Norway suffered with Ivory Coast, but eventually won 2-1 among the top 32 Hungarian time on Tuesday night, so you can prepare for the round of 16 match against the Brazilians. The Norwegians’ second goal was scored by their biggest star, Erling Haaland, although it was more the merit of Oscar Bobb, who started the attack, and Patrick Berg, who passed the ball to the middle, Haaland was only lucky to score the ball. Of course, a goal is a goal, and the Norwegian striker is apparently very good at scoring goals, with this goal he is already at 60 for the national team. With this, he reached this point the fastest since Gerd Müller, it took him only 53 games.
Haaland and Müller both reached 60 goals after about six and a half years of playing for the national team, which sounds pretty harsh, especially since Müller managed this much in even fewer games, with a double in his 48th game. It is loosely related that if we look at the legends before Müller, the Brazilian Pele needed 63 games to do this, that is, Haaland surpassed him, but not Ferenc Puskás and Sándor Kocsis – Puskás scored his 60th goal for the national team in his 52nd game, Kocsis in his 50th, where he then scored two more and thus achieved a hat trick.
Müller was more efficient than all of them, his average of 1.25 goals per game at this point was not matched by Haaland, but 1.13 is still a very high average, none of the currently active players is close to one goal per game. THE Squawka also posted about itthat Haaland is the first player to score in the first three World Cup matches in 72 years, which is not true: in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Cody Gakpo from the Netherlands, and Iszmael Saibari from Morocco, who is also a newcomer, did it in the current World Cup, and both in the group stage. Haaland did not play against the French, so it was his third game against the Ivory Coast at the World Cup.
Of course, Haaland’s performance still needs to be evaluated, and there can be no complaints about his form, he has 5 goals in the World Cup so far, he has scored in 14 of the last 15 matches for the national team, or in other words in the last 13, and scored a total of 25 goals during this time. That’s right, five of those when They beat Moldova 11-1 in one of their World Cup qualifying matches. In order for his series to continue, he will first have to score against Brazil in the round of 16, and based on the results of the two countries against each other, he can actually be optimistic: they have played a total of four times so far, Norway won twice, and it ended in a draw twice.
