Honestly he deserves more than applaud because there are also some other players who are close to the bottom of goals scorers because there team is not helping them achieve what they normally score before and they just accept it but for haaland he does the opposite to prove that his club cannot take him back as other teams did to some of there players, though he had more goals last season than in this season but maybe it was there Activeness that fetched him those goals but still he made us proud. Though no matter the stories about him but since he is back now everything has change.
Hope you know that Haaland is still there because Manchester City performance were top notch in the beginning of the season. They never go below third place throughout, Liverpool was doing the same but the difference is that Haaland was scoring goals back to back but Salah who happen to be the top now wasn't consistent until recently, Haaland was even making braces and all that but Salah rarely get 1 goal in a match but his ways improve lately while Manchester City become bad.
I'm not sure exactly when Manchester United will wake up completely from their sober, they are in dark times especially their coach with his wife case. If they can maintain their next match's and be stable, Haaland will be scoring goals from henceforth and with time, he will even out perform Salah and leave him behind because Haaland is very good at making that hatriks and braces, that's how you win in a very tight competition.