Haaland broke the curse

The name of Erling Haaland This is often associated with breaking records. However, in front of Bayern Munich The Norwegian ‘killer’ has a curse: he lost the seven matches in which he faced the German champion, all of them in his previous phase in Borussia Dortmund -five from the Bundesliga and two German Super Cups-.

A negative record that was broken this Tuesday at the Etihad Stadium, where the City of Manchester clearly imposed itself on Bayern in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals to put a leg and a half into the semifinals.

Haalandwho in his seven previous fights with Bayern was able to penetrate the Bavarian goal up to five times, quickly fenced the goal of Yann Sommer.

His was the first warning of the night, a heel left-footed shot after four minutes that went over the crossbar. Near the end of the first quarter of an hour, the outstanding ‘Pichichi’ of the Premier League -with 30 goals in 27 days- gave the first serious scare to summerwho was a few centimeters from the goal line was forced to clear the ball as best he could before the intense pressure of his own Haaland.

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The ‘citizen’s’ dominance continued and midway through the first half, Haaland there is the clearest when the shot is aimed at the hands of summer after being left by Oily. After going to the locker room, 1-0 on the scoreboard, the Scandinavian grabbed the goal again on a mistake by summer with the feet he had to carry kimchicrossing ‘in extremis’ to avoid 2-0.

Fourth assist in the Champions

It will come in 70′ by Bernardo Silvawho led a shipment of Haalandwho thus achieved his fourth assist in the Champions League.

The goals take a few more. Nothing more and nothing less than 34 in 26 games was all he did to put the final 3-0. The ‘Cyborg’ of cityauthor of 45 goals in his 39 games as ‘skyblue’, took advantage of a scoring error upamecano to expand his legend in the Champions League and break his curse on Bayern.

Beat Van Nistelrooy and Salah

But as we said at the beginning, the Haaland Breaking records. And against the Munich team it was no exception. In his goal, he surpassed 44 of Ruud van Nistelrooy (2002-03, Manchester United) and Mohamed Salah (2017-18, Liverpool) who became the first Premier League player to score 45 goals in a season in all competitions. One more… And the rest.