[ad_1]
Erling Haaland has scored 47 goals in 48 Bundesliga appearances in a stint of demolition with Borussia Dortmund showing no signs of declining.
In less time than most of us need for lunch, Haaland has scored his first three Bundesliga goals. His 23-minute hat-trick on his debut against Augsburg on January 18, 2020 saw him break Joel Pohjanpalo’s relatively pedestrian half-hour record to recoup his first three strikes for Bayer Leverkusen with free time for dessert . Since then, he has been enjoying himself.
To concern: Haaland’s road to Dortmund
Laughing at the postprandial drowsiness, Haaland swallowed up two braces in back-to-back wins over Cologne and Union Berlin, making him the first player to score seven times in his first three games, eight in his opening five and nine. in his first game. six games. The only surprise was that he didn’t find the back of the net in the ensuing 4-3 loss to Leverkusen, which was – ironically – the first full 90 minutes he played in the league.
Haaland struck again six times before the end of the season, ending 2019/20 Rückrunde on 13 goals in 15 Bundesliga matches – that’s one every 81.7 minutes. In the first half of the campaign, he had scored 14 goals in 16 Austrian Bundesliga appearances for Red Bull Salzburg. His first full season of Bundesliga football continued on the same upward trajectory.
To concern: Secrets of the Haaland striker
Haaland finished third in the 2020/21 scorers’ table – behind Robert Lewandowski (with a record 41) and Andre Silva (28) – with 27 goals in 28 Bundesliga appearances, but placed second in minutes per goal (89). He has never played more than two games without scoring and made history as the first U21 player to reach 40 Bundesliga goals with his end-of-season brace against Leverkusen.
It was his 10th double in the league. He failed to shoot more than once on three of the 14 occasions he was on target. The other – at the Hertha Berlin Olympic Stadium – witnessed Haaland’s four goals in the span of 32 minutes in the second half.
Five appearances in 2021/22, Haaland has hit seven times – three doubles among them – at the rate of one every 64 minutes. Four more assists mean the August Player of the Month had a straight hand in 11 of Dortmund’s 19 league goals between Matchdays 1-7, despite missing the last two with injury. It is also a major contribution to the league before the international break in October.
To concern: Haaland won his fourth Bundesliga Player of the Month award in August 2021
Haaland’s streak in the Bundesliga also translated on the UEFA Champions League stage. With a scoring brace against Sevilla in the 2020/21 round of 16, he became the first player to score more than once in four consecutive Champions League outings, and the fastest to reach 20 goals – in just 14 appearances. Twenty-four games was the previous highest score, held by Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur. Cristiano Ronaldo needed 56 matches.
Haaland also broke Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe’s record for most Champions League goals before the age of 21, while overtaking Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer – his former coach in Molde – as the Norwegian with the most goals in the competition. No one has hit with such consistency since the 2020/21 top scorer and UEFA season forward made his tournament debut for Salzburg in September 2019. He is part of the 2021 / groups. 22.
Haaland’s record in the DFB Cup isn’t too bad either. In six matches, he helped himself to seven goals, including two in the 2020/21 final victory over RB Leipzig. Add his only effort in two DFL Supercups, and that’s 68 goals in 67 outings competing for Die Schwarzgelben. At the same time in his BVB career, Lewandowski had scored 24 times – and was three years older.
“If he keeps working on it, Haaland can be the best striker in the world,” said Lewandowski, who currently holds that particular title under lock and key. “He’s still young, but he’s already scored a lot of goals. You can see in his eyes how hungry he is to score. He’s a huge talent.”
Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski (left) traded goals with Haaland (right) in Der Klassiker. – ANDREAS GEBERT / POOL / AFP via Getty Images
The understatement of the year. At 21, Haaland is a 129 senior goalscorer in 175 appearances for club and country. No player has crossed the 100 career goal mark on European soil at a younger age. In modern circles, only Neymar has reached trebles for goals earlier, albeit for Santos in Brazil.
A physical specimen combining the brute force of Cyberdyne Systems’ Model 101 and the speed of the advanced prototype T-1000 – Haaland was timed with a fifth Bundesliga gear at 22.39 mph – the Haalandator will only be 22 years old when the FIFA World Cup 2022 will take place approx.
If he manages to replicate his Dortmund average of 1.01 goals per competitive game, we might just be talking about a Golden Boot winner – not to mention the future best striker in the world.
Chris Mayer-Lodge
[ad_2]
