Erling Haaland Manchester City - A Too Big, Too Fast Monster

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Erling Haaland Manchester City - More than 3 years ago, a young Norwegian striker once created a hit among football fans when he scored 9 goals in a match of the U20 World Cup tournament.
At that time, the young striker's 9 goals from northern Europe helped him break the league's record for the most goals that a player scored in a game.
Since then, football fans have also begun to pay more attention to a rising star in Europe. The star is expected to become a worthy successor like Ronaldo or Messi. Now, that star is leading the list of top scorers in all the tournaments he attends. He is Erling Haaland.

 

Erling Haaland’s ability since his early career

Turning back to the time of the tournament U20 World Cup in 2000,  Earling Halland is known for getting 9 goals in the win of U20 Norway against U20 Honduras.
The young Norwegian star soon showed his potential thanks to his diverse and extremely accurate finishing ability.
Earling Haaland is also known as the son of former player Alfie Haaland, who played in the Premier League for Liverpool, Alex and Man City with more than 100 matches in the highest division of the country.
At that time, a Norwegian newspaper also said that Erling Haaland competed strongly and fast. He is a scoring machine. He has a huge talent for development and could absolutely become a superstar.
Just over half a year after that, Haaland landed in Borussia Dortmund as one of the world's most anticipated young stars. What the Norwegian star has shown in Abisachborg's shirt is enough for a big club like Dortmund to bring him back to Signal Iduna Park.
Also since that time, Levandowski has himself an extremely formidable opponent in the Bundesliga in the top scorer race. 
Despite going through 2 full seasons with Dortmund, Erling Haaland could not get the title for the player with the most goals in the tournament. But his perfection through the months of getting acquainted with one of the top 5 European leagues makes Haaland the killer that the whole of European football clubs wants to have in their squads. 

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What did people say about Erling Haaland?

When talking about Erling Haaland, Virgil Van Dijk, one of the best central defenders in the world
said: "Focus is always the same for any striker, he has a lot of qualities to make life difficult for defenders.”
Hoco did not hesitate to give good words to Halland, he is still young but already so confident, he also reminds me of Ruud van Nistelrooy, a cool striker.
The talent of Earling Haaland is not only encapsulated in the domestic tournament but has really reached the level of turning football into a nightmare for every defender in Europe. That is also an important reason for Manchester to decide to spend money to bring the Norwegian star back to the Etihad stadium.

At that time, there were doubts that he could only take advantage of the weak position in the domestic Bundesliga and it would be difficult to reach out in a tough arena like the Premier League. But after nearly 2 months since the impressive start of the Premier League, the Norwegian superstar left in the fans' hearts his ability to adapt extremely quickly, surpassing veteran stars of the tournament like Salah, and Harry Kane.
Haaland only needs 7 matches to occupy the top of the top scorer rankings with 11 goals, almost twice as much as the second-placed vulture with only 6 goals. What has made Haaland so dangerous since his move to Man City is the distinct scoring instinct that makes UPL center-backs difficult to capture.
The young Norwegian star doesn't need to really integrate with the same playing style as well as the system that Pep Guardiola has built in the Etihad for the past 5 years. What the former Dortmund star needs to do is promote exactly what he already has. It is his power and the ability to sniff the goal.
We will not need to talk about too many of the top passers that Man City has in their squad, what the citizens lacked during the past years is to empower the front position. They need an attacker who can transform the countless opportunities like Kevin de Bruin and Foden can do in every angle of every game. The Dutch’s goal against the old team Dortmund showed how sensitive the Norwegian striker is and his ability to move and find opportunities for himself.

In that match, Haaland only had one shot on target. It was also the decisive goal to bring 3 points for the home team. It was also the goal that helped the Norwegian star maintain his position in the top-scorer rankings  
Guardiola said: “What a goal.
“I remember, a long long time ago in Barcelona, Johan Cruyff scored one quite similar goal against Atletico Madrid.
“Today, it’s like Erling emulated Johan Cruyff.”

Haaland is always humble in his achievement

It is Haaland who is helping Pep and the Etihad fans have more faith and hope for a turning point this season, especially in the Champions Leagues arena, which they are still extremely thirsty for bringing the trophy to their collection.
At the age of 22, Haaland became the first player in the history of the Champions League cup scoring 25 goals in just 20 appearances. Man City's number 9 also became the youngest player to have 25 goals in this playground, surpassing the record of his own rival, Killianabape. In addition, Haaland also scored in his debut at 3 different clubs: RB Salzburg, Borussia Dortmund, and now Man City.
It is excellent, but he has never felt complacent with his own achievements. And he always strives every day to be able to go further in his career. 

"My dream is to touch the ball five times and score five goals! That's my biggest dream."

"I know what I'm going to do, what I have to do, and this is exactly what I did today in a difficult match. And this is exactly what I will keep doing," said Haaland.
Obviously, Erling Haaland is working hard to turn words into practical actions at the club level, the nordic star has already scored 149 goals in 193 matches in his career at his professional level, which equates to a performance of 0.77 goals a game.
But meanwhile, the national team jersey. The Netherlands has got themselves up to 21 goals after 22 matches when wearing the Norwegian shirt, with a performance of 0.95 goals a game.
Even for the legends of the football village, this is an extremely respectable number for a player who is only 22 years old.
Besides leading the list of top scorers in both the Premier League and Champions League, Haaland is also knowing how to reproduce his very high form in both the Norwegian national team shirt this season.
With 6 goals and an assist, the 22-year-old star is also leading the list of top scorers of the tournament when 2nd place is Mitrovic of the series with 5 goals. Haaland's destructive form is giving the Norwegian national team a great chance to win promotion to League A of the Nations League next season if it gets a favorable result before exactly being in the final series of the group stage.
But besides that, Haaland has also proven to all that how big his influence and role is at both the club and national team.  At the age of 22, he is making a lot of difference. So the older man in the team must feel worried about their position when Man City's number 9 is at the top.

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