This Wednesday, an important Premier League Arsenal-Manchester City will be held, a pending match where Pep Guardiola’s team, if they win, will reach Mikel Arteta at the top of the table, although the ‘Gunners’ will still have a match that is also pending. . And at the Emirates Stadium it will take place a duel between two great Norwegian figures, Martin Odegaard for Arsenal and Erling Haaland for City.
In the Norwegian team, Odegaard feeds Haaland’s assists. This Wednesday the midfielder and the striker are on opposite sides. One, Odegaard, now Arsenal’s captain, left his country in 2015 to sign for Real Madrid. The other, Haaland, did so in 2019 to join Salzburg, where he jumped to Borussia Dortmund.
Currently, at the age of 22, Haaland shines in the City and is the great figure in Norway, followed by Odegaard, 24. Odegaard is one of the keys to Arsenal’s leadership of a Premiership the ‘gunners’ dream of winning for the first time since 2003-04. So far the midfielder has 8 goals and 7 assists. In 2014, Odegaard, together with Stromsgodset, became, At 15 years and 118 days, he is the youngest player to debut in the Norwegian First Division.
Haaland has 25 goals in this Premier, which speaks for itself. He made the jump to City last summer from a Dortmund team where he became one of the great sensations in the world of football. He scored 41 ‘goals’ in the 2020-21 season. For Wednesday against Arsenal it is doubtful after suffering a blow in Sunday’s game against Aston Villa.
Odegaard and Haaland are the great inspiration for Norwegian footballfor all levels and of course for children who are starting to play this sport.
Source: La Verdad
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