– Ouch, ouch ouch. This wild journey just continues, exclaimed TV 2’s commentator Øyvind Alsaker. Because the clock showed only 6 minutes and 50 seconds when Erling Braut Haaland did what he usually does: scored a goal. This time in the Champions League meeting against FC Copenhagen at home on their own turf. The goal was also the 22-year-old’s first touch of the ball in the match. On the sidelines, manager Pep Guardiola just shook his head. And the internet, as usual, boiled over with admiration. “It’s getting a little silly now. Makes scoring goals look absurdly easy,” tweeted attacking legend Gary Lineker. Photo: Screenshot, Twitter Wild statistics It was Haaland’s 27 Champions League goals in 22 games. But that statistic only lasted 26 minutes. Then the number was 28 goals. Sergio Gómez’s shot from long range. Keeper Kamil Grabara had to return – right into the legs of the Norwegian. Then he is ahead of, among others, the top scorer Luis Suárez. And according to Duncan Alexander on Twitter, who works for the analysis tool Opta Analyst, with it he has actually already scored 1 percent of all City’s goals in the Premier League and the Champions League. It was 3-0 to Manchester City at the break. after Davit Khocholava put the ball in his own net for the Danes. But Haaland of course grabbed the headlines. In TV 2’s studio they showed that he had only had 11 touches on the ball in the first 45 minutes. – When the ball doesn’t go in, you think “what really happened there”? He has so few touches that I would think he is more tired after an average training session than after playing a match, says TV 2’s expert Erik Thorstvedt. When the teams returned to the pitch after the break, it was without Haaland. He was replaced in favor of the slightly more unknown Cole Palmer.
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