‘Viking’, ‘Daemon Targaryen’ and ‘The Man Boy’ are some of the nicknames of Erling HaalandHowever, the one that best describes it is ‘Android’. The Norwegian striker is a goal machine as he demonstrated once again in the thrashed 7-0 by Manchester City al Leipzig (8-1 global).
The Norwegian was annulled by the Leipzig defense in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, however this Tuesday in the second leg he retaliated against five goals and became the youngest player to exceed three tens with 22 years.
Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin de Bruyne scored the other two goals of the match. Haaland was replaced by coach Pep Guardiola at minute 63.
“When he took me away, I told him that I would have loved to score a double hat trick. I love this competition,” Haaland said in bt sports. “He has scored five in practically 60 minutes. Maybe if I had played 90… Who knows…”Guardiola replied.
With his ‘little hand’ today He reached 33 goals in 25 Champions League games, in four and a half seasons with Red Bull Salzburg, Borussia Dortmund and City. Also, he is along with Lionel Messi and Luis Adriano the only players to have scored five goals in a continental tournament match.
Haaland, the scorer who rose to fame in 2019 for setting the record in World Cups of nine goals in the same game in Norway’s 12-0 rout of Honduras in the Under-20 tournament, continues to make history.
Los ‘Citizens’ paid 60 million euros to Borussia for the striker and now it is quoted in 170 mde, according to the Transfermarkt site. The ‘Android’ has retaliated for every euro invested in it.
In his first season with the team led by Pep Guardiola, the Norwegian Haaland already has 39 annotations in 36 games between Premier League, Champions and English cups.
Inter play Porto in the Champions League
Like Milan against Tottenham last week, the Inter defended his advantage goal in the first leg against Porto and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League. The Portuguese club could not score a single goal against the Italian team in 180 minutes and was eliminated.
Inter and Manchester City joined the Milan, Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Benfica as the two teams qualified for the quarterfinals. The remaining two will come from the Real Madrid (5-2) Liverpool and Napoli (2-0) Frankfurt series.
