The Haaland phenomenon and his admiration for Cristiano Ronaldo
At 19 years of age Erling Haaland is the new whooping cough of European football and its numbers keep on surprising. The former Salzburg striker brought his striking streak to Dortmund and does not appear to be feeling the weight of his new jersey.
Haaland came to the rescue before PSG
As expected, we had an exciting match last Tuesday with PSG visiting Signal Iduna Park to face Borussia Dortmund.
In a very close match where the goals were delayed, it ended up being the young Norwegian to open the active in the second half, however, the Paris team reacted well and would come to draw shortly afterwards.
This forced the home team to look for a new goal that would emerge through the sensational Haaland who delivered a real missile at the entrance to the area for French networks.
Dozens of goals in the Champions League debut season!
This should probably be an unprecedented feat in the history of the competition. Erling Haaland has already scored 10 goals in the current edition of the Champions League and only the Polish Robert Lewandowski (also 10) has managed to keep in touch with the young Norwegian.
Haaland contributed strongly to the good campaign of RB Salzburg in the group stage, which, however, would not be enough to qualify for the Round of 16, with the Austrian club having fallen to the Europa League.
In any case, his eight goals in just six matches have given Borussia Dortmund a point not to hesitate to hire his services for a measly 20 million euros.
In a season in which we have already seen João Félix leave for an exorbitant 126 million euros, the price Dortmund paid the Austrians seems to have been an authentic ‘business in China’ for the Germans who will have received one of the new pearls of world football for an honest amount. low.
And his performance since arriving at Dortmund has been truly exceptional with nine goals in just six domestic matches, and now two more in his debut in the Champions League with the Borussia shirt.
Admiration for Cristiano Ronaldo
The young Norwegian player seems to have Cristiano Ronaldo as his main model of player and, in fact, some of his characteristics seem to have been extracted from Portuguese.
Haaland scored two goals against PSG, to be sure, but one of the moments of the game was also his incredible area-to-area sprint in which he apparently covered 60 meters in 6.64 seconds.
Like Ronaldo, the young Haaland has advantageous physical characteristics to do sublime things and, if he follows in the footsteps of his idol, he can perfectly make a continuous evolution throughout his career to become a footballer of choice in a few years.
The Dortmund striker recently gave an interview where he stated that he ‘loved to meet him (CR7) and tell him that I am a footballer thanks to him. For me, he was always a model ‘.
Well, given what he has done in his debut season at the highest level in Europe, I think his idol should be proud of him, after all Haaland continues with stratospheric figures.
39 goals and eight assists in 29 matches are numbers worthy of Cristiano Ronaldo, and the young Norwegian is still only 19 years old so he could become one of the new candidates for the individual awards that Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have shared over the past decade .
Yes, it is probably too early to say whether this is an exceptional season for the player, or whether this will be the Norwegian’s usual income pattern, but for now, he has dazzled the football world and is clearly among the most promising players on the planet.
Bundesliga in thought
In the 2rd position of the table with 25 points from the leader Bayern, Lucien Favre’s team needs to continue on the winning track.
