Leeds-Manchester City, scheduled for this Wednesday night, will be very special for Erling Haaland. The striker was born in this very city 22 years ago when his father, Alf-Inge, played there, and the opponent’s coach is Jesse Marsch, the American who coached the Norwegian striker at RB Salzburg, in 2018/2019. , before moving to Dortmund.
The good relationship between the two translated into a message they exchanged on the occasion of the announcement of the draw. «He told me that he was very pleased to play in the Saint Stephen against us and I gave him permission to suffer a slight thigh injury that day.”
“He was born here, his father has an important history here and has Leeds in his heart. We talked a lot before I accepted this position,” said Marcelo Bielsa’s replacement (signed in February).
