with eleven.
Michael O’Neill brought Surridge from Bournemouth to Stoke in the summer of 2021, but he found it difficult to fit in and was about to sign a loan deal with Cardiff the following January when Nottingham Forest’s striker problem forced him to transfer there permanently.
He helped Forest achieve promotion to the Premier League by scoring seven crucial goals in 20 games, although he struggled for playing time at the time and immigrated to the US in 2023. He scored 15 goals in 32 games the previous season, and despite playing 12 less games this time, he has already eclipsed that total. Steve Guppy, a former winger for Stoke and Port Vale, is one of his coaches.
Nashville summed up his form today with the following article on their website: “Surridge became the first player in Nashville SC history to score in six consecutive MLS games, recording 10 goals in that stretch, with his Golden-boot leading 16th regular season goal of the year.
The attacker is the first player to score ten goals in six games since Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Josef Martinez in 2019, making him only the eighth player and first Englishman to accomplish so in MLS history. When the MVP candidate scores, the Boys in Gold are 7W-0L-2D this season and 13W-2L-3D overall.
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