Tonight will be one of the defining games of a season. Real Madrid and Manchester City will meet in the first round of the Champions League semifinals at the Santiago Bernabéu. In the painting ‘skyblue’ there is a man reflecting above the others, one has ‘cyborg’ Haaland. City’s scoring beast will play an official match against Real Madrid for the first time. However, this is not an unprecedented rivalry, as in 2019 the Norwegian international faced off against the white team in a pre-season friendly.
The rivalry took place when the striker was still a member of Red Bull Salzburg, a team where he began to stand out as a real scorer. On that occasion, Real Madrid took the cat out of the water with a solitary goal from Eden Hazard. Haaland He came into that rivalry as a formidable opponent, having managed to score as many as 9 goals in a match against the Norwegian U-20 team a few months ago. Despite this, Erling encountered a strong Merengue defense that did not allow him to enjoy clear scoring opportunities.
Four years later, Haaland Faces will be seen again against Madrid. The ‘ogre’ of ‘citizen’ goals arrived in a state of plethoric form and became the top scorer in Premier League history, with 35 goals in his first year. It should be noted that in the highest competition in Europe on the 9th of Pep Guardiola He also left his personal mark, scoring up to a goal scorer in the round of 16 against Leipzig at the Etihad Stadium.
Everything indicates that Erling will be one of the stars of a night in Europe that promises to be exciting. He Madrid will again seek to leave the ditch cityas was the case last year, as the ‘skyblue’ team wants to assert its status as the favorite to reach the long-awaited final of Istanbul.
Source: La Verdad
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